Saul appreciated the offer Bri said about staying with them, but he realized that he probably sounded sad for a reason they didn't realize. Sure, he loved Anais and missed her a lot, but it still bothered him from time to time that he saw her more often than his own mother. It wasn't addressed though as the girl bumped into him. Evan and Bri did have a point that the girl probably stole his wallet, and the fact he was so not there at the moment probably didn't help. It wasn't the first time he had lost his wallet, by any means, but for it to be stolen this was probably the first. He didn't much care though. He did need to take their advice every once in a while and keep his wallet where it wouldn't be so easily stolen. "Maybe I just need to always wear a shirt with an inside pocket and keep it there." Saul muttered. Evan smiled a little when Saul brought up his mom coming, but she got distracted a moment when her phone went off. It was a text from their dad. She kind of smiled when she read it. Of course he knew that Denise was blowing them up, but it was good to know that they were there. "The fireworks may start soon, dad and Denise are here already." she said. She totally missed Bri asking if they could meet Saul's mom this time, but suddenly the question became aware to her. "Of course. Mom has been waiting for us to line up so she could meet you." Saul said. He chuckled a bit at Bri's excitement and he noticed Evan giggling. "You're doing it again," she said to Bri. "Actually yeah, you do get to ice stuff." he said as he pulled out his phone. He went to go text his mother when he saw a new text from her appear on her screen. He smiled and looked around. "Shit." he muttered. "What?" Evan asked. "Mom hasn't been here in years and she's asking where we are exactly, trying to figure out how to explain to her where we are." he said. "Call her." Evan said. "Does she like funnel cakes or corn dogs? I'll totally get her one. And do you want either because I'll get you one too?" "No, but thanks. Mom might want a corndog though if you really don't mind." he said. "I'm going right over there." he said, pointing to a small area with picnic tables set up. "Might be easier to see her from there while I'm not in the thick of everything. Might be easier to talk too." "Okay. We'll be over in a few. Unless you want to go with him Bri, I can get your stuff too." she said. She saw Saul standing near an empty picnic table on his phone and looking around the crowd and she smiled. At least today is going better than she had hoped. Denise would probably burst a vessel, the food was always great, and she gets to look forward to not only seeing Anais, but meeting Saul's mom finally. Everything she had heard about the woman made her kind of jealous of Saul because she sounded like a wonderful woman and mother. Saul had explained to them why she wasn't around, and it was honestly noble and made her wonder about how things worked with angels. Not something she often thought about because she knew that how creatures were portrayed wasn't always accurate, look at phoenixes. She moved forward in line and she took up her phone again and sighed, finally replying to her dad. [i]Thanks for letting me know. If you can break away from her long enough you should come say hi, Bri and me are with Saul. Would be nice to see you at some point today without her. Aunt Anais said she was coming if you didn't already know. Love you![/i] Evan knew their dad a little better than the rest of the kids, mostly because she was his little girl. She loved him no matter how much of a fuck up Denise tried to make him out to be, and she could tell he was just miserable and it was why he was the way he was. It wasn't hard for anyone to tell that, but it was hard to help him out when they didn't know everything. She finally got to the window and ordered the food for everyone, making sure to order them all a drink too, even Saul's mom. She waited near the pick up window before she looked over to see Saul and Bri both looking in the crowd now. She took the drink carrier from the guy at the pick up window and set it down near them before going back over to get the food, and she stood up on top of the table. "Come on guys, make yourself easier to see." "Good thinking." Saul said. "Hey," he said into the phone, can you see a girl that looks like she's standing on something near a funnel cake and corndog stand?" He waited a second and smiled. "Great, see you soon then." he hung up and looked up to Evan. "Mind standing there for a minute?" "Not at all." she laughed. She laughed even harder. "Oh this is great, a little kid just kneed a big jock looking dude in the nuts." -- Sierra smiled a little to the girl. "Well from the looks of the guy," she said when Naomi showed the wallet. "That dickbag kind of deserved it." she said. She watched as she went to return the wallet before her phone went off again. [i]I'm meeting up with my son, I'll catch up with you in a little bit. I get to meet his younger sisters finally.[/i] she saw the text on her screen and smiled. At least Temp was safe and would get to see her son. She knew she had been missing him. When the girl came back, Sierra smiled. "Nice to meet you, Naomi." she chuckled. Something about the name sounded familiar, and the fact that she did look pretty uncanny to her bloodline that she knew of made her wonder, but she wouldn't say anything yet. "My friend is meeting up with her son and his sisters so, I'm going to give her a bit before trying to find her. You been to one of these before? I have but not one like this. It's so much more congested than others, and to be honest, I'm starved and cannot find anywhere that has those giant slices of pizza. Please tell me there is at least one of those here." Sierra took note of a few people she recognized and she quickly turned and ducked her head down, watching as they walked off. What were Sybil's people doing here? "Oh that's not good." she mumbled to herself a bit. She sent a quick message to Temp to let her know that Sybil's people were there so she would be trying to lay low too and would meet up with her when she was ready. She and Temp knew a lot about each other, especially after running together for the last ten years. But she was almost certain that Sybil's people didn't know she was here. They had to be after someone else, which also made her curious. -- Val was glad when they didn't seem too upset with her for knocking into them, and she smiled a bit. She quirked a brow. "Taco truck?" she asked. It was probably very apparent now that she didn't get out much, but when Siddiq came back she felt more at ease. She smiled. "Thanks, Siddy." she said. When Jamila offered to let her try some she shook her head a little. "No thank you, I've never actually tried one in general, so I'm just trying to feel it out, you know?" Val smiled when the