Nylat heaved a sigh and let her head drop roughly on the branch as Maya left.
"What are we to do with her? I'm not as young as I used to be. Following her around is getting harder and harder..."
She flicked her tail, staying where she was, and yawned.
"Why am I so tired today? I can't stop yawning."
She growled to herself before dropping a foreleg down to dangle and flicking her ears back, watching Raphael.
"You aren't gonna leave me this time, are you? I rather dislike being left. Even by you, wave faker."

((Fail again. >.<))

Dravius looked bewildered at Maya's vocal onslaught, saying finally, "No, no, I'm fine.       And-what?" He glanced up sharply at Maya's news, and followed Kioko at a slightly slower pace, striding quickly of the sand-ridden gras.s. Coming to a stop just behind Kioko's shoulder, Dravius listened to Kioko's anxious, almost sad question, and nodded, saying softly, "Why?" The one word hung breifly in the salty air, as the boy leveled his clear blue gaze at Yama. A few circus members had stopped to listen, seeing the three new members, and the familiar Co-Master, turning their heads. Near the front of the listening crowd were three little girls and a young boy, the oldest looking ten or eleven. Two girls had grey hair, the remaining's a chocolate brown, and reching to her small knees. The older boy was dark, but in skin and hair, and all four looked rather distraught.

Miranda whipped her head up from Zinc's shoulder, her green eyes wide and her lip quivering. "L-leaving?" She sniffled, and pushed herself out of Zinc's arms, running to hug one of Sh'Yama's long legs, crying into it. The other children took this as a sign to rush as one to hang onto other parts of Yama, the boy firmly gripping the woman's strong arms, and was plainly trying not to cry. The girls all sniffled and said, almost as one, "But you can't leave, Miss Yama!" The boy threw in his own, "Please don't go. You're new, but you're already like family. Everyone here is. Don't go," Before growing silent and grinding his face into the cloth of Yama's sleeve, trails of tears saoking Yama's legs and arm. The shorter children seemed determined to stop Yama, if simply by weighing her legs down. They hug from her pants, sniffling and saying things about staying discordantly.

Maya's eyes had been focused on Disera when Kioko upped and left, and the girl watched after her with a slightly concerned face. Great, not only did she now feel ill, she was worrying, again, over everyone else. Yep. She was going to lock herself away after this, with any luck, she might actually feel better... Then again, maybe not.

She sighed quietly, then looked over at Disera."Yeah. I know," She bit her lip lightly, watching Dravius as he too left the van. "I suppose we'd better go along," She murmered, frowning towards the window where food was being prepared. Ugh. It was making her feel more ill. Sneezing once, the butterfly pouted, then walked out of the food van after Dravius, and headed towards where Yama and the others were. She stood a good few steps away, more of the watching crowd than actually being a part of that group, watching the kids with slightly raised eyebrows... Looks like Spider and Kioko would not be the only ones who would miss the Blodwen sister.

Julian also stood as more of the crowd, his arms crossed and his face unreadable. He didn't really understand the need for all this commotion, even if people had grown attached to Yama. Saying that, most of the people here were pretty young, and many more were only throwing glances in Yama's direction before going about their business. But still... Peopl had left the Circus before, having found lives elsewhere... Really. All this gathering and faffing about was getting irritiating.

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"Ah," Raphael murmered, smiling slightly and picking at a number of strawberries. He had a strange obsession with strawberries. "Your really not all that old, Nylat... It's probably just because of this week... It's taken a lot out of us," He popped one of the little red fruits into his mouth, then leaned his head against the tree bark and looked up at Nylat. "And that would be because she's a flighty sort of person, it's probably down to the butterfly in her,"

He smiled in an amused sort of way, his eyes still on the hybrid. "Maybe you should go get some sleep?" He suggested, reaching over for another fruit. "You probably need it, and Selvai, I recommend trying one of these," He added, gesturing towards the strawberries. "They're delicious,"

((Cannot do much else until Zomby posts. xD))

((0.o An insane circus? How did I miss this... two days ago? Are you still accepting people and if you are can I join and get a brief summary of what happened so that I'm not completely confused?

