Koa
"I know, we gotta catch up after this!" The smile he gives to Ever is only the faintest bit strained, Koa legitimately grateful for the coffee and using that gratitude to mask his nerves. Everest doesn't look infected - though admittedly, Koa has no idea how 'infected' is meant to look. He's pictured veins of sickly purple crisscrossing Ever's temples. A violet glow in those analytical eyes. Tentacles, even (which can't be ruled out, given they're all bundled against the chill of early Spring).
But Everest looks like... well, like Everest. Perhaps with a couple inches of reduction in the stick up his ass.
Shaking off the uncertainty, he's happy to let Zavien step in on the clean-up-slash-make-Ever-hold-a-shiny duty. Instead he trudges after Lena and Mittens, grimacing at the mess. "Damn kids," he says, though not as harshly as might be expected. He'd been a kid not so long ago, after all, and though as a Dragoon he'll never admit it, has maybe even had a hand in the annual prank.
He also has a history of helping to clean it, of course. Even when he was significantly younger, Anju and his mother would never let him skimp on post-LongNight cleanup.
"Guess it's scoopin' time." Koa grimaces, eyeing the sticky not-water with open disgust. There's plenty of buckets available for manual draining, which is what Koa sets about. Small buckets are used to scoop, the water deposited into larger barrels, later to be delivered Gods-know-where. Even Pipsqueak lends a claw, flying buckets of water back and forth.
Meanwhile the garbage boys get collecting, with Zavien laying down his trap. Which seems like a great plan- that is, until a cloud wyrm appears from out of nowhere, squirming out from a nest of trash to snatch up the dropped ring!
Fountain crew - get to bucketing out that 'water'. It's sticky and gross. Ew.
Garbage Bois - a mischevious cloud wyrm has run off with Safrin's ring! Oh no!
But Everest looks like... well, like Everest. Perhaps with a couple inches of reduction in the stick up his ass.
Shaking off the uncertainty, he's happy to let Zavien step in on the clean-up-slash-make-Ever-hold-a-shiny duty. Instead he trudges after Lena and Mittens, grimacing at the mess. "Damn kids," he says, though not as harshly as might be expected. He'd been a kid not so long ago, after all, and though as a Dragoon he'll never admit it, has maybe even had a hand in the annual prank.
He also has a history of helping to clean it, of course. Even when he was significantly younger, Anju and his mother would never let him skimp on post-LongNight cleanup.
"Guess it's scoopin' time." Koa grimaces, eyeing the sticky not-water with open disgust. There's plenty of buckets available for manual draining, which is what Koa sets about. Small buckets are used to scoop, the water deposited into larger barrels, later to be delivered Gods-know-where. Even Pipsqueak lends a claw, flying buckets of water back and forth.
Meanwhile the garbage boys get collecting, with Zavien laying down his trap. Which seems like a great plan- that is, until a cloud wyrm appears from out of nowhere, squirming out from a nest of trash to snatch up the dropped ring!
Fountain crew - get to bucketing out that 'water'. It's sticky and gross. Ew.
Garbage Bois - a mischevious cloud wyrm has run off with Safrin's ring! Oh no!
it struck me that the two of us could run
