It is about 65/span>/b/span18C) degrees. The mist is heaviest At Birch and Lynch/span>/spanKai rolls his eyes a bit after he shows his phone’s screen to Rain.

Kai hmms and looks to Mirabel, “You know, Miss Kane, Nemi was just telling me how she wanted to be your first dance of the night at the party!

Nemi then glares to Kai with ‘You’re a dead man walking.’.

Nemi has that kind of look in her eyes, she said nothing.

“Was she?” Mirabel asks and looks from Kai to Nemi and back, raising her eyebrows. “I suppose there’s no reason she can’t have the first dance.”

“Oh I heard that too.” Rain looks to Nemi, a cheeky hitch to one side of her lips.

“Kai wants to be the second,” Rain tells Mirabel, “He’s adament.”

Kai finds a song and lifts his hands above his head to play it at top volume for the pair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFx-5PGLgb4&list=RDiFx-5PGLgb4&start_radio=1

Nemi slips her phone away with a nod as she holds her hand out for Mirabel.

“Goodness gracious, I should have worn flat shoes if I knew all sorts of people expected a dance,” Mirabel remarks and adjusts her glasses. “Oh–right now? Very well,” she supposes and sets her gift box down in order to take Nemi’s hand.

Rain shows Kai something on her phone.

Nemi chuckles softly. “Well I prefer mens dress shoes over heels- mostly style but also they are much easier to fight in or dance in.” She states with a firm nod.

“If we’re lucky, there won’t be any more fighting than necessary,” Mirabel remarks and gives Nemi a jovial grin. She takes the student’s hand in her right and puts the other on her hip, setting into motion.

Rain looks up from her phone, shooting Lykaia a bright smile and an overly enthusiastic wave, “Hi! Come have a cupcake!”

Kai gives a wave to Lykaia and greets her, “Hey Lykaia. This is Rain, Nemi, and obviously Miss Kane,” he indicates Rain, Nemi and Mirabel in turn.

Rain reaches out and steals a strawberry from the platter on the table.

Lykaia enters and glances someone over for a second longer specifically, until being greeted and Kai does the introduction. “I was running a quick scan. That makes it easier. Hi. How’s it going everyone?” She does hold on to a drink in her left.

Nemi smiles softly, sort of slow dancing with the teacher as she chuckles softly, deep down she’s got the ability to move at least, and knows how to slow dance to this sort of music quite well.

Lykaia enters and glances Rain over for a second longer specifically, until being greeted and Kai does the introduction. “I was running a quick scan. That makes it easier. Hi. How’s it going everyone?” She does hold on to a drink in her left.

Having already embarked on a lighthearted, motherly sort of dance with Nemi, Mirabel glances distractedly at Lykaia and says, “Good evening! Please don’t also demand a dance or I’ll end up out of breath.”

Rain catches Nemi’s look, grinning gently as she eats the birthday cake she picked up instead of a strawberry it seems.

“You definitely have to dance with her Lykaia. I have to DJ, so…” Kai lowers his phone from the air and flips around, searching for a second song before the first ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFx-5PGLgb4&list=RDiFx-5PGLgb4&start_radio=1 ) ends.

“I don’t think she could keep up when I start throwing her.” Lykaia answers to Kai, looking away for a second and very obviously blinking once before looking back to Kai, then to Mirabel. “Happy Birthday, miss Miranda.”

Kai finds the second song and lets it blare from his phone, grinning a little and peers over to Lykaia, “Uhh….” he nods slowly at her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJmXeod0RE&list=RDZdJmXeod0RE&start_radio=1 rings out from his phone and he bobs his head to it.

Annabelle joins the birthday party, worming a stick of black licorice into a pocket, trying to find a smile amidst her glazed look. “Hey, Miss Kane. Enough people asked if I was coming that I came over from the medical bay. Happy biirthday.”

“Let’s say that was one dance,” Mirabel tells Nemi after leading her about for the duration of the song. She gives the student a breezy smile and turns to look over the more recent arrivals. “Miss Lee! It’s good to see you. Thank you, dear.”

Nemi smiles and nods softly to Mirabel, chuckling as once the song ends she lets the teacher go, letting them go back about to mingling with the others as she heads for a cupcake now that she’s free.