...Wow, long sentence...))

((LOL. Hallo, Dolphins, nice to see you again. ;D

If your a new member it doesn't really matter about whats happened so far, but yes. Feel free to join. ;D Currently, most of our members are trying to prevent another member leaving. And the Circus itself is at the beach, taking a vacation from performances and whatnot. Your character can just stumble across them if you wish, or something of the sort. xD

I should warn you this RP can move quickly at times. But I'm usually willing to keep people updated. <3))

((You're the person who so nicely gave me the rules to things, right? -is very sloooooow- XD

Ooh, okay then. I'll do my best to keep up with the RP if it decides to go light speed on me. And the beach? Sweet! I'll have the chance to use a very old character idea! I'mma gonna go get that bio sorted out now.

 Wait, I has question. The rules say one ability per person, but the bio's say two as long as they link. Do I follow the rules or the bio?))

((Yep, that was me. xD

And sorry. My mistake, follow the bio. I'll go alter that rule. Though basically it IS one ability, with like... A minor ability. Sorta. xD))

(( :D

XD Okie-dokie. Now, lets see if I can find that picture... Also, if I introduce two characters (which I might because an idea bit me and it is awesome) I will need to know something. Are there any big trees around?))

((Oh, yesness!

Okay, my evil plans will work. Good to know. XD))

((Bios done~))

Name: Myrra

Age: Roughly 19/20-ish

Gender: Female

Appearance:

Old/New Member:New

Personality:

Myrra is generally a very calm and collected person. She takes her time to think things through, to do things, to feel things, and she always thinks before she speaks. As a result of this, she is polite and usually very diplomatic, and can normally be relied on to stop a fight, argument, or to sooth ruffled feelings. However, damaging nature is something she cannot tolerate, and so help the person who cuts living wood in her presence. She has a toleration for humans eating meat, but she does not condone mindless violence, killing, or burning of trees.
 

Ability: Myrra’s abilities all correlate to plants. She can bring life back to vegetation and can cause any sort of plantlife to grow or move. This can be used for many different purposes, including fighting if she so chooses, but as she’s a very peaceful person, this is unlikely to happen. She also feeds off of sunlight and water, but this is less of an ability and more of just who she is.

Crush:
None yet. Open.

Other:
Aspects of human life confuse her, despite the fact that she’s watched them for hundreds of years.  

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Name: Shys

Age: 17/18

Gender: Female

Appearance:

Old/New Member:New

Personality:

Shys is a very curious sort of person, and is willing to stick her nose in anything she hasn’t seen before. The phrase ‘curiousity killed the cat’ is apt in this case; although she tries to be careful, she does sometimes forget when she gets particularly excited. Shys is like a little kid in terms of emotional maturity as well. She tends to be on the happy side and is usually a little excited and very cheerful. However, she can be serious if the time calls for it, and she is not above turning ice-cold in a heartbeat if need be.
 

Ability: Shys’s abilties all go back to one thing: water. She can control water (turn it to ice, fog, whatever), and she has the capability to breathe underwater for infinity, if necessary. When completely immersed in water, Shys has no difficulty breathing or moving, and her land-clothes revert to their natural state.

Crush:
None yet. Open.

Other:
Her favorite sea-food is oysters.

((Dun forget Nylat's in a tree! <33 And I can't get the motivation to post. DX))

There were many trees near the beach. She wasn't entirely sure why they'd chosen to grow so close to the sea and the salt, but the presence of several lovely freshwater streams that ran directly into the ocean was likely at least part of the reason. Those streams were the reason she herself was here, actually. She'd been following the path of the streams for several months now, just for the sake of travel. Ending up at a beach hadn't been her ideal destination. Beaches tended to be tourist hotspots, and if there was one thing that Myrra disliked, it was being around humans.

All right, fine, she didn't dislike being around humans. She just hated it when people saw her. Over the years she'd had many different reactions to her rather unusual appearance, until she'd finally just stopped showing herself to people. It seemed to work well enough; when people did catch a glimpse of her she was always able to quickly vanish so that nobody would realize that what they'd seen was real.

