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Lumena Town Square

Giggling, Emelia just smiled at the new witch. "You've gotten more powerful Rajih. That is- good. Better then being a little weak witchling." As Theo was pushed into her arms, she was content to simply let it happen. "Aw, a gift Rajih? You're too sweet, even for me." His reaction thrilled her. While it wasn't as..explosive as she'd like, she'd still gotten a rise from him. Pausing to smile at his companions, she felt it was time to introduce herself. "I'm Emelia, as our lovely Rajih said. It's a treat to meet you all." Glancing to the majin witch she wished she could have tease him more.
These were just the types he'd end up eating one day. Poor boy.

Did she care that a Reaper was near? Oh, never. Especially not-
"Well now, your a sight for sore eyes." The witch eater smiled at Ophelia. "I hope you'll forgive me for missing you earlier, after all-" the smile turned wicked, "-I tend forget those who irritate me." Moving away from Theo, she wound her hands behind her back. "Tell me, are you doing your job today or are you on a vacation?" It was a nasty remark, but so was Emelia at times. "A wild witch eater isn't very good for-" She paused, trying to find the right word. "Business."
Waving her hand in the air she dismissed it like it was nothing. "I'm just here for some shopping as usual. Some supplies, maybe explore the city. But with the weather I honestly would just prefer to be at home cooking."

Moving to Ophelia she smiled, this time with less malice. "Would you like a secret?" Not pausing she whispered to the Reaper. "No smart witch eater would be causing this much off a commotion." A step back and a smile. "It's just in bad form and all that."

As Rajih dragged her off she was grinning like mad. "Oh Rajih! Is this a date? If so I humbly accept!"
She did want a free meal after all.

Lumena Town Square

Ophelia watched silently as Theo spoke to Emelia. As brash as he was normally, he seemed particularly prickly towards her. And despite being a Reaper, the tension building only made her more nervous. She couldn't even distract herself by wondering who Theo was taken by. She looked from the blue witch to Rajih as they leaned in to speak, feeling awkward as she could only just make out a few words from their whispers.

Any talk about the ball slipped her mind now, hoping that a scene wouldn't erupt from this. That Emelia or Theo wouldn't start a fight or something and get the attention of every Reaper around. She glanced at Lycander and Requiem, barely catching his quiet introduction. Her eyes lingered on them, seeing their discomfort as well. The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end as everyone seemed unnerved. Could they all tell she was a witch eater?

When Emelia's eyes finally landed on Ophelia, her heartbeat quickened slightly, but she held her gaze. She seemed to have no qualms about announcing what she was. Her natural confidence, something that Ophelia had to pretend she had, made the young reaper envious. "If I had a job today, we wouldn't be talking, would we?" she said, forcing her voice steady. Emelia had already proven herself to be stronger than Ophelia. She was smart, as well, and every bit the dangerous kind of majin. But even then, the reaper didn't want to fight her. She had no grudges against majin of any kind, believing only that witch eaters were threats that needed to be controlled.

But on a more personal level, Emelia had hinted on something bordering humanity at their last meeting. But even Ophelia knew this wasn't the right time to continue that conversation, and simply said nothing as the witch eater leaned in to whisper to her. At least she wasn't the one everyone was talking about. But she wasn't sure whether that was a good thing or not.

Ophelia let out a sigh long held in as Rajih took her away. But her eyes followed him as long as they could. The worry she had for that boy was beginning to give her a headache as she took a few sips of her coffee.

"S..so what about you two?" she said, hoping to lighten the tension and turning to Lycander and Requiem. "Are you guys going to the ball?" She added, though her eyes kept searching for Rajih. She didn't feel right leaving him alone with that majin.

Graveyard didn't mind the annoyed look. She did have a way with either making the dragon either annoyed with her or friendly annoyed. She thought he was a cute grumpy dragon anyways, whether he liked it or not. Though he might not be able to see it but, a lot of girls and some boy's did notice that he had a attractive scowl. But she didn't mention that as she too rested herself on the wall.

