Strong Gold Community, Silver HillsMax felt slightly worried about this event. There were a few reasons for this, of course. First of all she did not want to fuck up. She knew she hadn't proven herself reliable
all the time so she'd really have to be careful here. Second, it was going to be full of fucking Saviours. That made being a RAVEN agent quite uncomfortable.
And third, her stupid cousin had decided they were still going to come to the celebration even if Max couldn't go with them. That was the last thing Max wanted. While friendly Rori wasn't the most socially aware. They were naive and almost definitely going to walk into someone while distracted by all the stalls. It was going to be a disaster.
She sighed softly, stretching as she heard voices through the comms. She'd already taken up position - her loops wasn't too long, concentrating more on the centre and around a lot of the stalls. She didn't know why she was in a heavily populated area. Still, in the RAVEN issue armour her accidentally copying someone's power was hardly a risk.
"Mimic checking in. In position and starting my route." She started walking, mostly zoning out the people around her. It wasn't going to be a particularly relaxing event representing RAVEN. Still, she could do it.
Strong Gold Community, Silver Hills Lihn was already exhausted. They had arrived at the tail end of the speech due to leaving the house a lot later than expected. She hadn't planned to bring Thanh, even going to the hassle of organising a babysitter. But then the babysitter had called off as ill (only half an hour before she was meant to arrive) leaving Lihn with a far too energetic child who should be going to bed in an hour.
Not to mention Kei's general lack of willingness to come out. He'd try to claim he couldn't control his power enough and would make everything colder. Lihn wasn't having any of it and had dragged him out anyway.
"Kay kay, what's that!" Thanh giggled slightly as she pointed at one of the stalls.
"That's fried shrimp, Tani," Kei shook his head with bemusement, looking at the little girl who had insisted on being in his arms (she could see everything better up there, she had proclaimed loudly).
"It looks funny," she continued to giggle, looking at the strange food. Shrimp had never particularly been on the menu in the Phan household.
"Do you want to try some," Kei smiled softly and Thanh nodded furiously.
When they headed back over to where Lihn was standing, glancing around the generally taller crowd, Thanh was happily munching on a plate piled with shrimp.
"You almost look like you're enjoying yourself, Kei," Lihn teased as her brother stole one of his niece's shrimp, both laughing at her hurt face.
"Not because of the festival," he responded with a slight roll of the eyes, taking more of Thanh's shrimp. They were good, he liked seafood and there was no way she'd eat them all. He didn't even feel guilty as she pouted at him. He did feel just a little guilty when he finished them a short while later as the small family wandered around.
"Mommy, mommy, carry me," Thanh waved her arms out towards Lihn, squirming in Kei's arms. He quickly handed her over before she started kicking his chest as she had the last time he'd try to keep carrying her when she didn't want him to. Thanh was a sweet child, but far too demanding sometimes.
Lihn took Thanh with a slight frown. "Do you not want to walk, and hold my hand? Mommy's getting a bit of a headache." And she was. The constant buzz in the back of her mind was a bit too much. This was why she avoided incredibly crowded places like this.
"Is it..." Kei began softly, stopping as Lihn nodded. His sister had quite a level of control over her empathy but it was hard to ignore the emotions of the masses of people that were here.
I'll be fine, don't worry," she responded with a faint smile, switching to Vietnamese. Just in case anyone nearby happened to be listening to their conversation.
"As long as no one nearby get's extremely angry, or sad, or the like."Kei nodded, Thanh looking up her mother with wide dark green eyes.
"Just say if it gets too much, and we can head home. We'll go out another time... the three of us." Kei knew that was the real reason Lihn had dragged him out here. She wanted to spend time with him since he spent most of his time cooped up without socialising. It was just an excuse. He appreciated the effort, he really did.
Lihn didn't get a chance to say anything in response, as Thanh's happy shout came first. "Let's go over there! There are toys! I want to look at the toys!" And so they went where she dictated they go.
Strong Gold Community, Silver Hills "Whoa," Rori couldn't help themselves from speaking as they looked with wide eyes at the celebration. There were so many people! It was so cool! This was going to be so fun. It was a shame they couldn't spend it with Max but they'd make the most of it. Maybe they'd see someone else they knew. Not that they knew many people.
What if Wendy was here! That would be so cool. Rori hoped that they bumped into Wendy (not literally, they had a bad habit of doing that). But even if they didn't maybe they'd make new friends. There would be some much to write about when they got back home.
Rori was practically bouncing with enthusiasm as they moved through the crowds of people, squeezing through small spaces to manage to get a look at the stalls. There was so much to see. And so many people. It was difficult for them too look around, feeling slightly self conscious as they had to constantly turn their head. At least they could see further away than most people could. And the scarf around their neck hid all of their feathers. It would be fine. Nobody was looking at them anyway.
After only a short while of walking about, somehow managing not to bump into anyone, they looked about for a less crowded area. Approaching the outer edges of the festival they stopped and pulled a sketchbook and pencil out of the small bag they had with them. They always got kind of inspired when at events like this so they tended to have something to draw with with them.
Deciding to just stay standing out of the way Rori began to draw what was around them, soon becoming engrossed in this and not noticing people around them.
Atrophy,
Evil Ghost Note,
Neziul,
Tesserach,
DrDistasteful,
Simply Not Real,
Cosmic,
Ohm,
VenusSundew
