The worst thing about always being on the move...
He couldn't help but smile at seeing the finished lantern Ray had made, nodding at it. "I ain't the best judge, but I'd say it looks good," he said with a small chuckle before looking down at the drawing in front of him. He had a hell of a drawing in front of him and he needed to make it at least work in the form of a paper lantern...The first thing he did, however, was make the shape of the lantern, using metal wiring to create the shape which seemed to be almost like a rounded pyramid with extensions to allow for additional branches of the tree this would be. As he made it, he hoped these wouldn't really have to float...because he confessed to himself in his head that this probably wasn't. Likely was going to be too heavy. Not that he'd mind it, he'd probably keep it for himself and hang it if he ever figured out a more-permanent place for himself to stay.
Once the shape was made, he used the paint thinners and the blended colors of blue, purple and green to make the papers he was going to use to cover most of the lantern with appear as crystalline as possible. The colors were made as transparent, but still visible, as possible to allow for the light to still shine through. He then wrapped the papers around the wire framing with care, allowing for air to flow to avoid suffocating whatever candle may be placed into the center later. He then repeated the process a few times to create the branches, making look more and more like a tree made from living crystal.
He then cut slivers in the paper to allow the light within to shine through it before making figures of the ones he drew before.
The floating, long-tailed cat which was pained to be a pink color with large blue eyes.
The man in the ornate hooded robe, with the robe revealed to be multiple shades of blue while the man himself was pale in skin color.
Himself and another that could pass as his twin intertwined with backs to each other, the twin wearing a pure-purple version of the suit-attire that Neos wore and red eyes instead of green.
A calm-looking female teen with long hair past her waist wearing a dress that covered most of her shape next to a younger male with his hands thrown up to the air with energy. Both of them had brown hair and pale skin, but the girl had violet eyes and the boy had yellow eyes. The girl wore a mostly-grey dress with yellow bands around the neck, wrists and waist. The boy had a white shirt, brown shorts and a yellow scarf around his neck.
The humanoid alligator, wearing flowing light attire and ornate decoration on his head depicting a snake, the colors of the attire being primarily white with accents of gold and red while the figure himself had dark-grey scales.
The giant of a man about Neos's height, painted with brown skin and black armor ornated with gold holding up on a single arm a figure that was not even half his height. She was almost white in comparison, her skin was only minorly-darker in color than her white hair and attire, the latter accented with the pink of her dress and the former adorned with a golden crown.
Once they were shaped around simple wire frames meant to keep them in place and painted, he carefully set them into the tree in various places near where he cut the slivers to allow light through...then painted a set of metal wires to be a light blue color before gently connecting all of the beings in it to one another. Only once he was done did he look back and say with a sheepish chuckle, "...I think I went a tiny bit overboard."
...is that no one believes the tales that emerge later on.
NEOS
