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Lance squeaked quietly turning a ridiculous shade of red. While he wasn't opposed to the kisses, they still were in company of others who might not wanna see the two gushing over reach other. So when the kiss broke, Lance made a strangled noise and just hid himself in Alistair's neck and hair.

Gabriel might have let go, but Des didn't. "..You still look a bit pale.."

Qiuyue hadn't been expecting the hot chocolate to fill her tummy up as much as it did by the time she was half way through the cup's content, the already cold beverage no longer appetizing as she made her way through the crowd to dispose of it in a bin when the organizers of the moon pie eating contest declared an intermission in view of the lunar eclipse taking place proper. She still hadn't gotten her hands on a moon pie yet but she wasn't overtly concerned about that since the festivities were supposed to go on late into the night. There would be plenty of time to check out the stalls later on.

Like many others around her, the moon overhead had her full attention as she counted down along with them the remaining seconds till the eclipse itself. The eclipse happened, a pretty sight to behold it was until she found her attention ensnared by something that struck her as odd, uttering a soft gasp as she took a few steps back from the queer little creature, her arms flailing from her instinctive attempt to swat it away. "G... get away..!" She backed into something or someone, the sensation barely registering in her mind before she lost her footing and finally fell on her bum. What... was that?

(I will post for ********* much later, just need to get this up before I vanish for the majority of the weekend ~ <3 )

Phil had decided their route would take them to one of the vendor booths, where he was momentarily attempting to flirt with cute employee manning the station.

Ellie was not exactly thrilled about this turn of events. She was casually looking through the wares in an attempt to ignore the disgusting display of blatant flirting. It's like reading the novelization of the world's worst pick-up lines out loud, she mused.

At some point the girl pointed out how the moon was finally shaded by the eclipse, and naturally both Phil and Ellie ended up looking up.

It was an odd feeling for Ellie, if only because the full remains of the Moon Kingdom were now being masked. However, the longer she gazed, the more clear that some fuzzy specs became.

At first she assumed it was just her eyes telling her that staring at the moon straight on could hurt one's eyes. However, the closer the unexplained came, the larger it grew.

...the f*ck...? Rabbits from the Moon...?

The blonde was no expert on culture, so the irony was lost on her. However, before she even had a chance to swipe a hand at the odd winged rabbit, it had pressed a paw upon her forehead, then vanished.

It almost felt as if the wind was taken from her lungs and for a moment she had to steady herself upon a nearby table. She managed to maintain her usual tough appearance with help from that table.

Her companion for the evening was a bit less discreet about his experience "...Dude... Ellie... what th'hell was that? Am I trippin' or were those rabbits?" He looked to the vendor, then looked to Ellie as if to get confirmation.

The vendor seemed to shy away, seeming more confused than anything.

Ellie just narrowed her eyes at him. He saw it too?

However, she decided it might not be the best idea to tell him what she had seen. "...dude... I thought you said you didn't drink anything before we left.... rabbits?" A brow lofted in his direction.

"...okay... what th'f*ck did you drink before we left?"

The redhead turned slightly red before turning away. "...well I had a can of beer... but that stuff's just water..."

He kicked his foot to the ground and soon enough just moved along, since the girl he had been pursuing had abandoned him. Ellie followed, but paused for a moment to look back up to the moon.

...the f*ck just happened...? was the one question she had lingering around in her mind.

Alistair frowned slightly, gently combing his fingers through Lance's hair. "Embarrassed, darling?" He asked. "I didn't mean to upset you."

"Really, I'm okay," Gabriel said, taking a swig of water and taking deep breaths. It was an attack of paranoia of the worst sort, and something like this hadn't happened to him for a very long time. Besides, he had to have faith. If something was coming of this, Chaos was ready. They had to be.

Sheena grinned when she was picked up by Peter and wasn't at all bothered by the camera, but instead looked at it intently wanting to play with it but knowing she couldn't not at the moment. She went up onto his shoulder at his suggesting and settled there. It was probably the oddest sight to see two cats sitting upon shoulders in a crowd of people. Impressive really, to anyone who just though them trained cats.

She turned to *********> and gave her a mewed greeting before watching as Peter held up his camera to get a look at the eclipse. Her own little head turning skyward to view the eclipse before she was distracted from it by a glowing sparkle which she swatted at, causing her to fall right off Peter's shoulder as he made an attempt to catch one.

She landed a bit roughly, but no worse for wear next to Peter's net and watched as she raised it up, but frowned before looking from Peter to ********* because the thing was gone. Her glance held very brief questioning and curiosity before she remember where she was and hopped back up on Peter's shoulder.

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Chris held out his hand for the turkey leg as requested, but watched warily as Paris pulled out her phone, not quite knowing what she was going to do. “You’re not being mean, are you?” he mumbled, although there wasn’t much he could do to stop her. They might be married, but Paris was entirely capable of fighting her own battles… battles which Chris would like to stand back from so as not to take any collateral damage.

Thankfully it didn’t seem to be much more than a rude gesture sent via text, and Chris allowed himself to relax a little. He would much rather not have an actual fight break out amidst team members.

“Paris, you’re going to miss the eclipse,” he tried getting her attention, glancing up as the sky began to darken. He shifted the turkey legs into one hand so he could (after wiping his now empty hand off on his jeans) reach out for Paris’s arm. Hey, it was the reason they were there, right? He was sure she would be upset if her frustrations at Christa made her miss the whole thing.

He knew he wasn’t the only one to see the creatures as many around them gasped or reacted as if to shoo something away from them, but Chris didn’t have much of a chance to do anything other than pull Paris closer against his side — if it was something that could hurt them, he didn’t want her in danger.

But other than the feeling of something… being pulled from them, almost like his own breath, the small animal didn’t seem to harm them.

Chris felt a vibration in his pocket, and seeing Paris’s phone light up as well, he hoped she didn’t mind that he looked over her shoulder. “Penelope?” he wanted to verify, before looking up and around the suddenly confused crowd, trying to locate their friends. “We should see if they’re okay,” he mumbled, beginning to ushure Paris in Penelope and Christa’s direction.

It didn’t take long to reach them, and Chris was pleasantly surprised to see Danika there as well. “Any idea what that was?”

Björn winked, "Beauty is tempting to try to flavor. "

"But were you lost? I was making my way to the pie contest, but it is not going anywhere. I could help you a moment? There are many here, and I make wide roads. Or maybe you haven't seen it yet is all? I could - "

Gasps from here and there interrupted him from offering to pick her up onto shoulder to get a much higher view over the heads of the sea of people to maybe spot what she was looking for. There was one or two people pointing at the specks, then the specks became very odd.....rabbits. The strongman tried to interpose between the girl, and the rabbits, but they were both bopped with tiny paws and then the things vanished.

Crafty little things- no good ever came of messing with spirits. "Lygtemænd? What were they? "

He looked to the girl in case she had an explanation. Surely so fair a maiden had some sort of book learning about her. She might have a better guess. "Are you alright? It felt strange."