Veragwen giggled as Kest picked her up and spun around with her. She smiled at him when he put her down, "Well, alright, but keep in mind, I might need to dash off like I did before again even if I don't want to. It's important to me that things stay under control at the festival. In a way, I suppose it's a test of my skills. This is a quiet village normally, so it's not hard to protect, but look at all these people! It's a whole new level of chellenge."

She realized this would be her first date. Vera was generally too busy helping people, or training, or learning some new thing to help people, or hunting to do anything she considered fun or romantic. Not that she didn't enjoy those things, but she just couldn't find time for fun things. She had to admit it felt nice to be treated as a woman for once. And Kest seemed to think of her pretty highly, although she supposed it was hard to tell who Kest had seen. Perhaps it wasn't as great a compliment as she thought...

Vera checked the stage where she had last seen Mara to see she was now gone. She looked back at Kest, "Your sister seems to have gone elsewhere...shall we look for her and tell her the good news?" she asked, holding out her hand for him to take as they walked together to look for Mara.

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Elayna continued to peformance, but she was getting bored! Luckily, she could do these dances in her sleep, but she enjoyed a good fight much more. Meeting Mara only made her that much more excited for it! There was nothing like feeling her greatsword make a clean hit.