Thaum: The Azure Sea
Estelle hugged Marcus goodbye, as he and Atlas departed The Azure Sea restaurant to go with Dr. Dream and watch him perform his research, Estelle wondering to herself how she had never before seen a braver man then Marcus. To willingly go and sit yourself down in front of all that complicated gobbledygook that arose from anything to do with science… it took a person of strong courage and resolve to do that. She HATED it. And so, to see Marcus willingly go on their behalf (whilst keeping Dr. Dream safe), giving her and the rest of them time to wander around Thaum and relax… she was thankful. It would have been even better if she could Marcus go with her, but they could always relax in Thaum for a spell after the mission was over. For now, she had to agree with the scientist and her friends, in that seeing either the Coliseum or the Garden was something for them to look forward to.
But which?
To anyone else, the Coliseum should have sounded like the natural home for Estelle’s interests to wander to. And yet she wanted to save that for later, when Marcus was back with her. For now, her eyes turned to Lisette, and to Kapi and Isaac. A relaxing time at the Garden sounded just as heavenly, and would have made for a nice break from everything they had been through of late. As much as Los Paraisos was meant to be a vacation of sorts… it proved to be anything but. She needed a little break.
“Hey Lisette, you wanna go to the Garden with me and Xan?” Estelle asked, cleaning up what little was left of her plate and reaching to nuzzle Kapi and Isaac in her arms. “It sounds like it’ll be fun! Right, Trixie?”
“Hey, Don, where are you going to go?”
Syed had asked the still perplexed and bewildered man, who continued to stare and scrutinise Lute in disbelief, and was promptly at first ignored by him. Syed had to ask a couple more times and actually nudge him before Don would react. Startled back into reality, Don blinked profusely as he turned his body around to look towards Syed.
“Huh? Lightbro? What’s up?”
“I asked where you were going to go, the Coliseum or Garden?”
“The what or huh?” Don repeated. “Where’s everyone else going?”
Thaum: Outside the Azure Sea
“It shouldn’t be too far, I think,” Estelle’s feet clipped and clopped along the cobblestone floor as she dashed forwards from the restaurant, Xan gripped tightly in one hand and forced to match her pace, with another of her friends’ gripped in the other. Estelle had designated herself as the group’s guide, despite not knowing where she was going. She had a vague idea of where it was located from her and Marcus’ visit to Thaum before, but that had been so long ago, and Estelle was… not the best of orienteer.
“It’s this way!” She screamed, pulling her friends in the wrong direction. Fortunately Xan had decided to take a map of the town when they first arrived, to help them avoid getting lost like this. But stopping Estelle was… going to be a challenge.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.” Don’s head shook from side to side, his pompadour swaying dramatically, before he then lifted the rest of his head up and grinned towards the rest of the group who were planning on going to the Gardens with him. “Silly Big Sis. Doesn’t she know the Gardens are this way?”
Don thumbed over his shoulder, and with a stylish spin and twist, set his foot off down the street in the opposite direction to where he was sure the Gardens were. Haplessly unknowing that, again, he was going in the wrong direction. Oh well… both groups would arrive there eventually, right? With a beautiful garden home to exquisitely crafted and tended to hedge cuttings and flower arrangements, a grove filled with a variety of nature’s wonder and beauty and spectacular stores of the shining vista in wait, they couldn’t miss it at all… could they?
