IT IS A NEW YEAR

[garmentgoddess]

When: Dec 31st
Where: Commons
What: PARTY
Who: EVERYONE IS INVITED



Rene hung the last of the party decorations over the door and quickly put the ladder away. The tables were set with various edibles, the curtains were crisp and ironed, the paper decorations were festive and cute, and the year was about to change.

2017 though? What a strange number. She wondered what their calendar was based on. No matter, a celebration was always a good time.

Comments

[punchtheboner]

"You're too kind," she smiled down at him beaming. "I just want to make sure everyone is well taken care of you know? If I don't, I hope someone else will and so on. We're familia you know? It's what we do." And she did miss her family back in Kanto, but that wouldn't stop her from taking care of those here.

[wildtrail]

"And tell me... Do you have anyone here taking care of you?" he asked, looking up at her where she sat perched on his shoulders.

[twistingyourreality]

A friendship was unlikely, not easy anyways with the way they seemed to work their personalities but an alliance was definitely worth it as far as Nightgale was concerned. In the end, she could use him just as well as she knew he could use her and that was fine as long as it was mutually beneficial. "Gooood" she sensually hissed near his ear as she grazed her cheek against his before slithering over his body until she was in front and facing him.

"Here's to a powerful partnership." she grinned mischievously.

[punchtheboner]

"Of course silly, we all watch over each other." she mused but she knew what he was implying but that didn't mean this old Marowak couldn't play coy.

[wildtrail]

"Of course," he replied with a chuckle. "But what of your wants and needs? Does anyone see to them for you?" he asked curiously, raising an eyebrow.

[withmindbullets]

This was very new, but rather pleasant. He didn't know whether they COULD be friends. He didn't know if anyone could be his friend, truly. But they shared a fair bit in common. And solitude did wear on him... Her proximity was intoxicating. Perhaps it was her Dark nature overpowering his own nature. But he liked it.

"A very powerful partnership," he replied huskily, eyes narrowing as he stared down into hers.

[punchtheboner]

"Wants and needs? Whatever do you mean?" she couldn't even hide and keep a straight face but she still played it out knowing he was already onto her.

[twistingyourreality]

Dark clawed hands grasped his chin unnaturally gently as her cheshire grin played on the shadows created around them. "Well then partner, let's start the year right hm? We've been lonely for a while and I can think of a few things to seal this truce." she was now dangerously close, her lips a mere breath away and her words made small breaths of sweet and spicy swirl around their proximity.

[wildtrail]

"Is there any special someone in your life, Miss Mawrow?" Ujarak asked, making himself clear to her as he reached up to hold her steady on his shoulders.

[punchtheboner]

Mawrow smiled, a smaller more gentler smile down at the Tauren. "No señor Uja, not for a very long time." Her voice was soft but not in a sad manner but more as someone who has loved and lost and it was a pleasant parting with fond memories.

[wildtrail]

He took a deep breath and sighed slowly. "I understand," he replied. "More than you might think." His mind drifted to thoughts of his wife and son, long gone now but always close to his heart. His grip on her tightened somewhat, and he looked up at her again. "Tonight though, we have each other. Perhaps it's time we left?" he suggested. "To continue this somewhere more private..."

[punchtheboner]

Mawrow smiled in understanding. "We do. A nice quite private place sounds like a nice way to end the night, or morning." Depending on where things led.

"Lead the way my new friend."

[wildtrail]

Ujarak nodded. "As you command," he said with a sly smile up at her, carrying her towards the mansion. It was a little too cool outside for what he had in mind, and he felt she might prefer more comfortable surroundings. So with a quick inquiry, he set off towards her room in the mansion...

[trustycrowbar]

"Well... it's a nonzero chance." He added with a shrug. "But in any case, I don't think she'll mind."

He gazes away at the glittery cloud descending the snack table. "...Is it me, or are there more of more of your star... lings... than before?"

[ladyoftheshootingstars]

"But is it something you'd WANT to happen...? I-I mean you and I, not myself and Shantae," Rosalina asked hesitantly.

The shift of topics gave her a bit of relief as she could speak on something with more authority than her love life. "Yes, there are... It would seem wherever we are in the cosmos, there are Lumas here as well. And they've gravitated towards me," she explained.

[trustycrowbar]

Oh don't worry, Rosie,he'll come back to the topic. But for now...

"'Gravitated?' Was that deliberate, it did you make that pun my accident?"

[ladyoftheshootingstars]

Now she could smile again, feeling her confidence return. "A happy accident, I assure you," she commented with a small laugh. "Lumas are drawn to me. Wherever they are. I suppose all children long for a home..."

[trustycrowbar]

"Lumas? Right, that's what they're called." He reminds himself. "And do they all actually become stars? Far as I knew, The process involved more gravity and dust, and gamma rays and neutrinos..."

He trails off, watching lumas play catch with a jawbreaker.

"It isn't so, you know... Cute, either."

[ladyoftheshootingstars]

"So I've heard," Rosalina said, nodding. "Yes, it's true, Lumas are baby stars. They will eat, they will grow, and when their time comes they will transform. Some will become comets, some will become planets, some will become stars... Some will even become entire galaxies."

[trustycrowbar]

"I guess it's going to take a helluva lot more candy for any of them to become a galaxy..."

He's actually being facetious, but he doesn't realize how close to the truth he actually is.

[mach_n_roll]

"Why? You wanna find out?"

He knows what she's doing, sort of; he knows at least that, like everything else about her, this is a challenge, and not one that he's going to back down from.

[babylonmechanic]

The last thing she SHOULD be doing is provoking this. She had her own love life to think about. Well, such as it was and as non-existent as it was. She'd made enough foolish decisions, and clearly she wasn't done making them.

"That depends," she said with a challenging smirk. "You offering?" It was like a game of chicken, in a way.

[ladyoftheshootingstars]

She laughed softly at that, smiling for him in that soft, mysterious way she did. "You're not that far off," she told him. "Lumas primarily eat Star Bits. The more they eat, the closer they come to being able to transform. It's not uncommon for a luma to gorge itself on star bits to change right away," she explained.

[trustycrowbar]

That sounds, in a rather comforting way to him, like stars accumulating dust and matter. Maybe this isn't so strange after all...

"Since we're on a floating island, are star bits hard to find here?"

[trustycrowbar]

That's what she said.

No, really. That's actually what she said, and that drink is already enlightening him to the unintentional double entendre.

"Absolutely."

A few drinks, and it doesn't take long for "absolutely" to turn into "ab... sssssolutelh." Which he actually slurs, as he hands her another.

"Y'know... Ur beautifll. Ah juss... I juss wanted t'say that." He adds.