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After such an eventful, yet not nearly eventful enough evening, Shahrazad had spent her night alone with but some liquor and sweet treats to keep her company. Not a terrible way to end the evening, even if she could not convince her love (Kelebek) to bed with her. In fact, it was a downright pleasant way to fall asleep in the soft folds of her room's blankets.

Given that it had been nearly two days since she'd left her children to themselves, the feline decided to pay their room a visit; the scene of her arrival had shown exactly what she'd expected of them given their aptitude to quarrel among each other and make a mess of any situation and the extended period they'd have (mostly) only their company to partake in.



Saira's evening could have gone better if she'd not had to argue with her hero for so long. Their meeting and departure was so bittersweet, in fact, that she'd been made to drink away her lonely sorrows at the bar until the dance was all but over. She'd been the second one to return to the shared room, her roommate - that stupid pigeon - all but forgotten until she was once again within her line of site.

And on her bed.

Sleeping.

Needless to day, the ensuing argument and quarreling had been loud enough to call forth the cherubs, who (again) warned them of making too much noise and disturbing the other guests. Saira had taken the bed with Hatil (rightfully) sent back to her place on the couch, and the night before seemed but a dream due to the throbbing in her head the following morning. She had not been a pretty face for her mother to look at, and was actually made to clean herself proper before they made landing at the island.



Relative to the other two, Hatil's (romantic) endeavors had been far more successful. After spending some time making (horrid) music with Valko as a (terribly) loud duet, she'd left him with a kiss and a promise to meet up sometime later on the trip. Excluding the disturbance by her old crow of a sister, it had been a rather wonderful evening, so she'd awoken in far better spirits than her family, ready to take on the day and find her new friend to talk with again. Her viola was hidden underneath the couch, carefully tucked away so the cleaning crew wouldn't notice it (or at least not bother to retrieve it).



Leading the other two, Saira to her side and Hatil just behind them, Shahrazad made her way down the side of the boat and made an effort to avoid the growing group of those accepting leis from the goddess. There were perfectly good cherubs being left her on the side alone, after all. Once the three of them were sufficiently flowery, the demon made her way to the freshwater pool and found a chair to lounge about under the sun.



Saira had intended on following her mother and sitting beside her at the pool, but was promptly shooed away to leave her be. Huffing, the bird instead moved inside of the resort building and, not particularly having a stomach for food at the moment, instead went to look around the activity center.



Not bothering her mother, Hatil moved to the opposite side of the pool and stuck her claws in, smiling at the cool sensation, before looking around and staring to see if/when her friend would walk off the ship. Hopefully her bright green plumage was enough for him to notice her.

Oh the little bauble was not making much sense at all, "'ntzy, darling, not nasty. I don't care for the word." Though it fit a lot of things, it just wasn't a pretty enough word to use. Now Chintzy, that was a lovely word for this bizarre pae. Brazen fit, just the courage to walk around like that was more than most pae would even dare.

His comment drew a smile as she fully ignored his dirty looks and just leaned a little closer, "Oh really, you are that sure of your taste?" If he tasted how he dressed not even a naga would try him. Maybe it was some incredibly clever camouflage? Lillibeth decided she liked this one as well, just like her darling little gnome. Really, she had to see just how he was doing surely he missed her company.

Waking up that morning was similar to waking up from a hangover, only the complete opposite. Cerelia had fallen asleep completely miserable, but now she woke up feeling fantastic. It wasn't that she really felt supreme amazing, but even ordinary felt great compared to how she felt the night before. Though... Nothing could compare to the sheer joy she had felt when she first gazed upon that harpy. Thinking about that joy being gone still made her feel a little down, but nothing like the depression she had fallen into the previous evening.

Cerelia made her way down to the island, cute and quaint in its own little way, With a hotel and everything, she had to wonder if these gods had built the island just for this. As a lei was tossed over her head, Cerelia couldn't help but giggle, she just felt so much better, and she knew she would feel even greater after taking a quick dip in the ocean to rehydrate before seeing what else the island had to offer her.

Dysmas looked over the rail of the boat at the new island they were approaching. He was fairly certain it was a new island and not the one he had been stranded on with Sweetie. It had been so long though that it seemed completely possible that the island had changed so significantly.