When she'd arrived at the beach, there weren't any people around, thankfully. Unwilling to just turn back and leave, Myrra had taken up a place in a very large, very old oak tree. Its branches and leaves were very nice, and the bark wasn't as rough as some trees that she'd slept in before. She'd already been there three and a half days before anything happened; a caravan had arrived.

Of course she had been asleep at the time they had come.

When Myrra woke from her sleep, it was already sunset. She sat up slowly, stretching like a cat, her graceful tail gently curling in and out on itself to get out all the kinks it had picked up during the night. After she finished her languid stretching, Myrra scanned her tree, feeling that something was off. Different.

And there it was: a man sitting at the base of the tree, and a cat-like creature that was sprawled out on one of the lower branches. Myrra watched them from her high perch, carefully learning forward, her tail wrapping around the trunk as an anchor.

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"Sunset," Shys said thoughtfully, tilting her head back so she could look up through the clear waters of the bay and see the oranges melding into reds, complete with the glare of the reddish sun and numerous color-tinted clouds. "It's blurry."

This statement was quite true. Living under the water as she did, Shys rarely saw anything above water that wasn't blurry. Water had a bad habit of blurring everything for her. It was particularly annoying at night, when the pinpricks of light that were stars were swallowed up by the meters of water. She kicked her feet a couple of times, pushing her body back a few feet.

"I'm going up," she decided.

Moments later, Shys shot up from the seafloor, large bubbles trailing slowly behind her. She popped up near the shore of the beach and craned her head back to look up at the sky. Her blue hair pooled out behind her, the bubbles and natural crystalline-like figures, more alike to very flexible ice than anything, joining it. "Beautiful!"

((There you go. Have a blast.))

[[just a warning, everyone is getting brutally murdered. sorry about that. =(]]

"Maya?" Like it was any of her business. Yama turned around, an ex
pression of utter disgust on her face, slightly softened by Kioko's worry. "Yes, it's true." She snarled, eyes jumping from one pair of eyes to another of the growing crowd.  "And what reason have you to be upset about that? Do I truly need to give you a reason? You have no idea who I am, or what I have done, and yet you want to be sad when I decide to leave? I hate most of you. I'd want nothing more than to see you writhing on the ground with your insides spilled all over the gra.ss. Somehow you have concocted a different image of me, though I have done nothing to hide my true nature." She pursed her lips. Well, she hadn't killed anyone. But stabbing Zinc on a whim and implying she wanted to eat people should have been a big clue. Perhaps it was not.

The children really set her off. She stiffened, lips parting in a snarl. "Family? How dare you!" She growled, "You would welcome a stranger into your family? Do not trust people so blindly!" She pulled her arm roughly out of the grip of the one boy, and she stared down at him. "I could rip your head from your shoulders, and not think anything of it. Is that family? Or are you really foolish enough to accept that? How does just being in this stupid place make me family? You are all delusional fools." Sh'Yama looked up, giving the older members a pointed look. "You will get them off of me, or I will remove them myself."

Yama sighed threw her nose, trying to remain in control. "Regardless of my violent nature, there is nothing about this place that makes me happy. Except perhaps seeing it burned to the ground. I did come here for family, and I found what I was looking for. All of you are not what I was looking for."

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"You don't need to throw a fit to get them to think badly of you," Zinc thought most of them should already think badly of her, "It probably won't change their minds, and besides, you'd just regret it later." He said, but stepped forward anyway to try and pull off one of the little ones.

"Stop trying to make them think it is a ruse, Dream Walker. You'll only get them hurt. I'd enjoy it. You can't try and make that not true. Some things just are. And it's about time they learned that." At least if she made herself a threat, the more sensible members would have her run out, if it came to that. Yama didn't want to hurt anyone. But the other one had a stronger hold on things. And that one was always hungry.

"Best think carefully, Zinc. Who here do you think could stop me after I get started?"

((Which still cracks me up since she hasn't even made a real appearance yet... XD

Oh, that reminds me (somehow -- don't ask me, I don't control my brain). Weren't you considering some sort of crush-y thing on one of my characters, Kuro?))