His eyes scanned over the young girl's attire, or rather her overall look. She.. was quite beautiful. No, she was beautiful. Even thought her dress wasn't a traditional one that was made of petals and flowers, it looks great on her.

Taking her hand seemed very natural to him, like it had been in the forest when they first met. However they hadn't done that since that time as it was mostly visits of the professional kind. The silence was rather noticeable, but he didn't really know what to say without making heart beat soar faster than they were flying.

He noticed that Lyriia had stopped flying, so he followed suit and stopped before he ended up dragging her around. The hanging flower gardens were always quite amazing every year, it was quite a common sight to see other fairies just stopping and staring in awe at such a sight.

Suddenly, his partner was launched through the air by something, their hands separating as they drifted apart, good thing she didn't end up flying too far. Ahmal looked at where the source of the force came from. A small child. Obviously one of Lyriia's relatives judging by the sudden excitement generated in such a tiny person.

His gaze followed the child as she circled him. Her question was quite sudden, but a little expected. Children were always funny ones. His face went a slight, but mostly unnoticeable shade of pink as he went to answer, but it was interrupted by the other fairy's unconvincing denial. However, what came out of the mouth of the child, whom he now knew as Kierie, really surprised him. Flower-friend. 

Such a term wasn't really something children should know, but he figured that most of them knew the term anyway due to how public some.. or rather most, fairies are about their exploits and whoever they're doing.

He listened to the back and forth that Lyriia was having with Kierie, noticing that her family was pretty.. disconnected from Lyriia. It didn't seem like she knew a lot about what was going on in her family. But the same could be said about Ahmal. As far as he knew, one of his sisters was going out with someone, the other 5 were doing.. something. But what he did know, was that they were all going to be at the festival. And the Ball. Hopefully he didn't run into any of them.. Although it seemed inevitable.

Bed-friend, public-friend... tie-up-friend.. [color=a187be]"I think friend has lost it's actual meaning somewhere.."[/color] He mumbled to himself, his face a little more pink now, but it wasn't noticeable since he had chosen to turn his head away slightly.

[color=a187be]"If you do choose to murder them, I'll have to arrest you."[/color] He responded with an amused look in his face, still blushing a little. [color=a187be]"I think we should enjoy looking at the merchandise and generally going around the festival grounds before going to the Equinox Ball."[/color] He added with a warm smile. A rather uncommon expression for him, but it seemed he was all smiles tonight.

He gently took Lyriia's hand again and began to lead her to the festival grounds. He turned slightly to look at her, [color=a187be]"I believe we'll inevitably bump into.. my brothers and sisters at this festival. I'll have to keep my wits about me."[/color] He sighed. It was quite obvious that he wasn't fond of them, they were like Kierie, except.. Not children.