When Ruria walked away, Gravy raised a eyebrow curiously before looking at her friend. "Well....All she wanted to touch was your scythe. But it was a such a cute doll, I am surprised that you didn't fall for her cute charm." Graveyard smiled softly, she had her own fondness for cuteness after all. Ruria fell under it, as did Theo and Chanda. They we're all cute little witchlings and witches after all.

"Yep Patrol! Though I am not sure why I was called here. I specialize in divination and healing. What good would I do if a Witch Eater decided I was next course on the meal?" Graveyard rested her chin in her hand as she looked at the gathering of people in the square. When Miusa walked in though, she felt a odd tingling of powerful old magic before she shrugged it off. Her skills with divination always had the power to alert her when another of power came into play. She recognized the Sage only by reputation alone as she talked to another black heart and Mononoke reaper. her eyes only laid on the group for moments before she felt the stir of a witch eater. A pink haired girl was being dragged away from another group by a teal haired witch that quirked a curious eyebrow. She failed to mention though to Cruor though that there was in fact two witch eaters in the square, along with many Majin. No need to get him worried over something simple as a gathering. Though to be safe she let her magic flow from her body to the square setting up a invisible net. If a witch eater or Majin decided to act with their magic, she would be the first to counter it and alert the reapers. She was abruptly quiet as she weaved the spell before breathing out.

"Ah, Orders from above always make me wonder who plays the strings." She hummed a agreement over being out of plain sight. One like Cruor was indeed more effective when he was in his natural zone.

"Well, I suppose we will make the best of what we can now." She turned to smile at him before brow furrowing in thought. "While we are on the talk of duty though..." She smiled up at him, tapping her lip, "Do you want to be my date for the Hallow's Eve ball tomorrow night? I'm going to be stationed there as a early...alarm system of sorts and wouldn't mind a strapping strong dragon to protect my back." She turned her amethyst eyes up to his, a mischievous twinkle added to her even more mischievously coy grin.

She twiddled a piece of a feather strewn through her locks as she felt the final remnants of the spell she cast settle over the square, pleased with her handiwork before she looked up at the dragon. He was watching her carefully now wasn't he. She smiled softly at him.

"It is true, Though I am no reaper or black heart, I do understand that your kind takes very extra percautions with your magical items. If it was to be put into comparison terms. Your scythe is like my familier, molded from you alone for you to weild after all." She hummed as she continued to stroke the feather. "No interest in cute things? My my, and here I took you for a charmer Cruor, a man after the ladies hearts." She winked at him before straightening on the wall.

"Well for now, I am quite content to keep chatting with you. If you don't mind." Her ears perked and swayed with conversations she could barely hear before settling, Her magic it seemed to have affected the Dragon. "It's a simple spell for making sure that should someone attempt a magical attack, I would take the brunt force and act as a alarm for the reapers. It can also be used as a pinpoint for magics stemming from a Majin seed instead of a witches heart." She smiled again, looking at the dragon. "Should you fear that me distracting you with conversation from your watch, It's a simple spell my friend." She cocked her head as she could hear his mental thoughts clicking in his head. To those specilized in dinivination, people watching was another skill, and she could tell her friend was troubled with some sort of thought. Her hand reached out automatically to pat him on the cheek. "We all know what the reapers do. We do not all agree but that is the law of our land. It is a good thing they called a few Ars Lilium though. Though It seems that I am the only one in the near area for now." She sighed.

Her ears drooped a little at his clear distaste for the question of being her date but she was persistent and knew how to play the dragon back. "And if it was your orders? You must remember that I am the only Ars Lilium stationed at the moment for Lumena with skills that would rival a sage in divination. I need a bodyguard but I have a hard time trusting these hardened Reapers. What if one decided that I was a nuisance in a battle and ended up killing me instead?" She waved her hand, "Better for me to have someone I know and trust. Second! You don't have to dance...a lot. And I'll help you. Third. There is plenty of shops around, you don't have to be overly fancy silly." She patted his cheek again before taking a breath, "Well that's just downright insulting. And here I had some sort of appeal as a woman. I feel I must pretty myself up now and then attempt to woo you again!" She noticed the bright red on his cheeks before smiling softly at him, "I would be more comfortable there Cruor, If you were at my side to count on."