“Avalon and Annabelle!” Kai greets Avalon and Annabelle in turn, “This is Rain, Nemi, Miss Mirabel Kane and Lykaia,” he nods to Rain, Nemi, Mirabel and Lykaia in turn, then scrambles to try to find a third song while the second starts to wind down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJmXeod0RE&list=RDZdJmXeod0RE&start_radio=1 is the currently playing song)

Rain perches her butt on the edge of the table, texting away on her phone. Looking up, Rain smiles to Avalon and Annabelle widely, “Hi! Welcome to Ms Kane’s birthday party! Have a cupcake!”

“Mhm.” Annabelle agrees with each of these names, more or less, following figures without a nod for sake of her head wound.

“Avalon! You probably want the next dance right?” Kai asks as he scoots his way down along the table to sit by Rain.

Avalon lifts his hand in greeting as he makes his way into the building, glancing around the place before taking a look at the different people around, before telling Kai “Yeah, I know most of them” He says with a nod of his own, before blinking a couple times and saying “I don’t really dance”

Lykaia turns around and focuses on Avalon in particular. “Good afternoon, Avalon. How’s it going? Any estimation on when the upcoming mission is to happen?”

Mirabel peers curiously at the rainbow sprinkles and shrugs to herself. Peeling back the crinkled wrapper, she takes a bite after telling Rain, “I tried the sample slice of the cake yesterday while watching a movie. Delicious. I had to take my glasses off so as not to get icing on them.”

Rain smiles easily at Mirabel, “Oh yeah? Best to eat the main cake with your glasses off. But I can’t think of a reason to suggest that for you now, so I’m going to turn round and pretend Kai called me.” She turns round, lifting her eyes to Kai.

Avalon tells Lykaia on the side “Weekend, not sure if Saturday or Sunday… I can check that group thingy on the phone”

“Oh! Before I forget,” Mirabel says and picks up the gift box again. Smiling enthusiastically, she unwraps it.

“Goodness,” Mirabel remarks.

Kai heads to the next song and winces, he holds up his phone a bit more while it blares https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuWkVqum6a8 from its speakers. He glances sidelong to Rain and grins at her a little, then looks to Mirabel, “I saw it and I knew you would look great in it, Miss Kane!” he calls over the music.

“Kai!” Rain gasps, looking at Kai at ‘his’ choice of gift.

“Sunday is going to be busy.” Lykaia sighs out loud and answers Avalon. “Weekends always are busy. Work, meet, relayed meet, and then more in the morning.”

Annabelle gets stuck on her phone, some terrible, line-drawing work setting on her forehead and bringing her slowly to a small table to sit down.

“Well, it’s certainly pretty,” Mirabel decides and gives Kai and Rain a slightly bemused smile. “Thank you, you two. I’ll try it on as soon as I get home tonight.”

“Well, let’s see if Saturday then” Avalon sighs out as he reaches for his phone, pausing to think for a brief moment before tapping away on it awfully slow, not looking like he has much idea of what he’s doing

“Woo!” Kai calls and waves at Mercy, “Hey Mercy!” he says, his phone still playing a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuWkVqum6a8 as he sits near Rain, “That’s the birthday girl, Miss Kane, celebrating her twenty fifth again and this is Rain, who is the mastermind of the party and who made the cakes!” he tells Mercy, nodding to Mirabel and Rain in turn.

Mercy sweeps in like she’s on a covert mission to the bar, head ducked low, but Kai notices her anyway and with a resigned huff she flicks up a little wave and acknowledges the two women introduced with a nod. “Ayeah, met miss Kane at the little demo class.”

“Any time after those meets can work but who knows how long they will last.” Lykaia tells to Avalon, hand placing over her hip. “First is at three afternoon. Will have to withdraw from Zone-twelve early then. Hoping they will be no longer than three. Then it is two hours open, maximum three. Sat should work fine. Nothing on plan. Yet.”

Kai scrambles on his phone to find another song when the third one ends, he taps away, dead silence filling the room aside from the bustle of the party goers before he settles on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLequ6dUdM and blares it.

Nemi nods softly, chuckling a bit as she looks over the cake as she smiles, looking at everyone here.

“Thank you very much, young lady. I see that you decided to enroll. Good!” Mirabel says and smiles amiably at Mercy. “Now, let’s see about cutting the birthday cake.”

“Yes, give or take,” Mirabel remarks and grins lightheartedly at Mercy. She finds a cake knife somewhere, it being a restaurant, and steps over to the birthday cake. “Who wants a slice?”

Nemi coughs softly. “Birthday person should get the first slice.” She states with a nod.