There was some nervous flutter in his stomach, but for the most part Dysmas was starting to feel pretty good about things now. He wasn't sure how Sweetie was feeling though. In her concern for him, she masked whatever true feelings she had well. He tilted his head, looking at his companion. "Here we are." He said thoughtfully, deciding that he was actually eager to spend time with Sweetie on this different island.

Besides, if they got stuck on this island at least there was this large resort for them to stay in and Dysmas wouldn't have to build anything. He really needed the break from building, he wasn't even that great at it.

She deserved points for keeping it together. If it weren't for appearances this would probably be one of the funniest events all trip. Reaching out, Lillibeth came just short of being able to touch him before trilling sweetly, "Oh I do like a sweet treat." He didn't seem much like a treat, however. Finally, she pulled her hand back, "Lucky for you, I prefer my meal smoking." He was not nearly hot enough to count.

It was unfair to menace him so, but he was male and amusing. Surely that was a pass.

Sweetie had almost entirely calmed down from the trip being on a boat. Okay, more like relaxed so much. It wasn't until they approached land her anxiety had begun to rear it's ugly head. What if this was the same island they'd been trapped on waiting for rescue? But there were a bunch of other pae with them this time, and a super big, and probably luxurious place to stay. At least Dysmas wouldn't have to build anything. And she wouldn't have to lift anything. That thought was a moment of relief.

"On an island we don't have to build a hut on~" she smiled, doing everything she could to throw any thoughts of their previous trips out the window. The fauny happily snuggled up to the love of her life, wanting to spend time with him. There was even a bunch of stuff to do that involved areas around water! "Maybe they've got a really nice waterfall we can hang around in?" She offered, really meaning a place for him to keep nice and hydrated and a place she could watch him swim. Oh Celestia how he looked when he was swimming.

She was happily walking next to him, down the gangplank, on the dock, and even past the little things greeting them and giving them flowered things. She grinned, wearing the lei as if it were a sign that nothing terrible was going to happen on this island. Her attention was on Dysmas, her very tall and handsome man, when out of nowhere, she was pulled away. How in Celestia's Great Mane was she pulled away from Dysmas?! And that was all she remembered.

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A while later, the fauny came to. Groaning something about her head hurting and sleeping in a seriously uncomfortable position. She opened her eyes and blinked a little. Bars? "Seriously? Seriously. I quit. Never leaving home again." She sighed, rather irritated every time she tried to do something with Dysmas outside of their home, something happened. A lot of somethings happened.

Not one to stay trapped forever, Sweetie started looking for a way to get out of whatever it was holding her in place. At least there was room for her to move around and see what was going on. She started tugging at the bars, wondering if something would give. No such luck. Sweetie tried not to loose it. This was seriously not cool. Here she was in the middle of a jungle, surrounded by Celestia only knows what, trapped inside a giant cage! At least it was better than being trapped on an island where she had no chance of shelter or getting out of the sun's harmful rays. She was so distracted with her own thoughts she hardly noticed the other pae in the cage with her.

((Late post for entrances to the island))


Zaden did NOT want to leave her room with all it's accumulated foodstuffs and drinkstuffs, not to mention last time she went on an island was a pure and utter nightmare. It was not an experience she wanted to repeat. She swore to herself if they did another treasure hunt she'd turn the other way this time and not go. Zaden wanted to just be served by those annoying little creatures that showed up every time she called for more foodstuffs, they listened to her far more then Payne did Payne just liked to grump about it. But in the end she wound up using a pillowcase to take as much of her food-stuffs with her as she left the ship and made her way onto the island and towards the building most others went to as well.


Sommer liked the idea of having a new friend who WASN'T related to her in some way. So even as the party ended the brightly colored angel stuck with Neli, she took what she wanted from that ship's room she'd used and skipped after Neli and her sister off the boat and onto the island. So far so good Sommer was avoiding Junior's eyes, so far as she knew.



Vash had totally lost sight of the girl no guy the night before, but in the end had flirted with several more pae even though he was still smitten and watching for the one pae the whole time. After the party came to an end he reluctantly left and rested up in his room. In the morning when they came to port he spruced up and disembarked the ship heading into the hotel for some R&R and perhaps a nice dip in a pool... if they have one.


Bramble was a bit of a mess when she left the party after her wrestle with the other pae. It took her quite a while to re-preen herself when she returned to her room. In the morning she avoided the other bird-paes as she left the ship wanting adventure and fun... and friends but so far there wasn't many of those on the horizon.

{{ Vash, Zaden and Bramble open for interaction }}