Kalypso smiled and shook hands with Cedar. "Hi nice to meet you Cedar." She turned toward Lea. "My first time here is going ok. It's not so bad as I thought it would be. I should try to see more places."

Kalypso looked around the square again. It was getting kinda crowded. She try to remember that anyone of these people can be the culpit of all the murders. Hopefully with all these people here the person behind all these murders wouldn't dare try to attack anyone. For the first time that made Kalypso happy to be in a crowd of people instead of freaking out.

"So are you two looking forward to the ball?" She had to keep talking to keep her mind off all the bad stuff. She looked over to see another mononoke with a ribbon on his tail looking their way. "Oh look another mononoke, I think he's a feline like you Lea." She watched the other mononoke and try to decipher his emotions. "I think he's curious about you." She started moving her arms up in the air trying to get the other mononoke's attention.

Location: Lumena Town Square

It was just so easy to lose oneself in a conversation like this and forget why they had all gathered here in Lumena in the first place (maybe not for Cedar but at least Lea could vouch with a fair amount of certainty for the Makai Academy students) or the very reason why so many reapers and Black Hearts were patrolling the streets. There it was again. That reaper stationed right outside the bakery and the one who had just walked past. They were staring at him as if they were expecting him to do something. Possibly a random thing. Nothing to get nervous or unsettled about since they were simply doing their job. The brown-haired mononoke rationalized with himself. Besides, it wasn't as if he was a majin, much lest a witch eater.

"Ah... so you're the prodigal child in the family then? I'm pretty sure that your parents must have been very proud of you." There was a melancholic look in Lea's eyes as he addressed the young olive-eyed witch then, memories of his own past surfacing in his mind briefly before he willed them back to wherever they had come from. He had Kei and Lulu now so there was little need for him to reminisce over something that he could absolutely do nothing about. "It's really alright." Lea shook his head quickly, not wanting Cedar to think that he had found her rude with her earlier words. "So what have you been doing ever since you graduated from the academy?" Cedar. Lea smiled to himself at the image of the tree that instantly came to mind. An apt name that certainly fit her to the T. Her parents had indeed chose well. "Just... Lea will do, Cedar."

He didn't need Kalypso to bring the other mononoke boy to his attention since it was only a matter of time till Lea decided to indulge in his own curiosity and glance around for the source of the soft jingling that his ears had picked up on. "We still have quite a bit of time to do some exploring since the ball isn't until the day after tomorrow Kalypso." Still, it was probably a good thing that she did anyway otherwise he wouldn't really know where to look with the crowd that had gathered within their immediate vicinity. "I'm not really sure to be honest, but I suppose there's always a first time for everything. Will you be attending the ball as well Cedar?" Ah... so there he was. Kalypso was right. Those features of his... could they be those of a cat's? His ears began to twitch at the jingling sound carried by the draft once again, his curiosity now piqued as he made eye contact with the boy in a silent invitation for him to join them. A Makai Academy uniform. He really had to wonder if they were in the same year as well.

"Yeah you could say that. And they were. " She smiled at him. She had been talking all about herself. She rocked back and forth on her feet before answering the next question. "I went home to help with the farm. My parents recently passed away, so things needed to change, and so I moved to Maksi's town to sell the produce. I essentially sold the farm to someone that could better manage that area of it, and I'm running a store front." She nodded, and then looked over at Kalypso.

"Your first time? I hadn't been here since school, I had been meaning too..." She thought to herself. Because of school she did a lot of things, and saw places. "Oh the ball. I am actually. I was sick when the ball came around while I was at the Academy. But I had been meaning to find out.. Do we need to have partners to attend?" She blinked, and then looked over to where the other two were looking.

"Really my lucky day." As she glanced over the others features the urge to play with ears and tails crept up again. "He's got bells." She didn't need to do much since the others had already invited him over.