Sienna watched the entire scene and smirked. She was going to say something when the second came up an was a bit dramatic. Part of nature was destruction and the kids were definitely good at that.

"So, Q is it? She seems intense and, hopefully, won't do anything to those kids. Now, I'd love to get a tour and I'm sure many of my viewers would too." She didn't actually know much about plants except that they tended to mature faster around her. "And I have to say I love the hair color, I think we might match." She turned the camera around and moved over to the pixie so they could both be seen in the recording. "What do you think? Let us know in the comments." She pointed down before going back to just being a camera woman/narrator.

Q laughed and shrugged, "That's Iris for ya. She's a little possessive of the flowers and I can understand why. I mean, a lot of these aren't even meant to grow here, ya know? Climate's too cold or too dry or... too not-the-right-Realm. And then ya got ones that don't have the proper pollinators. Lots going on! Some of them take some serious magic to keep alive, much less healthy and blooming."

He grinned up into the camera for Sienna, happy as a little bumblebee to be talking about his beloved gardens. Q leaned forward in excitement, suddenly seeming to recall a detail of great interest, "Oh! I know! Dr. Avalon is setting up a new greenhouse display on the other side of the park. It's still a work in progress, mind ya, but it's coming along super nice. I think he was saying that he'd display a bunch of orchids there, once it's ready."
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An opportunity presents. There's a girl in the gardens area talking to some staff, she's not exactly close to the food area but she draws enough attention towards herself to be an effective distraction. Dalion paces around picking up some leftovers from the tables and some sauce satchels from the stands, half a soda from a guy intensely staring towards the gardens and some a tray of Pixie Sushi from another.

Haha! That girl really knows how to draw attention towards herself- Dalions thinks to himself.

[Rolled a 1D6, result: 2]

Sienna was largely oblivious to whatever was happening outside of her own, little world.

"Oh, really? There are flowers from the faerie realms here? I'm sure everyone would be interested in learning more about those? Are they magical?" Magic might be real but most people had only a little experiences with it if any at all. Sienna had been that was growing up, she remembered the first time she saw a magical being.

"Oh, stay tuned everyone. I'll head over there for our next video. So, Q, anything else you'd like to tell the world? Do you have any accounts you'd like to give a shoutout about?"

It was then she noticed the pixie food being taken, "hey, what's going on over there?" She gestured to the not so subtle man.

Dalion kept pacing around with his attention focused on whatever else he could take. He took a strange-looking flask from a table, it had all the rainbows colors and was shaped after a cockroach. "What?" While looking at the thing he bumped into someone else walking in the opposite direction, quickly apologizing he started to walk faster towards any exit from the food court while lowering his eyes. Unknowingly he walked towards the garden area, and when he finally looked up he saw the luring girl and the pixie in front of her looking directly in his direction.

"Oh no!"

He suddenly tried to turn around but he did so with a surprising lack of coordination he tripped with...himself?

"SHIT!"

He found himself in all fours with all his loot scattered on the ground below him.

Sienna's first thought was that she was going to have to edit all this out and that would take some extra time. At least she hadn't decided to livestream today. Although, might have made for some compelling watching it didn't really fit in her brand.

Closing her camera and slipping it into her bag, she moved a little closer to the man and looked down, "Are you okay? What...well it seems pretty clear what's going on but stealing from the gardeners is really not cool."

"And now I'm being lectured by a kid with a camera, great" Dalion smumbled under his breath.

He sights and shook off the dirt from his pants and hands while trying to look around [Rolled 1D6, result: 1] and see how many people noticed his little "incident". Ignoring the young girl at first but eventually addressing she hasn't left yet.

"Ahem! I... erm... I was just picking up some trash, besides, it's none of your business what I do little girl" Deception [Rolled 1D6, result: 6]

Dalion made sure to at least pick up the strange-looking flask and put it in his pocket.

Sienna certainly didn't like what she was hearing.

'Kid' 'little girl'

Seemed she wasn't alone in picking up on that. However, she did get a sense he was just mumbling to himself on the first but she could hear it clearly.

"I don't know who you think you're talking to like that. I'm neither a kid nor a girl. The correct term I prefer would be woman, I'll take young woman or lady even. Stealing from workers, though, that's not something you get to just be blasé about." From a closer distance it was might be noticeable that she was perfectly symmetrical, her skin flawless and other than lipstick and the eye art she wasn't wearing the basics of foundation, blush or anything else. Nothing out of place at a fae festival, but she didn't seem to carry herself like she was fae.

"Yeah yeah whatever you say ki- erm... uh... lady?" Dalion took a second to look at her from top to bottom, the red-haired girl looks quite dashing with her long skirt and top of very trippy colors, thinking the girl must be very accustomed to being the center of attention everywhere she goes.

