Nylat shrugged. She didn't very much care for the idea of having it massaged. She'd tried once already. It didn't work well. At Maya's stammering, she barked a laugh, looking at the girl with one eye. "I mean, how did it come about? I believe I was away at the moment, as much as I pushed it. I'm rather disappointed at that. I would have loved to have been there." She grinned at the emphasis on the word, and looked at Maya, all teeth, her eyes closed in her grin. "No worries. I'm a good listener. Anyways, I have nothing to do with my time."

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Kanec beat his wings slowly as he tilted them down into a gentle dive, laughing a bit at Disera. "I'd warn you before fallin' to my death. Anyways. Hunt, or go the easy route and go to the food van? It's your choice, I'll go with either. I'm not too picky today. I'm only picky in what I hunt, if I hunt. Not too much of a difference between hunting and going the easy route."

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Dravius looked even more concerned at Kioko's "I've had worse" statement, gently rubbing the corner of his good eye with the first two fingers of his hand. "Bad?" He asked, tilting his head to the side. "No, I'm alright. I tend to be constantly ill, it's nothing you need to feel bad about." He then cast a suspicious eye at the pyro, absently rolling his sleeves up over his elbows. "And how've you had worse? I thought you lived with your parents before coming here. At least, that's what I as.sumed." He shrugged, pulling his sagging sleeves down and then rolling them up properly, resting a few inches above his elbows, and spun a thin silver chain that was loosely around his pale wrist, looking fit to slip off any second. "Did you live on your own? To be honest, you didn't seem tough enough to be running around all on your lonesome." He pushed his hair away from his face with a hand, the thin bracelet sliding down to rest the the middle of his forearm. "Where's Maya." Dravius looked around a bit, then focused back at Kioko. "Me and her were planning to go to a river a bit later, would you like to come? We were going to pack a lunch and everything. I don't know how to swim and May can't with her wings, but maybe you can?" He tilted his head and smiled crookedly.

"Did anyone tell you that Maya used to live in this town? I went to meet her mother earlier today. She seemed rather unruffled, and nice." The Co-Master blinked slowly, with slightly hooded eyes. He seemed a bit drowsy, but the tall male just shook his head and yawned briefly, absentmindedly spinning the thin chain. "Shall we go look for the butterfly in question?" He asked, his voice slightly raspy, as if his throat was very dry. "I think I saw her over towards Ny's van." He gestured in the general direction, smiling slightly once again.

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Kioko shuffled her feet at Dravius' reply, throwing a small, nervous smile at the co master.  "Still, you should at least take something for the cough.  Maybe not coughing would make you feel a little better."  She watched the silver chain as spun around, not really wanting to discuss the topic of her parents.  "I did live with them, usually.  They weren't bad.  I just... Did things that would make them mad sometimes.  It's not like either of them meant to hurt me, you know.  Whatever happened, they always apologized later."

The pyro wrinkled her nose at Dravius' statement of her "toughness", but kept talking.  "No, I was only on the streets for a few months.  I- I thought they would be coming back to find me, so I wasn't really scared when they left me behind.  But they never did, and then time went by, and I met you guys and the circus..."  She shrugged.  "But no, I wasn't alone for long."  Kioko poked him in the shoulder.  "And I'm plenty tough, you know," she said jokingly, sticking her tongue out at the co-master.

The white haired girl nearly giggled at the oblivious nature of the dark haired man, inviting her on what sounded like a date between himself and Maya.  "Um, no thank you.  I can't really swim myself, either, and I'd probably just get in the way."

"I don't think anybody told me," she replied.  "But that's pretty neat, that you got to meet her mom."  Kioko followed Dravius' gesture with her eyes, shrugging once again.  "Alright.  But you really need to take something for your throat.  It sounds like you're getting worse."

Dravius' lips curled up unevenly at Kioko's face, then looked confused at the fact the the pyro seemed to be holding in a laugh. "Alright then. He shrugged and continued fiddling with the chain around his wrist, then suddenly dropped his hands to his sides. The chain hung on by the first knucle of his thumb, slipping down the other side of his hand. Rubbing the back of his neck with the same hand, he shook his head again and said, "You should stop worrying about me. I'm fine." He grinned crookedly, pushing his hair back from his forehead, bits of black sticking up at random, making him looked a tidge ruffled. "I just need some water or something." He shrugged and tapped two fingers on the place where his jawbone met his ear, stifling a cough. Kioko did seem rather worried about him, and it made him grin a bit. Dravius turned and headed off towards Nylat's van, trying in vain to stifle his grin.

He got there with absolutely no trouble and poked his head over the side of the van, a bit surprised to see Maya covering her head with her arms, and raising one eyebrow at her. "Are you alright, love?" He touched her shoulder, then turned back to Kioko, saying, "I shall give you a boost?" Without waiting for an answer, Dravius lightly put his hands on Kioko's waist and boosted her up so she could sit on the edge of the van's roof. The Co-Master was tall enough to see quite well over the roof, so he was quite comfortable. "How 're you guys?" He asked, rubbing one of his eyes with a few fingers.

