"Why, I think red looks quite good on you, Tharja." Cherche complimented Tharja easily, with her usual smile on her face. Her smile rarely betrayed her true feelings, but her kind words seemed genuine despite the dark mage's thorny nature. 

"Oh, Minerva? She's enjoying it here very much, actually." she told her, before becoming thoughtful again. "Hmm... perhaps it was amiss of me to tell you how to enjoy yourself here, but I really do think it might be best not to think about it too hard and do whatever strikes you at the moment. There's not many opportunities like this for us anymore, after all."

Cherche smiled again. "Minerva doesn't think too hard about such things in any case, and since she seems so content I think we can all learn from her example."

Dragon Scale Armor? || Open RP

"My, that does sound complicated." Cherche smiled lightly when Gaius became so enthusiastic over his doughnut dreams. "Perhaps I should bake some doughnuts before we leave the Outrealms to cure your nightmares?" 

She looked up to Minerva, who still seemed to be looking at Gaius for some reason. "Did you hear that, Minerva? He's not sick or anything, so you don't have to keep watching him." Cherche giggled a bit. "Or maybe she smells the ice cream on you still?"

Just as Cherche finished the sentence, Minerva stuck her long scaly neck out and gave Gaius a rather large lick with her tongue, making pleased clicking noises afterwards. "Why, Minerva! How silly of you, thinking that Gaius is an ice cream cone just because he smells like one." 

Fun In The Sun || [Gaius+Cherche]

Immediately shooting up, Gaius sat up and held his palms out, his eyes widening. "No no no, you don’t understand! Yes, it was entirely about sweets- doughnuts really! Doughnuts everywhere! Glazed, chocolate coated, pink frosted with sprinkles, jelly filled gooey goodness, even just plain doughnut! It was a doughnut paradise, lady! Beautiful and hella delicious. But…" He immediately have a wince as he continued to think about it. Lowering his head down, he covered his face as he took in a deep breath.

”..But I only had one bag! The bag was able to fit several dozens of those sweet babies in, but I couldn’t fit them all in!” he cried out, lifting his head back up with a pained look. "I didn’t have another bag, so I couldn’t carry them all with me! It was devastating! Then when I went to grab one of them, I heard a growl. I thought it had a mind of its own and got mad at me!" Rubbing his head, he let out a sigh. It was both a blessing and curse that it was but a dream. 

"Worried?" Lifting his body up to stand, Gaius gave Minerva a glance. Wait, that thing spoke to her? Geez, she can speak Wyvern? Add a talent point to her name in his book. "Well, I appreciate the concern, but go ahead and tell your friend there i’ll be okay," he told her. Waving his hand in front of him, he lightly shook his head and smiled. "No worries. I didn’t want to sleep for long, so I should probably be thanking her for that little wake me up."

"Hee hee, dreaming about sweets I see. That doesn't sound like a nightmare to me," Cherche brushed a strand of long pink hair behind her ear before looking up at her wyvern mount.

"Oh, Minerva? She was just worried about you," she told Gaius. "She says it's not good for your health to fall asleep after eating so much ice cream. But you did look like you were enjoying yourself, so I'm sorry if she disturbed you."

Fun In The Sun || [Gaius+Cherche]

The soft footsteps that came towards him went completely unnoticed by the thief. Several moments had passed since he fell into his candy paradise, so his mind and thoughts were completely elsewhere. Damn, dozens and dozens of all of these glazed doughnuts around him and not enough room in his bag to fit them all in. This wasn’t a dream, this was a nightmare… As he went to pick one of the doughnuts up, his hand grabbed the soft bread and…

'Huh?' Did that doughnut just… growl at him? What in the… doughnuts don’t growl at others. That couldn’t have just happened. WAS THIS DOUGHNUT ALIVE? Suddenly hearing soft voices some distance away, Gaius stirred in his sleep. Slowly blinking as his eyes opened, he looked up and saw a familiar figure standing near him. Moving his gaze over, he suddenly noticed another figure. A large and frightening figure… 

"Oh thank gods that doughnut wasn’t the one growling at me. I thought this nightmare was getting worse," he let out, shaking his head as he lifted his body up with his arms and leaned against them. That Wyvern of hers must have been the one to growl. "Is your buddy okay there? Nasty growl there."