"Damn you sure look like you belong around here Ha Ha, are you looking for your lost ancestry or something? Ha Ha Ha!" He teases. But immediately afterward his stomach grumbles, cutting short his laughter. He looks down and sees that everything he looted was wasted on the ground.

_{Dammit, everything went to waste and now I'm littering too} he mumbled quietly between his teeth. Dalion looked around noticing that he's drawing way more attention than he would like to, and the girl's looks and attitude are drawing even more eyes in his direction. Worrying about being identified and kicked out of the festival he started trying to walk away from there, ignoring the red-haired girl again.

When Sienna was on she very much was on and did have a tendency to garner a lot of attention. It was her job, though she did wear many hats with that job.

"You know, contrary to your general negativity and comments about my outfit aside," she rather liked what the community had chosen, "I think today I'll live by the words of CD Broad, 'that each of us has a special obligation to benefit others' and get some food for you. There's a truck that has tater tots that smell amazing." While she quoted a philosophy of altruism she was really more of the mind that altruism may not exist and that it along with humanism (well, metahumanism) were the morally right position but one that carried along with it a healthy bit of self interest.

Dalion stopped on the spot, looking from over his shoulder at the girl who so stubbornly seems to want to be heard, she reminded him of a certain someone of his past, a headstrong co-worker and friend from the university who taught philosophy, the memory of nice endless coffee table conversations and debates made him ponder for a moment.

Ha ha ha! well, I'll be damned! Dalion turns towards the girl with a smile and starts quoting "I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone. In compassionate men (or in this case woman), severity is a virtue." or at least that's what Nietzche would say to your C.D. Broad, but the truth is I don't think Nietzche ever had to sustain himself with other's leftovers while he wrote all his "grandiose ideas" about morality and ubermensch so... yeah, I'll take you on that offer princess Dalion estimated that he would be much less likely to be kicked out if he stuck with the girl that looked like the fae queen of the festival, after all, nobody messes with the young pretty girls in this kind of "nice" events, even if they are accompanied with the damned swamp ogre.

But noticing all the trash he almost left behind Dalion kneeled after saying: "I'll need a minute though, and also, I don't know who you're talking to about negative comments about your outfit, I haven't said shit about that" and started picking up the trash.

All the while that this has been happening, Q hovered close by Sienna's shoulder, listening to the exchange. He seemed to think about the situation for a moment before flitting down close to Dalion, where he knelt.

"Hey, don't worry about that too much. Why don't you go get some food in ya? Still lots of time before the festival begins proper. So, a little extra clean-up is nothing," he smiled and shrugged.

Solstice stepped through the entrance of the park, looking around with wide eyes and wringing his hands with a slightly slouched posture. His wings were down and pressed close to his body. "I can't believe I let you talk me into this..." He mumbled to his companion.

Dr. Orrus chuckled and patted Solstice on the shoulder, "This will be good for you. Get out, meet some people, have a little fun!"

The doctor took a deep breath, taking in the fresh scent of the mountain air, along with the scent of flowers mingled with... funnel cakes? It seemed that some of the food booths were already running, taking advantage of feeding the crews setting up for the evening's festivities.

Sienna rolled her eyes when Nietzche was brought up. "While not my least favorite philosopher there are plenty of problematic issues with Nietzche's philosophies and views but his anti socialist bent would probably be the most important feature now when I'm offering to share the wealth. Although, I'll admit that's a bit unfairly reductive in regards to the totality of Nietzhe's views on politics and morality." She was far from a princess, she had to work a lot for her money. But she was also quite well educated. One of her youtube channels was a series on the modern application of philosophical theory, specifically how humanity's morality had been shaped in the last several decades since supernaturals had let themselves be known.

She turned to Q, "Thanks for the offer. And, if you're interested in doing some shows let me know. I have guests regularly and I'm sure people would love to hear about the plants and everything else."

Sienna returned her attention to the strange man who was clearly poor but quoting 19th century philosophy. "I'm going to go order, any allergies? It's all vegan so the cheese is either cashew or nutritional yeast." She had no allergies except she didn't do so well with cast iron pans. Steel was fine, though. That definitely added to the belief there was a little fae in her family history.

Once she got the information, Sienna was off and ordering.
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Solstice shied away from the crowd. "But there's so much going on here..." He mumbled. Then he smelled the sweet scent of fair food and looked around for the source.

Looking surprised at the Pixie talking to him Dalion answered " I... well... uh... alright little fellow, I'll leave it to you and the other Santa's helpers"

It seems that Dalion's luck was improving that night, he stood up and looked again at the red-haired girl, half-listening her retort. "uh looks like I got a do-gooder tonight". Dalion understood from the small exchange between her and the pixie that she makes some kind of show involving interviews and that she wasn't part of the festival's staff, maybe she's some kind of journalist? although her clothes were too flamboyant to be the case.