Avalon seems to finish with the phone, discarding it back to a pocket while cursing it in the form of mutters, before telling Lykaia “Right… I’m not good at organizing people, this is a pain- I can normally do most stuff on my own” He says, before glancing around to lift a hand in greeting of Mercy, that arrived while he was distracted, and putting some attention on the food once the cake is mentioned

Nemi waves softly to Arachne as she smiles. “Welcome to the party!”

“So be it!” Mirabel tells Nemi and helps herself to the first slice, placing it neatly on a plate as opposed to just gnawing from the side of the whole cake which isn’t something that takes place.

With a massive gift bag shrouding something distinctly canvas-shaped, Arachne sweeps in, a glittering smile blooming over plush, glossed lips. “Now, where is the fabulous birthday matron, Mis. Kane?” she queries, scanning over the crowd before she catches sight of Mirabel and closes in. “Happy birthday, darling.”

Kai holds up his phone after moving on to the next song, yet another minute or so of silence because he clearly didn’t prepare a playlist and holds the phone up to blare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBkHHoOIIn8

“Oh! Thank you, Miss Fairchild-Montrose,” Mirabel says after wiping her mouth with a napkin. She frees her hands in anticipation and peers nosily at the gift bag. “You know, I didn’t actually intend to celebrate my birthday–but I made the mistake of letting it slip to these youngsters that it was today, so I woke up to the discovery that I was having a party.”

“It’s like herding sheep.” Lykaia tells Avalon with a slight and quick nod. “Not enjoying that either. Easy with full-times, but most people to work with here, aren’t that. Less to do with good, more to do with it just being sheep herding and it being annoying.”

Mercy returns Avalon’s wave before turning to brace a hip into the nearest table and fish her phone from a jacket pocket.

“Well, no, herding sheep is easier… I’ve done it before” Avalon tells Lykaia with a nod on the side “People are just complicated” He resolves while putting his attention on the chicken, and reaching with a hand he defaults to that over the cake

“Make sure you all try the cake!” Mirabel insists, glancing up and down the table while she reaches for her plate to have another bite. She pauses, squinting nearsightedly at the candy sprinkles. “Miss Hollow, might I ask you a question?”

“That is just a demonstration of how beloved you are to your students, Miss Kane. Appreciate that you have so many people who come together to celebrate you,” Arachne encourages Mirabel with a humored smile, setting the gift bag down with care for the woman of the hour to peruse at her own leisure. “I see some faces I haven’t spoken to in a while, so I’m going to make my rounds and say hello.” She turns, brightening at the sight of Nemi, whom she wiggles her fingers towards before waving over to someone and someone, then Avalon and Lykaia more warmly, before she sashays on.

“That is just a demonstration of how beloved you are to your students, Miss Kane. Appreciate that you have so many people who come together to celebrate you,” Arachne encourages Mirabel with a humored smile, setting the gift bag down with care for the woman of the hour to peruse at her own leisure. “I see some faces I haven’t spoken to in a while, so I’m going to make my rounds and say hello.” She turns, brightening at the sight of Nemi, whom she wiggles her fingers towards before waving over to Rain and Kai, then Avalon and Lykaia more warmly, before she sashays on.

“Make sure you all try the cake!” Mirabel insists, glancing up and down the table while she reaches for her plate to have another bite. She pauses, squinting nearsightedly at the candy sprinkles. “Miss Hollow, might I ask you a question?” (re)

Mercy attempts to order something with a waiter she flags down, which ends with him walking away and her blank expression souring a touch.

“Uuuugh,” Kai groans when his girlfriend walks out, he holds his phone up to play another song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s as he looks around the interior of the party, a little grin on his face.

“Manner of speaking.” Lykaia replies to Avalon, making a firmer nod. She takes a sip from her drink. “Tends to be time schedules and people issues. With sheep you have full-time assistance if you got a dog to help herding them. Can’t apply same method in the given structure.”

“I’ll be sure to confront her about these candy sprinkles in the morning,” Mirabel informs Kai with a slightly pinched expression and picks up Arachne’s gift bag. “Now, let’s see here.”

Mercy seeks out Kai in the modest crowd and tries to get his attention with an upnod- because anything more than that is apparently too much effort.

Mirabel carefully pulls the painting out of the bag and holds it out in front of herself, peering curiously at it. “Goodness,” she remarks in surprise. “There’s a lot to unpack here, but that’s excellent work. Did you paint this, Miss Fairchild-Montrose, or did you manage to whip young Mister Pierce into action?”