Cherche was about to find a shady spot to rest with Minerva when she spotted Gaius laying on the beach. 

"Gaius...? Are you sunbathing in a place like this?" She stopped and wandered over to check on him, peering at the candy thief's face before realizing he was fast asleep. She didn't want to disturb him, but then Minerva followed after her and let out a strange growling noise. 

"Whatever is the matter with you, Minerva? He's only taking a nap." Cherche lightly scolded the wyvern, though there was no way Gaius could actually still be asleep after that racket.... right?

Fun In The Sun || [OPEN]

"Man, they need to make these sweet babies in ‘extra extra large’ sizes. Large just ain’t large enough." 

Muttering to himself as he walked away from the small food stand, Gaius stared at the rather tall seven inch towering vanilla ice cream cone he held in his hand. The sweet, frozen desert was already starting to drip at the sides of the cone from the cool heat of the air. Raising the treat up, he licked the drips away before beginning to lick the actual ice cream area instead, humming.

"Though this may be smaller than i’d like, the vanilla taste is absolutely refreshing! If only they had sprinkles and little cookie bits to add on to this. Then it’d be even more glorious.”

Once Gaius found a spot away from where most everyone else were busy building sand castles and playing about in the ocean, he sat down on the warm sand. Continuing to lick away his treat, the thief watched the other Shepherds busy themselves with other activities.

Gaius was glad they were able to take a day off to just lounge about and enjoy themselves without having any worry. War was a tough thing to swallow, and sometimes they all needed a moment to put all those troubles away and just relax for once. Some, more than others… But this was nice. The beach was a good place to spend this day. Man, when was the last time he came to a beach to actually relax… Been too long.

Feeling something wet fall on his shorts, Gaius looked down to see his ice cream had dripped onto the swim trunks he was wearing. Mumbling out a curse, he ran his finger under the fallen ice cream and picked what he could up before sucking it off in his mouth. Looking back down, he gave his shorts a quick glance around, making sure there was nothing else that could have fallen on them. Man, these shorts… He swore those Anna babes just wanted to see him wear something as silly as this. Plus, his black trunks stitched with candy decorations was… a bit too tight for his liking. But from what he saw from the mirror, he did look pretty good in them.

Once he was certain his shorts were clean, the thief slowly finished the rest of his ice cream, along with the cone, then laid back on the sandy ground, a hum escaping his throat at the feel of the warm sand on his bare back. Putting his hands behind his head, he closed his eyes, enjoying the sunshine. Within a few minutes of resting, he promptly fell asleep.

"Why is that? You shouldn't have to try to have fun, just relax," Cherche smiled good-naturedly when Tharja grumbled. She reached up to pet Minerva's snout gently, before presenting Tharja with the small crab in her other hand.

"Take this fellow, for example. He was hiding under a seashell when I found him. You can see all sorts of things by accident in a place like this, so maybe it would do well to just enjoy the scenery."

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Dragon Scale Armor? || Open RP

Cherche strode across the beach serenely, the peaceful expression on her face contrasting with the fact that a gigantic wyvern was following right behind her. She was wearing a quite stunning swimsuit made of wyvern scales, complete with a tiny set of wings decorating the bow on the back of her neck. 

She stooped down when she saw a seashell, but instead of picking up the shell she flipped it over and scooped up a tiny crustacean with horrible spiny legs and placed it in the palm of her hand. 

"How adorable!" she cooed, though she turned her head when Minerva let out a screech. The wyvern had apparently spotted one of Cherche's friends also walking up the beach.

"Oh, hello! have you come to play with Minerva?"