[open] Think left and think right and think low and think high.

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Characters: Sougyo no Kotowari and company
Content: Elemental spirits enjoying a taste of humanity
Setting: All over the Amestris
Time: Long Night
Warnings: Mischievous small children.

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[barrelobuling]

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

One of the most fun things about Long Night was that you had to be loud to scare the ghosts and monsters away, and so you got to make as much noise as you wanted! Luckily, Bu-ling still had her vuvuzela from the Hanami marketplace for just such an occasion. She was sitting on top of a barrel on the deck, playing it in the general direction of the town, while An-nin played the drums on the side of the barrel.

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[barrelobuling]

An-nin stopped drumming the barrel and chattered up at Bu-ling in monkey language. She put down the vuvuzela and looked around, spotting them.

"Other kids nano da!"

Girl and monkey bounded over to the twins and began to buzz around them. "Who're you? Where'd you come from? Are those your Long Night costumes? Bu-ling doesn't have hers yet. Bu-ling was just gonna use that pirate costume from the show again. What're your names?"

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[the19thchief]

Huang Rong was not in a good mood after venturing out into Antrim. Why did those...things call her by that name? No one besides her family and her mentor called her that. The more she thought about it, the more unsettled it made her. Some Long Night this was turning out to be.

With a huff that was partly angry, but mostly irritated (she wasn't sure if it was at herself or at the world in general). She stood up, grabbed her Dog Beating Staff the pushed the door of her room open to step into the hall. A walk, might help clear her mind.

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[the19thchief]

She had not expected the blur of blue that passed when she finally entered the hall, and it was only years of martial arts training that kept her standing after one of them zoomed by far too close.

"Hey! Watch where you're going!"

She had been a patient person to begin with, and Antrim had certainly done nothing to improve this. So it was natural that her voice took on a short tone.

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[strange_wonders]

Howl was avoiding setting foot off the ship. Every bone in his body was practically screaming that the town was bad news, and bad news was the last thing he wanted to contend with during Long Night. The season was bad enough as it was.

So he was roaming around instead, snooping about while there were less people around than usual to wonder just what he was up to. At some point, he'd become aware of something that wasn't quite right--the odd feeling of familiar magic and something pretending to be what it wasn't. So he'd started to follow it, just to see what he could find. Spotting the two children coming down the hall, he realized that he'd A) found what he was looking for and that B) they had Sophie Hatter written all over them. He'd have to find out just what she thought she was getting up to later. For now, he simply turned a smile on the twins.

"Well, what do we have here? Enjoying a romp around the ship?"

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[strange_wonders]

Howl could definitely tell they were not as they appeared, though for now he though he'd humor them and see what they were up to. In general, he was not the sort to ruin someone else's fun, but if they meant any harm to the ship or its occupants, he'd feel obligated to step in.

"I don't suppose a friend of mine had a hand in getting you those bodies, did she?" He knew the answer, of course, but it would be interesting to see if they were aware, or just some sort of shade that Sophie had managed to talk corporeal for a time.

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[madhattersophie]

Really, she should just learn not to say things at all during the Long Night. When would she learn that anything she said, whether meant to be a spell or not, was bound to rebound on her in strange ways?

The air had been weird ever since they'd come to this town, but she was pretty sure that weirdness did not, in fact, include the small twins that had somehow been let loose upon the ship. She was fairly sure that was her fault. Which was why she was now looking for the two of them.

Really, a pair of boys shouldn't be that hard to find, right?

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[madhattersophie]

Oh no, oh no... if they ruined the ship, it would be all her fault, in the end, really. But it had been a long time since she had dealt with small children--either on the Way or, before that, her own sisters, and she hesitated. Not for long, before she was rushing over to them. "Now what do we have here?" She asked in what she hoped was an admonishing enough tone of voice.

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