Private - A Way Through

Cherish was almost giddy. She hadn't seen Celestine in what had seemed like forever. Although Cherish had managed to talk to her a little bit before the big boss fight; the two of them hadn't really done anything other than that during the actual fight. This was to be the first time since Cherish had first logged into Terrasphere that they would be able to actually do something together... and Cell was late.

She checked her palm menu again; 10:07 AM.

Cherish's boot tapped against the ground repeatedly as she looked around at the empty street. After their conversation earlier that week, Cherish had finally managed to find the place where she intended the two of them to explore, along with a suitably close landmark as a meeting place. It was an old, abandoned Falderen settlement that had tried to spring up close to the coastal mountains of Portmont. However, the settlers had soon been forced out by the grass knolls that inhabited the region.

History is beside the point though. Once Cherish had found the two place she needed, she had sent another message to Celestine.

Cherish

Hey Cell, I found what I needed! If you could meet me at this settlement in Portmont at 10 am EST on saturday, that would be great!

Location Attached

Cherish let out a sigh. Maybe Celestine had gotten intercepted by bandits or grass knolls; maybe she had gone to some other ruin here in Pormont; maybe sh-- Ooooh, shiny. Cherish spotted something sparkling from within one of the dilapidated buildings across the road. Checking to make sure Celestine hadn't arrived yet, she made her way across the street.

@Celestine

 

"...you are sure she did the goings of this way?"

The plain village man nodded with some hesitation. The other felis had definitely gone that way, it was more the difficulty in understanding what this one was even asking him.

"Uhh... yeah: the felis girl with the axe went that way."

Celestine gave him a smile and a thumbs up. To his relief, she gave one last statement that he could only interpret as a ‘thank you’ before she went off towards the ruins.

Another several minutes passed as Cell muttered a quick complaint at the lack of a fast travel system in this game. There were horses, but those were smelly, and definitively "not cute," so until the game introduced My Little Pony cosmetic DLC, she’d be stuck walking everywhere. The struggles of a kawaii connoisseur...

Finally, Cel rounded a rocky outcropping to find a bunch of ruined buildings and an impatient looking neko.

"What is the time of the ESTs anyway...?" Cel gave it a quick pondering, but shrugged it off fairly quickly. "It is the ‘close enough o’ clock~!’"

Coming up several meters behind the girl, Cel began to creep up on her like a ninja, prowling through the tall grass with the stealth of a fog horn riding a bulldozer.

"Sneak sneak sneak sneak sneak sneak... GLOMP ATTACK~!"

Without any warning aside from the loud rustling of grass, the melodic chanting of ‘sneak’ echoing through the ruins, and her final war cry, Celestine launched forward, trying to wrap Cherish in a tackle-hug of epic proportions.

 

Cherish was not deaf; She heard the sound of the tall grass rustling behind her as soon as it started. Moving the last few steps towards the shinies, Cherish kneels down inside the ruin's entrance and quickly swipes them up. As it turned out, the shinies were just a few loose gold coins. Pocketing them, Cherish turn her attention to the noises behind her.

Turning around to the area of tall grass, Cherish can clearly see where the culprit was disturbing the foliage. As the disturbances came closer, she could hear a familiar voice whispering the word "Sneak" over and over. being much quieter than her Felis friend, Cherish moves off to the side of the tall grass - a large grin on her face - and away from where Celestine would have seen her before.

As Cherish expected, a greenish-blue blur leaped out from the grass towards its target. Unfortunately for the blur known as Celestine, her target was not where it had previously been. Instead of wrapping her arms around Cherish in a hug, she would find nothing but thin air and ruined buildings in front of her (Both of which are not very huggable).

Not able to contain her laughter anymore, Cherish breaks out into a fit of giggles. "Celestiiiiiine!!" Doing her own sort of leap at Celestine, Cherish wraps her arms around the teal haired Felis, in turn causing them both to fall to the ground in a soft pile. Cherish's giggles persist as she lies there on the ground, her cat ears rubbing against cell's. "Cell, it's so good to see you again! It feels like it's been forever since we last saw each other."