20-Nutcrackers (Dictated/Action)

[heal_theworld]

[Martel is wandering the halls of the castle, looking at all the decorations. This his her first Christmas here, really, because last Christmas she was in Paris, and had only just gotten her memories back. if she thought about it, she realized that it was next week sometime. She didn't know the exact date. She had been here for a year. It had seemed to go by so fast... It seemed only yesterday she had been confused as to why her journal had started talking to her.

She wasn't actually bothering too much to avoid the nutcrackers, because she really didn't mind being kissed that much. Oh, Yuan may mind, but it was just a castle trick and she thought it was silly to avoid them when they would just pop up anyway wherever.]

Is it always so pretty around Christmastime here? [It's more to herself than her journal, though.]

(ooc: open to planned and unplanned Kissmass kisses!)

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[fistfullofmagic]

[Dhaos on the other hand is very much not okay with being kissed by complete strangers. He's always been reserved around those he's not close with, and now... Well, he's mostly taken to avoiding people as much as possible. Still, he does have to eat on occasion, and so it's heading down to the kitchen that he runs into Martel.]

Ah, hello Lady Martel.

[heal_theworld]

Oh, hello, Dhaos. And Martel is fine, really. [Being called a lady will never seem right.]

[fistfullofmagic]

[He may never completely break the habit of referring to her by a title, but he will certainly try.]

Yes L- ...Martel.

[heal_theworld]

See, much better. [She smiles at him.] Now, what are you up to?

[fistfullofmagic]

Attempting to avoid the wooden soldiers for the most part, although currently I am in need of food.

[It matters little that his strategy involves avoiding most people too. After all, it's working rather well so far, barring a few instances.]

[heal_theworld]

The nutcrackers? Oh, you can't really avoid them. They pop up everywhere, really.

[fistfullofmagic]

...They have no reason to when you avoid contact with others.

[heal_theworld]

[Martel blinks.] ...You just don't generally like people, do you?

[fistfullofmagic]

...It is difficult to trust when you have seen little but the depths of the darkness in others' hearts.

[wilder]

[Zelos is walking by, minding his own business, when he notices green out of the corner of his eye]

[Oh hell no. Of all the girls to kiss, he reaaaaly doesn't want to kiss grandma. So he immediately tries to back away before she notices him....]

[And walks straight into some decorations, getting tangled up in them]

- Gah!

[heal_theworld]

[She turns at the noise and sees him tangled up in all the decorations. And then she laughs.]

Zelos, what are you doing?

[wilder]

Oh- hey Martel!

Just...got tangled in decoration! [He makes an ugh noise as he tries to get some tinsel out of his hair]

[heal_theworld]

[She sighs and walks over, helping him get the tinsel untangled from his hair.] You should probably watch where you're going.

[wilder]

[oh good help!] Heh heh, yeah I'll try harder to do that.

[And with the help, he breaks free of the tinsel!] Thanks.

[heal_theworld]

You're welcome. [She takes the tinsel and hands it back where it was.]

So what have you been doing lately?

[wilder]

[Um....all things you shouldn't tell your grandmother is what]

Heh heh, not too much really.

What about you?

[heal_theworld]

Nothing much either. Just walking around, looking at the decorations. It seems like the year has just flown by.

dictated;

[hedonic]

Lovely decorations, aren't they?

dictated;

[heal_theworld]

[That voice... It's the woman who tried to kill Once-Ler on the expedition. Martel thinks about ignoring her, but she knows for a fact that you do not want to get this women angry. And well, that's rude, when she answered a question.]

Ah, yes. There isn't really anything like this where I come from.

dictated;

[hedonic]

I'm sure you must have some festivals.

dictated;

[heal_theworld]

If we do, it's nothing this large or festive.

dictated;

[hedonic]

I have yet to see anything large about it, other than the decorations and humorous attempt at getting everyone to couple. Quite a lewd holiday, isn't it?

dictated;

[heal_theworld]

...I actually think that's more of the castle's doing than the actual holiday.

dictated;

[hedonic]

Are you sure? In that case, I don't see anything exciting about this holiday, other than the fact there are tacky decorations everywhere.

dictated;

[heal_theworld]

Not entirely, but... [She pauses.] Do things like that mean that much to you?