guy, Zayden, said she was doing better than she thought. That actually made her feel a lot better that a stranger let her know she wasn't doing that bad. She smiled a bit. "Nice to meet you guys." Siddiq smiled and chuckled. "Nice to meet you, and thank you. Could say they are... cat-like." he chuckled at his own joke, knowing that the others wouldn't get it. The head shake he saw Val give was worth it though. "Just saying." Val shook her head. "Oh that would be fun!" she smiled at the offer. "Would be nice to actually go around with more people, especially those as nice as the two of you." he said, and Val smiled. However, it quickly faded and she handed her plate to Siddiq and moved to stand behind him when she saw people going through. He was confused for a moment until he saw the people and he shook his head. "They're gone, Val, you're good." Val nodded and moved from behind him before she took her plate back from him and chuckled again. "Sorry. So, where are we heading?" she asked. -- Aetulia was glad when the meeting was finally over, and she headed out. She heard Delonna, and she turned and smiled to her when she asked about lunch. She nodded. "Sure. Sounds lovely, just got to figure out what we want." she said. Kai knew to wait for her if she was running behind. That was good thing about their marriage, for as little as they saw each other, they always knew that being patient paid off in the long run. Plus, Kai actually brought Azariah with him today, and while she was looking forward to seeing him too, she couldn't risk Amal or Darius finding out about them. Delonna she knew wouldn't say anything, but she didn't know if Amal or Darius were watching right now. Darius likely wasn't with how concerned her seemed over Val when those people came into their tent, but Amal was harder to gauge. She started walking off with Delonna and sighed. "I know you mentioned that Life said something about someone in the Abyss." she said, quietly. They tended to figure more out when it was just the two of them as it was, and when it came to matters of the Abyss, while Darius was a good help, they were better off trying to figure it out themselves half the time. "Is there anyway that they could help, you think?" Her eyes briefly caught sight of Kai as he headed off towards another, smaller tent. She smiled a little to herself, especially after seeing Azariah go in not long after him. At least they were here already and she didn't have to worry about that. -- Tobias sighed a bit and rolled his eyes before looking at Becca. "Looks like I do, don't I?" he laughed at her notion about owing her a drink. "You just let me know when you're ready for it." Watching Warren deal with Sybil's people was always entertaining. He knew that there was vendetta there, considering Warren had ran with both of Sybil's sons in the past. What was sad was that he ran with Roland for longer than he did Atticus, but he got much closer to Atticus than he did to Roland. Then again, Tobias did meet Roland once over the course of knowing Warren and that guy tended to be a huge dick. He saw Warren turn back to them when he was done and he chuckled. Warren watched as the girl transformed back from a... chair? What the hell, who turned into a chair? "Don't be such a man." Warren mocked Becca. It was good natured, and he laughed after. "What does that even mean?" He quirked a brow at the girl and he shrugged. "It's not a big deal. I hate that bitch they work for." Warren said, but before the girl could go, he looked at her. "You know that wasn't all of them, I know how Sybil works, unfortunately, and that probably isn't even half of her followers here. I don't mind taking care of them for you, considering I do love fucking with that bitch's plans, but with how many she generally has... it may not be smart for you to go out there by yourself." Tobias looked over to Becca when Warren offered to help the girl. He hadn't seen this before, but then again, he also knew when it came to Sybil it was liable to happen. Tobias never personally dealt with the woman either, but he knew dealers that did, and they were bottom of the barrel. Now this would be interesting if the girl took him up on his offer. Especially with how skittish she already seemed. "But really, you ran into the right tent honestly, most of the other groups would have kicked you out. We rightfully don't mind a little bit of action." Tobias told her. -- This place was somehow more crowded than she remembered it being years ago. Time really did change things. She texted Saul and let him know that she was already in the festival. Had it not been for the lady shoving her, and her knocking the man over, she might not have ever seen who it was. When she helped them up, she could hear her name and initially her heart sank. She thought she had missed one, but when the voice fully registered with her, she looked at the man before her. "Chris?" she breathed. She was frozen herself, but all she could do was watch as the blonde woman he had been walking with dragged him off. She stood there until he was out of sight, barely feeling people brush passed her. He was here? She shook her head a little soon heard her phone ringing. "Hello?" she answered. "Hey mom, where are you? I'm going to try to get you to us." Saul's voice came and she smiled. "Us?" she asked. "I'm with Bri and Evan." he answered her, and she smiled and moved out of the way of the crowd. "Um, well, I'm in the middle of two lemonade stands and I see cotton candy and popcorn stand in front of me. I just got in the gates a minute or two ago." she said, and soon he started telling her where to go. She followed his directions for a bit, but navigating the crowd was getting harder and she could hear him talking to someone next to him. After a moment or two he asked if he could see a girl who looked like she might be standing on a table near a funnel cake stand and she looked around. "I do. Oh, that must be one of the twins, isn't it. I'll be right there." she smiled. She hung up and shot a text to Sierra, seeing one come back in return. She frowned a little when she saw that Sierra had seen Sybil's people, but she shook her head and headed towards the girl she saw standing on the table. When she got out of the crowd, and smiled when she saw Saul, and she watched as he walked over and picked her up in a hug. "I've missed you so much." she whispered to him, and she smiled a bit and looked him over. "You haven't changed much." "Neither have you. I've missed you too mom." he said. He motioned for her to follow him. She saw the girl get off the picnic table and she smiled. "Mom, this is Bri and Evan." he said, motioning to each respectively. "Bri, Evan, this is my mom, Temperance." "Just call me Temp though." she smiled, and she looked them over. "It is so great to finally meet you girls. Saul is always talking about you."