“I was the dog when herding them” Avalon adds in response to Lykaia, seemingly missing the point of what’s she’s saying “I skipped a step there…” Then he glances towards the noisy bag for a moment, thinking intently before realizing “Oh, I do also have something… But much simpler” And after saying that, and not really showing what he has, he instead reaches for some more chicken

“It does, doesn’t it?” Mirabel tells Annabelle with a mild nod. “Very evocative! Thank you.”

“I may have pulled a string or two to pull one of Mister Pierce’s pieces as a gift,” Arachne dimples her cheeks at Mirabel with a conspiratorial smile, though her attention shifts back to Avalon and Lykaia as she draws near the courtiers. “Avalon, Lykaia. It’s good to see you both being sociable.” A shift of her gaze to Avalon. “I didn’t realize you knew Miss Kane as well.”

Kai peers at Mercy and shakes his head a ther belatedly, he flips around and then picks a new song, holding his hands up to let it blare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfg6-4mBs6Y

“Don’t you want some cake, dear?” Mirabel asks Annabelle and gives her shoulder a squeeze. “It’ll cheer you right up.”

“Yeah, she took my life force once…” Avalon tells Arachne on the side, not seeming to give it too much importance right now, focusing on finishing the bit of meat before adding “Oh, and she pointed me the hospital on another occassion”

Mercy sucks her teeth at Kai, her disappointment evident, and tries to soothe that blow by focusing on the cake instead.

“Uh-huh.” Lykaia answers to Avalon, looking down to her phone. Her eyes narrow before she randomly mentions “Sometimes there’s the desire to just throw up a neutralizer at a party and to just watch the chaos that could happen. You should try it, Avalon.” She slides her phone into a pocket of her jacket and looks at Arachne. “Good evening, your highness. Just going around, see where the city takes me for an evening.”

Nemi is currently nibbling on a cupcake as she chuckles softly, smiling happily as she nibbles it.

Rain walks back in, heading to Kai, “Have you danced with Ms Kane yet?”

Annabelle lifts her head to appear otherwise, fixing the brim of her beanie back over an ear. “My mood’s okay. I’m just hospital-material at the moment, but I didn’t wanna show up to your birthday hiiiigh.” She laments with a sharp inhale of breath. “Thanks though! I’ll get better eventually. I like the noises everyone’s making.”

Arachne’s brows lift marginally at Avalon’s words. “I suppose that’s …” Words fail the monarch, so she simply allows a gorgeous smile to curve her lips anew. “I’m glad you’re out making friends,” she decides on that, for both him and Lykaia, then shifts to slip out. “Excuse me.”

“Now, there’s no sense dwelling on the past,” Mirabel tells Avalon noncommittally and finds a safe place to set the painting for the time being. “Ah. Miss Hollow, could you explain the decisionmaking behind that particular choice of candy sprinkles on the cake?”

Lykaia has to let out a laugh and turns back to Avalon “We are out making friends, Avalon.”

“I wouldn’t say f-” Avalon starts to tell the woman, but she leaves halfway through it, so he shrugs his shoulders and tells Lykaia “I suppose. She doesn’t like that I go to hunt more than to meet people. And for reference, I’m a hunter for her family- Oh, bodyguard” He corrects towards the end of the sentence, nodding his head. Then he finally focuses back on Mirabel and informs her “I was just- I’m not dwelling, I just told her how we met” He says before standing up, looking through his bag, and taking a book from it, handing it over to Mirabel and adding “There… I didn’t even curse it” And just like that, he slowly returns to his seat

Rain looks over to Mirabel, eyes wide as she smiles, “The sparkly ones? I usually reserve them for -really- special birthdays Ms Kane. Just because they add a little.. WHAM to the frosting.”

Kai wanders out to grab a drink and passes it back to Mercy, he heads back to Rain and shakes his head, “Nah I haven’t danced with her yet, too busy trying to find music,” he grins at Rain and someone a little.

Kai wanders out to grab a drink and passes it back to Mercy, he heads back to Rain and shakes his head, “Nah I haven’t danced with her yet, too busy trying to find music,” he grins at Rain and Mirabel a little.

“Well, that’s very thoughtful of you. Thank you,” Mirabel tells Avalon, smiling earnestly while she reads the back of the book’s cover. “A little wham, huh?” she remarks to Rain in the meantime. “I suppose it does do that, but I’m not sure if tiny sugar genitals would have been my first impulse.”

Mercy slides a glance over to Avalon after overhearing something, considering him with a slightly more thoughtful stare, she seems about to say something when Kai puts a drink in her hand and everything else in the world ceases to have importance.

