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A boy with a Hello Kitty Mask had simply passed through this part of the festival to simply make a wish. After some very heavy thoughts, he thought again and again, and the finnally decided on his wish and released his boat. After watching it float away, he made his way into the crowd to find something fun to do, and of course to hopefully find someone he has been continously hoping to see.

Ashe Raiku
"Would you like your picture taken?

Ashe looked around as she watched as a few more of the little boats floated of down the stream. "So what would you like to do... Ashe started talking as Karu explained some of the things that had been around the area. On her own she had no idea what she would be doing it would take some thinking. Ashe quickly fumbled though her dress trying to find where her phone was as it buzzed a few times as she was looking for it. Flipping the phone open she quickly read the message as the small sound of her camera starting up could be heard for a short few seconds. "Sorry I gotta go run off, a friend needs assistance and wants some pictures taken!" Ashe called back as she quickly readied herself, slipping her glasses on. "I'll catch up later... She pocketed her phone as she did a once over making sure she had what she needed. "Alright... I GO! She yelled out as she quickly dashed through the people to meet with the one that had messaged her.

Kanade Tachibana, Shy Junior

The quiet girl had fled a considerable distance, to place herself from the brown haired Senior, and the large crowd of people. She positioned herself away from where the others were, before curling up into a ball and sobbing.
"Why..." she spoke quietly to herself, as she sat, rubbing her eyes. "Why are people so...."

She sobbed alone for a few minutes, slowly working her way through her phobia of people, and of closeness from someone she didn't know. She...she felt horrible about how she darted off like that, without explanation. She wanted to hang out with someone.....but she just always had this feeling....like she was going to be betrayed again. That she was going to get knifed in the back by someone the very moment she let her guard down....
It was only in a time of fighting....of when she knew not to expect sympathy, or ill inetions from her foes....That she could act. And even then, it was just as a bland, emotionless machine, bent on defeating her foes.
She sobbed a bit more, feeling so socially awkard at an event like this, before slowly getting a hold of herself, her eyes red. She.....she had to keep calm. She had to calm down. She had to.....
She just needed balance. She needed something to help her keep her balance. Something, or someone. Just....one person..

Rednal

"So this is where you've been hiding." a voice said gently. Rednal smiled down at the girl a moment later as he sat down and held out an unopened Ramune soda. You do realize that she's obviously in an emotionally vulnerable state, right? Try to not make things any worse than they already are. Rednal considered this advice for a moment. He had a profound tendency to make every situation worse whenever he tried to make it better. By this point, he was suspecting it was more of a curse than anything else. Terrible social skills couldn't possible explain it all. He sighed a bit, then both hands darted out as he simply picked the girl up, carrying her like a princess. "I hate seeing girls cry. Especially ones I care about." he said in a particularly straightforward way. "So I refuse to let you get away until you start having fun." His heart was in the right place... probably...? "At the very least, I saw a stall with mapo tofu." That had to work, right?

Karissa made her way from the Shooting Gallery Booth looking at doing something a bit less of the norm for her. She watched as two people left the area while she picked up one of the small boats. As the blonde was starting to grab one of the brushes to write her wish an out of place noise caught her attention, halting her wish making progress.

Crying? Here, from who... She kept the little boat as she started looking around of the source of the noises, it just seemed to out of place with the atmosphere of the festival, even she was rather happy, and she was normally quite indifferent towards everything that people normally found enjoyable. She looked a bit further from the main of the stream before discovering a semi-familiar face and some unfamiliar face attempting to carry the girl off, that seemed to end quickly as the soon as it started as the girl used some sort of power to break free from him. Just from their interaction, or his addressing her Karissa picked up they at least seemed to partially know each other. "Perhaps you should let her calm down before you go dragging her about." Karissa spoke up not wanting to just watch the happening without doing anything. If Kanade had a half way decent memory she'd remember the short conversation that they had at the shopping district restaurant.

Kanade Tachibana, Shy Junior
Kanade froze at Rednal's words, hearing him offer to take her wherever.
"If it's okay with you....I kind of want to stay here, where it's quiet." she called meekly, wiggling free of Rednal's grip, her blades slipping back into her hands. "I....I was wondering about.....Aselia, and Yuno, actually."
She didn't want to particularly be near either of them, for varying reasons, and she needed to find that one boy, to apologize. But....she just wasn't prepared mentally to put up with people at the moment.
Maybe.....maybe later, she'd be able to muster up that energy, but she couldn't deal with more than one person at a time right now. She also really wanted that fish too....Ugh, so many things at once....It hurt her head.

Rednal

Taking the cue from Kanade's wiggling (fun as it was), Rednal bent down and gently set the girl on her feet. "Oh, those two?" he asked. He pointed a thumb over his shoulder. "Well, if experience is any help at all, then I'm guessing Yuno's about twenty feet that way. I think 'Selia's with her; you didn't really look like you wanted to be crowded, so I sort of asked them to hang back for a bit." That was one thing he really wanted to try and work on, though. Shyness was an endearing trait, but he'd rather she be able to have fun with the whole group, or at least a smaller one. Smiles were definitely the best, after all... and he was quite determined to see to it that Kanade had some. He gently put one arm around the girl's shoulders, then stroked a bit of hair back behind her ear. Noisy and crowded though the festival was, he'd quite happily shield Kanade from it for as long as she wanted.