"Tomorrow then," Ariel smiled widely. There was a moment where she just stood silently in front of Rukeewei, holding one of her hands in the other. She felt quite upbeat and excited now. She seldom received such propositions. The moment was short lived when she cleared her throat and looked around. "We'd better finish handing out these flyers. It'll be time to open soon."

Now with a different distraction in her mind, Ariel wandered around the rest of the festival with Rukeewei until their flyers had run out. Even though she constantly smiled and felt an anxious mix of feelings around Rukeewei, every time his back was turned she felt somewhat pathetic for not being more confident and sure of herself. The last time she fell in and out of love, she couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong with herself in the eyes of the one she was interested in. She didn't want to make the same mistakes, but it was hard to know whether she was making them at all, let alone how to keep herself from making them. As such, she did manage to hold conversations with Rukeewei still, but she kept tripping over her words, or saying things that she regarded moments later to be somewhat stupid. Him, on the other hand, only seemed to become nicer to be around.

Before Ariel left to open up her store, she stopped by the pack and informed them that it was time. Thoroughly full, and with a few new odd acquaintances due to the 'rules' of the day of feasting, the pack followed Ariel to her shop, with Ahnasha breaking off on the way to check on Fendros. Once they made it to the shop, there were a few last minute preparations to do, during which time a small number of people could be seen peering through the front window. Ariel opened the door and informed them that the store would open soon. In the last minute rush, she felt grateful for the distraction of familiar work rather than constantly punishing herself for not acting up to her own unrealisic social standards around Rukeewei. Here, she bossed him around quite confidently with a couple of tasks as soon as she had delegated tasks to the pack.

With the many hands they had, it was only light work that needed to be done before Ariel opened the door and made an announcement to the small group of people outside. "The store is open, everyone. Please come inside!" She said, then realising the cause of some of the blank faces in front of her. "Oh," She tried to assemble the Jel in her head, then in her throat, [i]"The shop is open. Welcome!"[/i] Even though it wasn't the most native sounding Jel, the hisses caused the rest of the group to begin moving. With that, she smiled and ducked back inside, walking behind the counter and tapping her fingers against the counter excitedly. "Finally open," she said with a tone of relief. She had missed attending a store.