“Oh. You put on your glasses. Well… in my defense Ms Kane, that specific cake, I thought you’d be eating with the faculty and not with me,” Rain explains, with a warm and genuine smile, “So I wouldn’t have been there to be put on the spot. The cupcakes I made without the tiny glitter dicks.”

Nemi coughs softly as she walks over to Mirabel. Nodding softly she reaches into her bag and pulls out a G- a potted flower!

Nemi nods softly.

“No worries. I got it from a demon… I think” Avalon pauses to ponder after telling that to Mirabel, before focusing his attention back on the food, and telling Lykaia “Does she also give you the loner scoldings or is that just to me?” He asks as he reaches for some nachos this time

“Hm. I do believe you’ve earned yourself your first card, young lady,” Mirabel informs Rain, raising her chin primly. Her tone softens at the sight of Nemi’s gift, however, and she smiles warmly at the student. “Thank you very much, Miss Ivorstead. I’ll find a good place to put this in my house.”

“I put her up to it, Miss Kane. I wanted to make you blush,” Kai informs Mirabel and waggles his brows at Rain, “She’s just my accomplice,” he winks at Rain and leans up against her side.

“What! They were just a littl– see, Kai made me. He’s pretty oppressive as a boyfriend.” Rain side-eyes Kai.

“It’s true. I’ve mind controlled her to be my slave, she doesn’t have any agency of her own… so I should get that card,” Kai tells Mirabel, after Rain speaks, his head nodding a few times.

“I’ve heard him called clingy by some of his former girlfriends, but never oppressive,” Mirabel tells Rain pointedly and fishes the deck out of her handbag. With practiced dexterity, she fans it out in front of the student and adds, “Pick one.”

Annabelle watches Mirabel pull out the deck with a nascent widen of her eyes, shifting uncomfortably.

Rain glances askance at Kai, arm rising of its own accord as a finger settles on the card in the middle of Mirabel’s splayed out deck, “He is kinda clingy actually, but also terrible slave driving. I’m always hypnotized too. Really.”

Rain uses a lacquered deck of mystery cards: Hand over your phone for inspection. If your inbox is empty, draw two more cards.

Rain pulls out the card, her eyes widening, “Oh shit.”

“His irredeemable misogyny is something the two of you will have to work on at home,” Mirabel informs Rain and holds her hand out expectantly. “Your phone, young lady. It’s for your own good.”

“Can I not get a do-ver?” Rain asks, holding up the ‘hand over your phone for inspection’ card.

Nemi chuckles softly. Smiling happily as she looks over to Rain. “Nope.”

With a grimace towards Kai, Rain holds her phone out towards Mirabel, though her fingers pinch onto it rather tightly.

“Just to you, Avalon. With me it’s that I’m a stubborn bitch. But she tends to stick around and go through it, puts in the time when we are at a disagreement without any of the drama I despise.” Lykaia tells to Avalon, chuckling at something she reads when she checks her phone.

“You can draw two more if you wipe your text history.” Annabelle suggests tiredly from the table.

“Two!?” Rain asks, looking at Annabelle, “Alright, fine. But I’m pretty sure Kai sent like, thirty dick pics.”

“That’s *quite* the gamble,” Mirabel remarks to Annabelle and takes the phone, narrowing her eyes as she scrolls through Rain’s messages.

Kai looks from Rain to Mirabel and back, he winces and waggles his brows at her, “Only thirty?” he wonders.

Nemi chuckles softly.

“Ah. Well, glad to see it’s only me… It’s not my fault that I am capable and people are not” Avalon tells in response to Lykaia, shaking his head to the sides and saying “I’ll just assume it’s jealousy… Probably” He says without any conviction, probably just joking, before glancing towards Mirabel and asking “What’s even in those cards? Or in the phone?”

“By the stars,” Mirabel murmurs while snooping around in Rain’s phone. Whatever she was referring to, she eventually hands it back and tells the student, “See me tomorrow. I’ve got a few things to say about *that.*”

Rain shifts nervously, nudging a hip at Kai. Reaching out to take the phone back, Rain looks down at it, grimacing, “Yes Ms Kane.”

Nemi chuckles softly as she miles.

“Sometimes, they have to learn a bit of discipline and humility,” Mirabel mentions to the others at the table, even if half of them are students or the same age as them. “Now, have any of you heard any odd rumors around the Ivory Quarter? There’s something afoot.”

Annabelle looks back and forth between the couple. A brief, mirthful smile visits her eyes even if her mouth is covered. She doesn’t speak on it. “Cute.”

