Summer Festival

[thalassino]

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We're having a special event this time on the Island. Please come when you have the time.
- Station Master

◣ Summer Fair ◢

If anyone actually wanders up there, they will find the whole village decorated with strings of light, fish shaped lanterns, streamers, and kelp. Just past the North edge of the Village was a fair.


Events


✗Baking Contest on Tuesday
✗Pie eating Contest on Wednesday
✗Three-legged Race on Thursday
✗Karaoke Contest on Thursday
✗Chocobo Race on Friday
✗Host Club Date Auction on Friday
✗Concert by Marceline on Friday
✗Lanterns on Saturday

There was a large stage in the center of the fair, rides, a fortune teller, contests, games, a petting zoo, a fish exhibit, stalls, booths and everything else you can find at a fair.

Comments

[unwrittenformula]

Okay. I think I'm alright, though. But.. thank you.

[It is weird, yes, but weird in a good way.]

[ourlegends]

Okay. You're welcome.

[ And now she's going to awkwardly hold his hand while waiting in line for the ferris wheel. Uhhh ... now that that's happened, what do? ]

[unwrittenformula]

[Well N is going to stare at the Ferris Wheel, all mesmerized by the contraption turning.]

[ourlegends]

[ The line moved forward, and to get his attention, she gently squeezed his hand. ]

N. We've got to move again.

[unwrittenformula]

Oh. Right, yes. Sorry...

[MOVING NOW]

[ourlegends]

[ They're getting closer in liiiiine. They're holding hands and the silence is kind of awkward. She feels like she needs to say something, but ... what?

Turns out she didn't have to think too hard. Her mouth went way ahead of her brain on this one. ]

I remember the last time we were on a Ferris Wheel together ...

[ .... was this a good thing to talk about? Back then, they were technically enemies. ]

[unwrittenformula]

... I do, too.

[That had been a difficult time for both of them, but N never regretted the decision to tell Hilda the truth that day.]

I think this will be better than that day.

[ourlegends]

[ She smiles up at him gently and nods. ]

I think so, too. No big reveals this time, hm?

[unwrittenformula]

No, none that I can think of. Unless you have one?

[Hey they can finally get on]

[ourlegends]

[ YAY on the Ferris wheel car ~ ]

No, I don't have one. Looks like our ride will be completely free of big reveals.

[unwrittenformula]

Good. It should be enjoyable then.

[N lets go of her hand to get in, but holds it back out again to help her in.]

[ourlegends]

[ She's surprised at the feeling of disappointment that's there as he lets go of her hand. There's a flutter in her heart as he holds it back out to help her in, though.

... She's not sure what that is. Hilda's going to chalk it up to being happy that he trusts her as much as he seems to.

She takes his hand and steps inside of the car, taking a seat on the side of the car opposite of him and looking out the window. It was a bit awkward to keep holding his hand at this point, so she let it go ... albeit reluctantly. ]

It should be. I wonder how much of Vatheon we'll be able to see from way up high?

[unwrittenformula]

Probably all of it. It's not a large city at all.

[For N, he's more surprised that he's able to focus on the conversation more than the movement of the Ferris wheel. But every time he's been with Hilda on one, that's been the case.

She certainly brings out a different side of him...]

[ourlegends]

We'll know where we're going from now on, then. Maybe.

[ She slides a little closer to the window and stares out of it as their car starts to rise into the air. ]

[unwrittenformula]

[N nods, and moves closer to the window as well.

Of course this being the festival, the Ferris Wheel is on the island as opposed to down below, but once it raises high enough, quite a bit of the island and the festivities below can be seen, and beyond that under the water, the bubble barrier and the city within.]

Wow...

[ourlegends]

[ It's ... breathtaking, really. Hilda let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding, eyes wide as she stared down at the place they now had to call their home. ]

It looks amazing down there ....

[ The words came out on that breath she let out, which gave her voice a much softer tone than it normally would have been. ]

[unwrittenformula]

It really does...

[N's voice was the same hushed tone, and without even really thinking about it, his hand reached out, fingers wrapping around hers again gently.]

[ourlegends]

[ She can't seem to take her eyes off of the sight below her, so when N's hand reaches to take hers again, she subconsciously responds by curling her own fingers around his in return. It seemed natural ... almost as if their hands were supposed to connect that way all along.

Hilda wasn't thinking about that, though. All she could do was look down at Vatheon from where they were on the ferris wheel and think of how beautiful it all was. ]

[unwrittenformula]

[N is the same, staring down at it in quiet awe. He had been on the Ferris Wheel in Nimbasa City hundreds of times, and while he never tired of it, this entirely new view was just breathtaking.

The wheel paused with their car at the top, letting them look down at it all in relative stillness rather than movement.]

[ourlegends]

[ Hilda would likely look back on this later and feel that it was cliche, but in that moment, it felt as though time had stopped. She and N were in that car, holding hands, looking down at the world they now found themselves in.

Hilda wasn't sure why, but ... something about seeing this world all at once like this only made the fact that she may never return to her own world hit home. Her vision began to blur only moments later, and it brought the realization to her that she had started crying. She was silent about it, tears streaming down her cheeks as she continued to stare out the window.

She didn't know why it had hit her so hard at that point. She had been traveling and away from her home for the past year. She thought she had shaken being homesick ... maybe it was the realization that for the first time in that year, she was now in a place where she couldn't eventually just fly home if she wanted to go.

This could have definitely hit her at a better time, though ... she didn't want to cry in front of N. ]

[unwrittenformula]

[N didn't notice her tears at first, mostly because she was being quiet about it. She didn't openly sob, but he did turn to look at her eventually, to try and say something, but her tears made him stop.]

... Hilda?

[ourlegends]

[ She heard him, and didn't want to look at him while she was still such a mess. Hilda worked at wiping her tears away with her free arm. ]

I-I'm okay. Really.

[unwrittenformula]

[He didn't have anything that he could wipe her tears away with, so he opted to pull his hand away, only to tug his white shirt off and use the sleeve of it to dab at her eyes after pulling her a little closer.]

Are you homesick?

[ourlegends]

[ She can only stare at him as he takes his shirt off and starts to dry her tears with it. It's ... a really sweet gesture. A really, really sweet one. If Hilda could recognize what she was feeling about this at the moment, she'd realize her heart may have just melted a little bit.

She's quiet for several moments, but then, she slumps a bit and nods. ]

I used to be able to just fly home whenever I felt like I wanted to go home ...

[unwrittenformula]

I know... and I'm sorry I can't do anything about that. All we can do is make this place our home for now.

[He knew that wouldn't be much comfort for her, but there was little else he could offer her.]