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[right][code]The Festival[/code][/right]

[center][b]Interactions:[/b] [i][b]Luca,[@FernStone],Emily/George [@Punished GN], Stormy [@Blizz][/b][/i]
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Lila heard Luca speak clearly for the first time and it shook her.  He sounded angry.  He was angry.  And he had moved in between the two.  Lila’s expression softened as much as her black eyes would allow.  She did not want to risk hurting Luca when Emily eventually said some more shit.  All she wanted right now were her normal hands, and several beers to forget that she had heard her dead name.  [color=FFE4E1]“Don’t push me out so soon,”[/color] The Maiden whispered, [color=FFE4E1]“I’m just starting to enjoy this”[/color] Lila winced as her voice tried to push her back towards the anger.  Lila did not let it stay for long.  Instead she turned her head and watched Luca passionately stand up to Emily, her eyes turned slightly and saw Jasper also watching Luca do the same thing.  She shifted them back to Luca, and smiled when he called her his friend.  The more he talked, the more the rage pulled away from her mind, the more quiet the maiden got, and the more herself she felt.

And then Luca said to not hit her again.  To not take this any further.  Lila smiled a little wider.  As she smiled the feathered claws retreated and soon she was left with her normal hands.  As this feeling, this power of friendship, enveloped her The Maiden chuckled.  [color=FFE4E1]“You’ve let me in once, I’ll be back soon.”[/color]. A few seconds later her eyes returned to normal and she felt all of The Maidens rage fall away with her.  She took a deep breath.  It felt like she hadn’t taken a full breathe since the maiden returned to her.  [color=DA70D6]“Me and you are on break again.  You do not play with my emotions like that.. Emily may have had it coming but Jesus fuck this could’ve been bad,”[/color] she thought to herself.

Lila turned and saw Stormy.  She remembered he had complimented her swing, and asked what was going on.  [color=DA70D6]“I don’t usually punch people, Emily is a fucking transphobic cunt though.”[/color]. Lila turned her head towards Lynn, and saw that she had several beers in hand.  She was placing them down gently on a table.  The two locked eyes, Lynn quickly shifted hers down to Lila’s hand before a smile spread across her face.  Lila turned her head and spotted Jasper who was still staring at Luca.  Lila tilted her head.   That was strange, he has been staring at Luca for a couple of minutes now. Lila turned her eyes back to Luca and flashed a quick smile.

[color=DA70D6]“Thank you.  You’re right Luca, that bitch is not-“”[/color] Lila paused as an ice cold liquid was poured on her head.  The smell of cheap beer quickly overwhelmed her senses. In an instant that anger returned, this time ten fold.  Whoever was doing this would pay.  And then she heard George talk. In an instant her feathered hands shot outward, and this was soon followed by her eyes returning to their void like color.  Her hand quickly moved to her throat and she ripped her choaker off.  She then reached into her bag and pulled out a variety of cheap rings and other worthless jewelry she simply had on hand.  She did not expect to make an offering and she’d need to find some tacky shop selling jewelry and fast .  [color=FFE4E1]“My, my that was not long.  Shall I give you your next gifts, or will you do better suffering through some adversity to teach you respect?”[/color]  Lila’s anger became visible on her face as she thought [color=DA70D6]“go fuck yourself”[/color] as she she dropped her offerings to the ground in front of her.

