[img]http://i.imgur.com/2uDBgEK.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/8mPMSWF.png[/img] [u][b]Tagress: Guild[/b][/u] "What else do you want to do today, Estelle?" Lisette asked, after everyone began devouring their food with Moira and Syed’s arrival, the former beginning to devour her food at the same frenetic rate as Estelle was. Dylan, Marcus, Amy and Selan all watched the younger Guilders eating with calmer refinement, drinking their tea and coffee whilst the others eat much more loudly and… messily. “Yes,” Dylan echoed, “That’s a very good question. I think we should all do something fun, get out of the town.” His eyes lit up. “Oh, I know! Let me grab a canvas and paint and we can go out on a picnic. It’s a sunny afternoon and we can bring some wine and snacks. I can paint, Lisette can play with Kapi, and...you all can chase butterflies or something.” “Faff sounth greath!!!” Estelle screamed in delight with an engorged cheeks sputtering crumbs of food back onto her plate. Some of her friends recoiled in fright from the wild spitage. “Estelle…” Selan looked towards her more sternly, hoping to reinforce the young girl on her table manners. Estelle saw Selan’s frown, and suddenly stopped, swallowing the rest of her food and cleaning her mouth clean. “I also need to get a haircut!” Estelle yelled, lifting the messy bangs of her hair up. The severing of her ponytail, and her prolonged hospital stay had made the fiery mess atop her scalp… even messier. “Selan, would you be able to help me later? Please? Pretty pretty pleaaaase?” [img]http://i.imgur.com/FDEt0pt.png[/img] “Syeeeed, you should eat your food~” Nikki cooed from across the table, smiling at the man warily looking at the plate beneath him. A plate that suddenly found a fraction of it missing. “Before it gets stolen~” Nikki dropped the pieces of food in her mouth and quickly ate and swallowed it all, downing it with more milk and laughing at the same time. She then leaned back to the other side, against Lucien’s shoulder. In the course of their adventures in Vandrell and their lengthy hospital stay, Nikki had taken a shine to the summoner. He was cute and funny and his animal summoning abilities were truly something… and Dylan was quite a catch too! The man was really, really pretty, and his ability to summon anything he drew was really cool~ even if annoyingly the man shrugged off every single one of her advances. And there was Julius too! Boy, the Pride really had managed to recruit some hot guys… although Marcus was still her favourite. “Hey, hey, Lucien, what do you wanna do this afternoon? A picnic sounds cool! You could show us all of your animal summons again, too!” [img]http://i.imgur.com/Hls1DIr.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/Cn93Ts6.png[/img] “A picnic, huh…?” Celeste murmured quietly. “I could do with some exercise, actually… otherwise my body will get all rusty.” She stretched her arms up high into the air. “I wouldn’t mind putting on a show! Don't you think the others would love that, Juju?!” Julius said nothing, keeping quiet only to himself. He had seen enough of Celeste's performances that, whilst she was good, and there was absolutely no denying that or how much everyone else would enjoy it, he just didn't have the need to see it again. For the hundreth time. “Where’s Big Bro gotten to, too? He’s been down lately, I’m sure he’d love this!” Dylan added, once it seemed as though everyone was in agreement about enjoying a picnic somewhere. The Pride had all noticed Don’s distancing from the others, even though little was said between them about it. A man like Don, nobody had any doubts he would bounce back from whatever funk he was in with, well, more funk and soul then ever before! Although he had been down for quite a long time too… “Trent’s gone as well,” Marcus added, sipping on his coffee. “But I’m sure they’re both alright.” "Yeah, I think I'd have gone mad if I had to stay there any longer," Syed nodded after seeing Moira’s ravenous enjoyment of her meal. "You know I ended up counting how many ceiling tiles that room had in it. Twice." He turned to Marcus with a grin. The wind mage was looking towards Estelle, but he hoped he wouldn't mind him saying his piece. "Still, at least we're all back together. I don't think I ever got a chance to properly thank you for that, Marcus." Suddenly his eyes widened, and his voice became hushed as he clapped his hands over his mouth. "Wait... does she know that?! I didn't just blow it did I oh geez I'm so sorry...!" “Hmpf?” Estelle looked up, food sandwiched in her mouth yet again. “Blowth what?” “Hahaha, I already told Estelle about it,” Marcus smiled. “She… strangled me for quite a while after I did again…” “Blowth what?” --- [img]http://i.imgur.com/P4YXqzD.png[/img] [u][b]Tagress: Outskirts[/b][/u] In the tranquil woods located outside Tagress, the sounds of exasperated huffing and puffing could be heard echoing. The swift pitter patter of footsteps was followed by a mighty lunge and roar… and then a loud crash and animal squeal afterwards. “I’ve got you now, you little prick!” Lying on the ground, Trent gripped onto the backlegs of the writhing Boarig with all the force he could muster, making sure the tenacious troublemaker that had been poaching from the nearby farm was caught and dealt with. Whereas everyone spent their time leisurely recovering and taking a break after being discharged from the Hospital, Trent was already making up for lost time by taking on the first mission he could. The thought of that red haired gorilla already being rank F and he only a G was infuriating! Even if it was only a small, easy H rank mission like this, he had to keep working. Had to keep training, and get better, and better. Even if she did start a year before him, he couldn’t let her keep being ahead of him! He refused it! “Stop squirming, you little bastard.” Trent stood up, bonking the boarig on the head and silencing its protests for the time being. Now, time to deliver the pest back to the Guild… that was, until he realised he wasn’t quite sure what exactly the direction to the city was. “Er…” “Mr. Walker?” “…huh?” Trent quickly swivelled around, dropping the bouncing boarig to the ground as someone suddenly called his name out from behind. Turning, he braced himself for anything, only to be met with surprise at the stranger… “Y-y-you?!”