[center][h3][color=9966ff] Lihn Phan [/color] && [color=B0E0E6] Kei Phan[/color][/h3][/center]

[i][u]Greencrest Heights, White Coast[/u][/i]

"Kei! Are you awake yet?" Lihn let out a slight sigh as she shouted up the stairs, before returning to the dining hall table when she got a muffled groan in response. Notes were spread out across it, a lot more disorganised than she would have liked. While she was off most Saturdays she did have a bit of paperwork to catch up with. She did live a somewhat busy life and had to fit in doing this kind of thing whenever she had time.

"Mama, mama," the insistent tugging on her could only be one little munchkin. Thanh looked up at her with wide, dark green eyes.

"Hmm?" Lihn bent down to pick up the slightly six year old, easily holding her in her arms. 

 "It's sunny. Let's go outside."

"You want to play outside? Maybe you and Kei could play out in the garden for a bit?"

Thanh shook her head stubbornly, bottom lip quivering slightly. "No! Proper outside."

"Mommy is very busy, Thanh." Lihn loved her daughter, she really did, but sometimes it got a bit tiring juggling all the various aspects of her life. And Kei hadn't even appeared downstairs yet. Sometimes she had no idea what to do with her brother. Though, her daughter was the issue here. "Maybe Kei will go out with you. Why don't you got wake him up?"

"Okay!" Thanh wriggled a bit until Lihn put her down, running up the stairs with loud shouts of "Kay Kay! Wake up!"

Well, that was two problems sorted. Although she doubted Kei would accept going out. His aversion to the sun and heat would mean he would prefer to stay inside on such a nice day. Lihn understood. After all being in the sun was difficult for her brother. He had described how it felt in quite detail. Not to mention that Lihn had felt his emotions when it first happen. That had been a mistake.

Sighing for the second time that morning Lihn began to clear up what was laid out on the table. She would undoubtedly have to go out with her daughter for some kind of walk and Kei still needed breakfast anyway. Who knew how much space he'd take up with some extravagant breakfast dish that he'd cook up.

"I can't believe you used Thanh, that's an unfair tactic," Kei's voice was grumpy as he entered the kitchen crossed with a dining room, his niece practically clinging to his leg.

"Kay, outside with me!" She was getting louder as he shuffled over towards the fridge, looking through what they had. Lihn noted that she would have to go out shopping for food again. Maybe she could do that this evening. Then again there was the celebration happening tonight. She was planning on taking Kei out to that. It would have cooled down by then.

"I'm sorry, Tani, but I've got to have breakfast. And it's too warm for me." Kei spoke at half the volume that Thanh did.

"Mommy he won't go out with me!" Thanh detached herself from Kei's leg and ran over to Lihn, not getting any less loud. "I want to go into the sun."

Linh held back another sigh. "Then how about the two of us go out on a walk, and let Kei make his breakfast in peace?" Thanh's face lit up. "Go get your shoes on and wait at the door." The little girl ran off quite happily. Linh turned back to face Kei. The two looked at each other in silence for a few moments.

"I won't do anything stupid. I'm just making breakfast, then I'll do some coursework." That was a lie. He'd probably go back to bed, or game. He didn't feel up to doing more of his college stuff. 
Lihn shrugged slightly. "Just remember we're going out tonight." With a smile she went over to the front hall of their house, getting on her own shoes before leading Thanh out of the door. Hopefully after this walk she would have time to get her work done.

[hr][center][h3][color=dc143c] Maxine Diaz [/color][/h3][/center]

[i][u]RAVEN/DOVE West Coast Joint Headquarters, White Coast[/u][/i]

Max had been late in. It was a, well, regular occurrence. She wasn't particularly competent at managing her own time especially when it came to waking up in the morning. She didn't mean to be late. It didn't help that Rori had kept her up pretty late the night before watching movies. Max hadn't want to but she couldn't argue with her cousin.

She just about managed to get away with missing an unimportant, and short, meeting first thing in the morning. Mostly. The extra paperwork wasn't appreciated but she could deal with it. Maybe. Max didn't like paperwork. She hadn't signed up to RAVEN for fucking paperwork. But unfortunately it seemed that it was all there was to do around here. Not that she wanted there to be a lot of action or anything.

After a bit of gruelling paperwork (at least it seemed that way to her) Max decided she deserved some kind of break. The break room was pretty close, and a lot busier than she had expected. Max was yet to become that friendly with any of the other agents but there weren't any that she didn't get on with. Well, with a few exceptions.

She found herself a spot on a sofa and just let herself absentmindedly watch what was on the TV. It wasn't something interesting but it was more relaxing than paper work. She turned her head as someone else entered the break room.

Oh great. Cindy Keagan was one of the other agents that Max hadn't gotten off to the best start with. Still, she wasn't going to let it ruin her break (that would probably end up longer than it should be, what with a large stack of paperwork looming in front of her).

Even as she tried to relax her dark gaze kept on moving between the different people. She didn't mean for it to do so. She didn't exactly want to make it look like she was staring and antagonise anyone. That always led to bad things... for her. Still, she couldn't help but glance over at where Cindy was talking to someone. She was slightly curious about that. She felt that she never really knew what was going on between most of the people.

Ah well, she'd be able to talk to people more with time.

[hr][center][h3][color=00ff7f] Rori Aherne [/color][/h3][/center]

[i][u]West Woodlake, Hedgemount[/u][/i]

Rori had been awake for far too long. They had woken up early morning, even earlier than Max had to to get to work. They had put it down to part of their bird brain waking up to the sounds of birds outside. Or maybe it was old habits coming back. They had always slept with the sun cycle, waking when it rose, up until two years ago.

Still there was no tiredness that caffeine couldn't fix. They had stayed in bed until they had heard Max leave (late again) and then gotten out of the cocoon of blankets they were wrapped in. Soon coffee was being boiled. Max had left a note pinned to the fridge as she always did. 

'Going out tonight, so be home for dinner. Try not to get into too many fights with other birds.'

Rori rolled their eyes. Max thought she was funny. She really wasn't. Still, Rori was glad for Max.

Humming slightly they filled up their mug (covered in birds, as loads of things they owned were) with coffee and drank it quickly. It was hot but they didn't mind. They wanted to leave the house soon. They had loads of plans for drawing today and not much time if they had to be back for whatever was happening tonight. Oh wait, yeah, that was it. The celebration!

There would be loads of people there. How exciting! Rori grinned to themselves as they went to grab their sketchbook and pencils. They made sure to grab their phone and a bit of money before leaving, and locking the house.

Now, where to go first?