[color=#DA70D6]“[/color][color=#DA72D6]S[/color][color=#DB74D6]h[/color][color=#DC76D6]i[/color][color=#DC78D6]t[/color] [color=#DE7CD7]a[/color][color=#DE7FD7]l[/color][color=#DF81D7]l[/color] [color=#E085D8]o[/color][color=#E187D8]v[/color][color=#E289D8]e[/color][color=#E28BD8]r[/color] [color=#E490D9]E[/color][color=#E492D9]m[/color][color=#E594D9]i[/color][color=#E696D9]l[/color][color=#E798D9]y[/color] [color=#E89DDA]a[/color][color=#E99FDA]n[/color][color=#E9A1DA]d[/color] [color=#EBA5DB]G[/color][color=#EBA7DB]e[/color][color=#ECAADB]o[/color][color=#EDACDB]r[/color][color=#EDAEDB]g[/color][color=#EEB0DC]e[/color][color=#EFB2DC],[/color] [color=#F0B6DC]a[/color][color=#F1B9DC]i[/color][color=#F1BBDD]m[/color] [color=#F3BFDD]f[/color][color=#F4C1DD]o[/color][color=#F4C3DD]r[/color] [color=#F6C8DE]t[/color][color=#F6CADE]h[/color][color=#F7CCDE]e[/color][color=#F8CEDE]i[/color][color=#F8D0DF]r[/color] [color=#FAD4DF]m[/color][color=#FAD7DF]o[/color][color=#FBD9DF]u[/color][color=#FCDBE0]t[/color][color=#FCDDE0]h[/color][color=#FDDFE0]s[/color][color=#FEE1E0]”[/color].

The crows swarmed the offering before they took to the skies.  Immediately they began to do just as instructed.  Lila turned to Luca with a devious smile. She felt herself slipping away, being pulled towards a distant, dangerous place.  The more she met the maiden in, the more it pulled her away from being a hundred percent present in her body.  It was like she was in two places at the same time.  She could see Luca, clear as day, but she could also see a forest, and a green glow coming from within it.  The forest seemed familiar.   She focused her vision on Luca instead, pushing the forest to the corner of her vision.  Lila’s eyes seemed a little more devoid of life than before.  Her smile a little more wicked.  Her presence a little less Lila.

[color=#DA70D6]“[/color][color=#DD7AD7]W[/color][color=#E085D8]h[/color][color=#E48FD9]a[/color][color=#E79ADA]t[/color] [color=#EEAFDC]f[/color][color=#F1B9DD]u[/color][color=#F4C4DE]n[/color][color=#F8CEDF]![/color][color=#FBD9E0]”[/color], Lila paused as she laughed, [color=#DA70D6]“[/color][color=#DC77D6]S[/color][color=#DE7ED7]h[/color][color=#E085D8]a[/color][color=#E38DD8]l[/color][color=#E594D9]l[/color] [color=#EAA2DA]w[/color][color=#ECAADB]e[/color][color=#EEB1DC],[/color] [color=#F3BFDD]R[/color][color=#F5C7DE]o[/color][color=#F8CEDE]t[/color][color=#FAD5DF]?[/color][color=#FCDCE0]”[/color]


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Lynn watched as George poured the beer over Lila’s head.  Lynn turned her head and waited for Jasper to react yet his attention was firmly on Luca.  Lynn turned her head back towards the fight. She was less surprised that George would do something like that and more so surprised that someone so tall and big was able to sneak up on Lila like that.  Lynn grabbed one of her own beers and simply drank, and drank, and drank it until it was empty.  She placed the empty bottle down and grabbed a second one and did the same.  As she finished the second one she saw the feathered hand of Lila return and watched as she began to prepare an offering.  A few seconds later Emily and George were being peppered by bird shit, and the way Lila was talking and looking make Lynn nervous.

[color=F08080]“Stormy… It might be time for the monsters to go to sleep,”[/color] she paused as she took another deep drink from her beer.

She did not think Emily would do anything, nor did she think Emily would allow George to do anything.  The problem was everything that they did to Emily now would be returned twice as vicious down the road.  Punching her was one going, but humiliating her?  In front of the entire town and tourist?  At the Halloween festival?  Lynn did not need the future to see that trouble would come their way, and Lynn might make it even worse if she was allowed to continue.  She could always blame Britney, it was her fault that the maiden was still here.  Would Emily listen?  Would she care?  Lynn turned her head back to Jasper, hoping he would be moving towards the fight to do[i]something[/i] but his attention was firmly on Luca still.  How strange?