[img=http://i.imgur.com/eeX4Zmf.png] [b][u]Thaum? - Coliseum[/b][/u] Estelle's embrace seemed to snap Selan out of her daze, and the songstress took a deep, shaky breath to calm herself down. "Is Selan okay?" she heard Dylan ask. "I'm... I'm fine," Selan breathed, turning away from Estelle to quickly wipe away welled-up tears with the back of her hand. A few more deep breaths, and her tense shoulders finally relaxed. That is, until the floor they were standing on began to ascend higher and higher, and bright lights burned her vision white even though her eyes were closed. [i]"You... you have got to be joking..."[/i] Selan pulled herself up and her still-adjusting eyes shifted over their surroundings, finally beginning to understand where they were. Or at least, she [i]thought[/i] she was understanding; she briefly thought she had somehow fallen asleep back at the coliseum, and the mayhem that had occurred there and afterward was simply a dream. But the friends that surrounded her were different from before, and the audience... They weren't [i]in[/i] the audience, the audience was watching [i]them[/i]. And the eyes that stared at them were not human. But they weren't malicious in the predatory way that she would have expected... She spotted a small wolf perched on the shoulders of a bigger one, waving a tiny wooden sword in the air like an excited child. There was a reason Selan opted out of competing with the others before, and she backed up towards one side of the cage. Luckily, her companions were much better suited, and she wondered who, or what, exactly they would be forced to fight. --- [img=http://i.imgur.com/aBIXoi8.png] [b][u]Thaum Square?[/b][/u] Lisette woke up to the smells of the stalls in Thaum Square. She supposed they waited all night for Dr. Dream, Atlas, and Marcus to arrive and then it was daytime again, or something. "Maaaarshmallows..." Lisette half-yawned and half-mumbled. She reached for her bag (finding it a lot lighter than usual since Kapi was no longer inside) and pulled out the paper sack of marshmallows. They'd probably be a little stale, but otherwise they'd probably be fine. [I]Squeak! Squeak! Squeak![/i] "Ahhhhh!!" Lisette shrieked, dropping the sack on the ground. The [url=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AwP84-Rq77Y/TqZdfDPGxGI/AAAAAAAABQg/7bHfy1bDaec/s1600/Marshmallow_Goodness_by_Syachi.jpg]marshmallows[/url] spilled out and hopped away. Lisette didn't bother chasing after them, and instead rushed over to the nearest food stall, which had a harmless-looking picture of ice cream on its sign. A "man" in an "owl suit" held out a [url=http://www.theupperhandart.com/icp_alex_pardee_zerofriends.jpg]monstrous-looking ice cream cone[/url], prompting Lisette to recoil and run to the next one, a harmless produce stand for tomatoes. She remembered that one, there was nothing weird about that one! But when she looked closely, the largest tomato [url=http://www.maplewiki.net/images/c/c7/Monster_Giant_Tomato.png]smiled at her[/url]. Faces, faces everywhere! She refused to eat anything with a face! The archer sunk to her knees in front of the tomato stand, then let loose a loud cry. "Noooooo!! I can never eat anything ever again!!" --- [img=http://i.imgur.com/9AVqdzv.png] Kapi clung onto as much of Don's hair as he could, as the tall man grabbed his friends and bolted. The capybara rotated on the top of his head to see what they were running from. Giant bugs, been there, done that. He rotated again and plopped down, squishing his butt on Don's head.