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(( Wait. You said a teal haired person was taking care of Leaf before, which is why I assumed Alihi, when you could have been talking about Ninian...
I'm confusing myself. D: ))

Alihi jumped, startled by the voice. "Aah!" She turned around to face the man who was talking to her. "Uhm... Yeah, I guess it is beautiful, in an eerie sort of way..." She glanced back out the window, as if staring could bring the people she was thinking of to the doorstep. She turned back to Lance.
"My name's Alihi, by the way." She smiled softly. "What's yours?"

(Back from School) Aran was applying a Vulnary to his right arm, his other wounds were bad, but they wouldn't get infected. He took account to all the people coming in, he heard Tibarn saying that some of the members hadn't gotten in yet. He got up to go get some water, his throat was dry.

+It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
`Toys in every store.
`But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be.
+On your own front door.

(( I meant Ninian for taking care of Leaf, since Ninian offered to take care of him when Finn wanted to help out but since it got locked, we couldn't really come to a conclusion with that, and I meant Ayra earlier, but I never finished her name so that's understandable x_x ))

"Alihi...what a splendid name, it suits your lovely self well! Cheery, with a tint of a mysterious taste unlike any other!" he said as he energetically waved his arms and hands around, gesturing all the time he talked. "As for my name, I go by the name of Lance Dartel. Used to be a wanted man around Elibe, so maybe it would ring a bell somewhere. But my, what a fine lady! Not prejudiced at all, even when faced with a man with a face as crooked as this! Though I do say, I have quite acceptable features, it's just that these accessories to my face do tend to rub people the wrong way!" he said smilingly as he pointed to his most distinguishable features; his almost golden glowing eyes and his scar across his left eye.

Suffice to say though, Lance himself got surprised at the sudden cloak-lift, and flinched a bit the girl's yell. "My my, here's another interesting fellow! I just introduced myself, and I believe I already got your name! A pleasure to meet the two of you!"

+It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
`Toys in every store.
`But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be.
+On your own front door.

Amelia stirred, finally, as she heard someone yell, and then Alihi's loud voice pierced her sleep and snapped her awake. She did what she could to fall back asleep, but it didn't come. She sighed and stretched out, yawning. Her skirt and shirt, what she wore underneath her armor, were comfortably dry now from the warmth of both the blankets and the fire, and her hair was dry, albeit a bit matted and horribly frizzy from all the melting and then drying ice.

She sat up, letting the blankets cocoon around the air on the floor as she saw Aran apply a Vulnerary, then disappear to to the kitchen. Amelia rubbed her eyes and looked around. More people had arrived, it seemed, while she was asleep. How long had she slept? Or had they all arrived in minutes? She pulled herself to her feet, making sure to smooth down her polo shirt and skirt so they didn't stick up and reveal anything awkward.

"Morning," she mumbled to no one in particular, not bothering to change the phrase for whatever time of day it happened to be now. "How many people are here right now? Or... missing is probably a better question... who's not here?"

Blossom decided to keep herself busy by cooking in the kitchen. A very large pot had been slapped down onto the stovetop, and now she was at work at simmering away a pot of bubbling broth, chunks of beef cooking away in the liquid. A nice, hot stew would be the perfect thing to warm up everyone's insides as much as their outsides, right? And cooking was something she could do quite well. Blossom chopped a carrot, humming a nameless song off-tune under her breath. She had detached herself from what was going on at the moment; it was her way of handling crises. To completely distance herself from it, at least for a little while, helped her to collect herself and not completely lose it. Whether or not it was the best way of dealing with bad situations, it worked for her. She continued with the stew, picking up a potato and peeling it briskly.

Blossom nearly dropped her knife as she heard Aidan's familiar voice in the hallway. "Aidan!" she screamed, literally dropping it now (into the sink and not onto the floor, of course; she was rushed, not stupid) and letting the potato roll to a stop on the cutting board before rushing to where the voice had come from. Completely bypassing Huey and Rie for the time being, she hurtled right into him, hugging him tight, icy clothes and all. "Thank goodness you -- all three of you! -- are okay!"

She pulled away after a short amount of time and looked at the siblings, then the pegasus. "I'll get blankets!" she shouted, rushing to the main room. She scooped up the dropped articles with a brief notification of "Huey, Aidan, and Rie are here!" before rushing back over to them. She draped two of the blankets over Huey's back, then gave one to Aidan and one to Rie.

"Go sit in front of the fire! Quickly! You guys look freezing," she told them worriedly. "I'm trying to get some stew made now, I'll hurry up with it, all right? So go warm up."