[b]TEAM RELAXATION[/b]

Mayzie can't help but stare, and when she isn't staring, or trying desperately not to spill her hot chocolate whenever she takes a desperate thirsty sip, she's drawing madly.

Not only is her girlfriend(???) radiant, smiling, alive, and what if she was wearing the sort of suit with angles that should be [i]illegal[/i], that goes in the upper left corner, but Yuki! Edogawa! is straining to achieve new heights of skill with [i]her[/i] craft, and... wouldn't it be nice if she could make, say, a heartpen? A heartbrush? Something with which she could dab the canvas and see it explode into colors, into hopes and dreams, into all the things that it's normally hard for her to say?

Things like the face study of Eclair that goes down onto the bottom, across from the study of Yuki, and it's a wild coincidence that Eclair's got her lips parted and looks like she's about to lean in for a kiss, and she wasn't thinking about that when she placed those two next to each other, and she isn't thinking about it now - I promise, on my honor - and instead she's getting lost in the eyes which she's looking at in order to get them down properly on the page, and she's purring.

Quietly, but unmistakably.

The world is warm and quiet here.

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[b]TEAM QUEST[/b]

"Cair Route?" says Keli indignantly, pressing a hand to her bosom (coincidentally taking a deerboy at least partially with it).
"Heron," Seli says, with a flourish of her sleeves, with a low bow. "It is my honor--"
"I don't see you going out there onto the dance floor, [i]floozy[/i]--"
"--to fight alongside you at last, yah?"
"--where this poor, delicate boy is menaced by huntresses and the coils of seductresses seductressing--"
"We will fight for love and desire intermingled--"
"--just look at him, still red and speechless from how dreadfully they must have [i]seduced[/i] him, yah?"
"--and bring discord into a tyrant's court--"
"Oh, don't you worry, you good boy--"
"--for the sake of the world."
"--you're safe from the world."

Seli's eyes shine with determination. Keli's eyes shine with the ambiguity of whether a bit has become the truth.

Then Alcideo steps up, whispers something very whispery in Keli's ear, and she releases a boy just enough for him to catch his breath, and for Alcideo to look him over for terminal fluster, sleepiness, stress, or-- "Ah. Yes. Quite. My lady, he's going to need a tincture of groundedness before he becomes [i]entirely[/i] too breathless for this." He loops in an arm and pulls Hazel away, talking about how he will need to check his tongue for the proper dosage...

...and then whispers in a silly cervine ear: "I think she likes you, Hazel."