Dravius looked slightly amused at Maya's embarassment, then rubbed one eye with his hand. He batted at Kioko's prodding foot with a small smirk and patted the top of it with a few fingers. "Well, I was busy, and then it looked a bit too clean, no offense, I'm just not used to it. So, it looks a little more lived in now, so I checked on Kioko, and now I was coming to check on you. I feel like I interuppted something, by the way." He added that last sentence as an afterthought, then looked down at Maya with a "Humh?"

"Oh, sure. Hold on a second." Dravius bent over a bit and unwrapped the gauze around Maya's wrist, for once seeming completely focused on what he was doing, gently turning her wrist from side to side to see if it had sustained any more damage. "Huhm." He said quietly, folding the old bandage and stuffing it into his pocket, holding the splints in one hand, and then tucking them in his top pocket. "I'll just use white this time, if that's alright with you..." He said quietly, swiftly re-wrapping Maya's wrist and then patting it teasingly. "Stop pickin' at it, and it won't get loose as easily, love." He grinned and straightened up, joking, "I swear, you're even worse than I am sometimes. Also. Hold on." He clambered up on Ny's roof and wrapped his arms around Kioko briefly, then looked at her seriously.

"It doesn't matter if they apologized. Or if you made them "mad." It wasn't your fault. If the hurt you, you should've left earlier. It's always their fault." Dravius then hopped down and shot a flat look at Kioko. "And we're all happy to have you here." He nodded and leaned against the side of the van, looking at Maya rather seriously, at least for him.

"What do you mean, "looked too clean"?... That was the general point," Maya pouted in response to Dravius, crossing her arms over her chest. "Atleast it wasn't all... Broken and stuff, and It would have looked lived in after a while, you know. You better not have completely ruined it." Poking the Co-Master in the arm, the butterfly continued to pout. "Or I'll never do anything for you ever again. Ever," She said with a mock frown, eventually dropping her arm once she'd had enough of prodding him.

"You didn't interrupt anything either... Nothing important, anyway." Maya coughed, busying herself with covering her mouth in an attempt to hide another blush. Looking up at Kioko, the butterfly winged blonde smiled in return, shaking her head a little as Dravius finally got around to dealing with her wrist. "I'm fine. Dandy, even." She responded, sighing through her nose, and turning to watch the Co-Master rather intently, only pauasing to shake her head again. "Why would it matter?... It's not like I chose the orange stuff," She laughed. "And I don't pick at it... It just... Came loose. All right?" Maya, at this point, went back to pouting at him. What she'd said probably wasn't entirely true. But she hadn't messed around with the gauze for a while, so it was part true. Which was good enough for her.

At Dravius' "you're worse than me" comment, Maya snorted loudly and elbowed him, saying in a teasing tone, "That'll never happen," She smiled at him, the ex
pression slightly clouded by confusion as the Co-Master rather suddenly lifted himself on to Nylat's van, proceeding to hug the pyro sat up there. The butterfly honestly had no idea what that was for, and merely listened to Dravius' words, tilting her head a little in total loss. She could come up with some ideas... It just seemed a little delayed if it was only just now the Co-Master was talking about it now.

Folding her arms behind her back, she watched the tall, dark haired male slip from the van, her gaze flickering between him and Kioko. It was the Co-Master's serious stare that caused Maya to stop looking between the two, and she frowned heavily at him. "What?" She asked, looking just a little concerned and wondering just what it was she'd done this time.

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Dravius gave a mock huff at Maya's prodding and batted a hand at the woman's prodding hands, making a "pssh" noise at her too clean comment. "In my defense, it was unnerving. Looked unlived in." He shrugged and managed to look amused and miffed at the same time at Maya's teasing. "You're so meeeeaaan to me!" He snorted, then shok his head back and forth.

"Hum?" Dravius blinked once or twice at Maya's concerned face, then rubbed one of his eyes. "Sorry, just a bit...angry." He shifted from foot to foot and exhaled heavily through his nose. "Ahh. Hard to put this delicately...." He crossed his arms and ran a few fingers along his jawline. "I was checking Kioko's shoulder out, and she remarked she'd had worse." Dravius was pacing slightly, taking a few steps forewards, revolving, and moving back again. "So, I was understandably confused, as I supposed she lived with her parents."

The Co-Master seemed to be becoming more agitated, rubbing a spot above his eyebrow almost frantically. "So she said she had, but they had...hurt her. Then she made some excuses for them, which ticked me off, and here we are." Dravius was huffing slightly, and came to a stop facing Maya. "I hate it when people make excuses." He muttered, eyebrows furrowed. The young man pulled his chain off of his thin wrist and wrapped it around a few fingers, looking distressed. "Okay. Have to calm down." Dravius took a deep breath and stuck his hands in his pockets, exhaling heavily. "Alright. Better." He ran his hands through his hair once and leaned against Nylat's van.