"Aye aye Ma'am" he stood up straight, parodying the military decorum "No Ma'am, I wouldn't have lived this long on the streets if I had to worry about such things as allergies" he said laughing lightly, she now reminded him of some of his students, the ones who were top students but also very attractive, he always thought those were the ones with the most rotten attitudes but also the ones who were the most lonely. "Sure, whatever weeds you provide will feed this donkey well enough, I'm not picky". Dalion followed the red-haired girl a couple steps behind.

"And that's what makes it wonderful," Dr. Orrus chuckled and gave Solstice a gentle push between the shoulder blades, encouraging him forward. "Look! I think the stands are over that way."

Orrus pointed off to the right, towards some pastel tents. Nearby was a small gathering of people, what appeared to be two humans and a pixie conversing about something. At their feet was a small pile of what appeared to be dropped food.

As they stood there, considering where to go, there was a sudden hue and cry that arose from somewhere off to the side. Suddenly, a grown man came running across the park, his arms held over his head protectively as an irate pixie dive-bombed him. Tiny poofs of pixie dust peppered his hair and shoulders and, above all the other sounds of the park, Iris's high-pitched voice could be heard, "No touching! Shoo!"

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"Aw, dagnabit... Uh, I should probably go save him," Q started to drift away from Dalion and Sienna. He doffed his hat in polite apology, "I'd love to do a show with you later!" And, with that parting comment, he was gone, undoubtedly set upon trying to rein in his coworker before she terrorized anyone else.
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Pixies, not elves. Not that she knew if there was even a Santa. That was something she was curious about.

"I wouldn't know about that. I mean, my mom and I had some rough times when she lost a job or there were budget cuts and we had to live on rice and instant ramen but thankfully we only had to move from rental to rental instead of losing a place completely." She was glad that she was now able to help her mother out. "I do have a couple of allergies, though." Well, one. But she didn't mention what it was.

They arrived at the food truck she'd picked and she ordered before letting the man get whatever he wanted as well before paying. once they were waiting, Sienna asked a question, "there aren't many people on the streets who can readily quote philosophy. What's the deal?"

Solstice let himself be pushed forward, but not without a slightly miffed wing flick. He turned towards where the good doctor had pointed and saw the food. But then he saw the two humans and the food on the ground and mentally prepared for a fight to break out. But the food smelled so good. "I haven't had fae cooking in forever. It smells even better than I remember." He let his feet start to carry him towards the smell.

Dalion walked next to the red-haired girl, apparently, she meant it when she said she would buy him some food, looking inside the food truck he yelled at the cook: "Hey! I want whatever bullshit you think you would feed a Gorilla, I hear they only eat weeds, and yet they can tear a man in two, so give me whatever will make me strong like one!" 

As he listened to the red-haired girl share about her mother and their struggles his face changed for a moment, he listened with a serious expression, when he realized this he remembered to smile again and said "Yeah, I hope that you're not one of those kids that choke from just imagining a peanut, that life sucks, and ah... about the philosophy thing well... maybe I heard it somewhere or maybe I'm the reincarnation of Diogenes the Cynic eh? who knows?He he!

Dalion noticed a scrawny figure closing in his direction, walking like a zombie.

"And what about you? did you come to claim your birthright and rule over your kind or something?" he asked jokingly.

Solstice heard the man address him and froze in his tracks, taking a step back. His wings dipped down behind his back and his bright red eyes went wide. Then logic caught up with him. There was no way in all of the realms this random human knew about any of that. "N-no... I-" He glanced away then back at the man. "I was just..." He waved his hand vaguely.

The man was quite strange but the chef seemed to not mind as long as they were selling. "One everything coming up."

The smell of fried potatoes wafted through the air. "No, nothing like that. Just some annoying ones. And, just hearing that quote isn't common, referencing Diogenes outside of Sherlock Holmes even moreso." Definitely something going on with this one.

Sienna couldn't help but laugh, "I'm here working. My followers wanted me to come, picked my outfit and everything. So, I'm here making some videos about the event. Posting some pictures, too." It wasn't exactly glamorous work, but it more than paid the bills.

Seeing the fae join, "Oh, hello."

If there was one thing Solstice had imagined from coming here, it wasn't humans being so eager to talk to him. He was used to being ignored in favor of Novin. Who was probably behind him grinning like crazy at seeing the normally reclusive fae making friends. Solstice smiled uneasily at the woman greeting him. "H-hello... How are you doing?" He asked awkwardly.

Dalion found his reaction a little strange but quickly forgot about it.

So the "little girl" has some kind of followers that she somehow tries to please disguising herself and posting pictures and videos? Dalion didn't quite understand how she could make a living doing that but honestly, it would classify as one of the least weird things he has seen in his life.

Hey, red-eyes! why don't you take a seat and order something? you really look like you need to have a sandwich, don't worry! Miss bleeding heart here got you covered!