Rain speaks around a mouthful of cupcake, “Is that anything to do with this Hattie guy that text me Ms Kane?”

Nemi hums softly as she rubs her chin.

“Oh- I have to take care of that..” Annabelle mumbles, pulling out her phone once again, making a guttural note of exhaustion. “Not gonna gossip about it, but someone who’s no longer in the cult launched that and um. It’s sorta a pain.”

“I’m not entirely sure yet,” Mirabel answers Rain and purses her lips. “But it’ll be looked into.”

“He reckons he’s the entire cause of the disruption,” Rain says, “His words precisely, though.. you probably saw that. Never had something so monstrous swipe to date me.”

“Well, there’s a big suspicious library, but other than that…” Avalon shrugs his shoulders “Haven’t heard anything”

Rain grins at Kai, holding up his phone out of reach.

“Oh, there’s nothing suspicious about the Endless Library,” Mirabel assures Avalon after sampling the chocolate strawberries. “Professor Hale is a very respectable man.”

Kai shrugs at Rain and grins at her a little, “You pick the songs then,” he tells her, reaching over to prod her lightly in the side, laughing a little, “But yeah, what do you have to talk with her about? I don’t see anything all that unusual?” he asks Mirabel.

Annabelle stands up from her seat and makes off like the Irish, dealing with the busy details.

“You do hunt plenty, Avalon. It’s significant work without question. Should invest the time, too. But I’d get too bored.” Lykaia simply states as fact with the slightest nod. Rain’s mention of Hatti makes her do a quick exhale, but whatever commentary that drives it, she keeps to herself.

Nemi continues to nibble and slowly eat her cupcake.

Mercy comments aloud to Lykaia and by extent Avalon given their proximity, “Huntin’s a lot more fun than chit chat or what ever else people get up to.”

“I saw a book attack someone once, and the corridors change, that’s plenty suspicious” Avalon replies to Mirabel with a shake of his head, before he glances once more at Lykaia and points out “It’s not significant work… It’s easy, it’s fun, and I get to taste blood for once… This town is very restrictive about that”

“Do try the chocolate birthday cake if you haven’t already,” Mirabel mentions to someone and turns her attention back to Kai. “She can tell you that afterwards if she thinks you must know everything, Mister Ashford.”

“Do try the chocolate birthday cake if you haven’t already,” Mirabel mentions to Nemi and turns her attention back to Kai. “She can tell you that afterwards if she thinks you must know everything, Mister Ashford.”

Nemi shakes her head softly. “Too much chocolate…. Thank you though.” She says with a soft smile.

“He’ll just mind control it out of me,” Rain continues with the ruse.

“As one of our newest students, I’m certain you paid close attention to what happens to insolent students,” Mirabel tells Mercy in a chatty tone and drops the deck back into her handbag. “Rest assured that all of the cards are survivable.”

Kai nods in agreement with Rain, “It’s true. Until I get tired of her,” he agrees and glances sidelong to Rain, grinning a little at her.

Rain ensures the sharp bit of her elbow is felt by Kai’s ribs.

“Kind of. It’s more the affect that your contribution turn up to be worthless if you do.” Lykaia says, picking up a tiny violin from one of her pouches before letting it slide back in again. “Who would you even hunt, if it wasn’t restricted? Not a lot of big issue people around. Sixty-third isn’t worth hunting down. Monsters are a headache to deal with. Technically, only way to do it is to try and keep track of their activity… And count how long it’s around before getting a team together.”

Mercy snaps a glance up to Mirabel with some cupcake frosting smeared on her upper lip. “Er- ayeah, course. I ain’ insolent or nothin’, keep my head down an’ all that.”

“Ooo Teagan’s on her way, isn’t that great Miss Kane?” Kai asks Mirabel and laughs when Rain prods him with her elbow, “Unfortunately! I… have to go and since Rain’s my ride she better come with me,” he looks to Mercy and says, “Since you owe me one… how about you hang around and clean up once the aprty’s over?”

“Oh no,” Rain says to Kai, “I better drive you home immediately.”

“I’m glad to hear it,” Mirabel assures Mercy and turns her head to smile at Kai. “Yes it is. I haven’t seen her since she got back from her most recent trip to the hospital. Oh–good night, you two. Well done with all of this.”

Nemi nods softly as she overhears Mirabel.

Kai grins at Mirabel and waves at her, then runs off before Mercy can decline his request.

Mercy snorts at Kai but after a downward glance at the drink in her hand, she relents. “Can help a bit, sure.”