Kitty-cat Returns [open]

Leila stepped past the threshold and into the guild hall, the familiar smells immediately filling her nose. However, her cat ears twitched atop her head slightly as she realised there were many unfamiliar scents in the air as well and as she glanced around she noticed a fair amount of new faces she didn't recognise around the guild office. While some of these were simply clients quite a few bore the mark of the guild as well; it seemed many new members had joined the ranks since she had left to sort herself out. After an exciting but terrifying time at the zoo with Haru the Joyan girl had realised her feelings, unsure what to do about them she had ran, left to journey and learn more about other guilds in the land on the way while she avoided the one person she wished to be near the most.

However, Leila knew deep down she couldn't stay away forever, she needed to return if she wished to grow stronger and find a way to avenge her mother. So with that thought in mind she found herself once more in the place she had come to call her home. Her yellow orbs continued to search the room, attempting to find her close friend in the process. She was unsure what she'd even say to him after all this time, but hopeful he had missed her even just a pinch as much as she had him. Leila could feel her anxiety growing on her as she thought more about the conversation that was no doubt ahead of her soon enough, her stomach clenched and she could feel hot and cold flushes already beginning to grow; her skin beginning to feel the burn of the first intense heat of the cycle that only reminded her further of her fiery friend.

There was a bit of staff shortage behind the bar at the guild today, Nessa watched from her seat at the bar, as the staff struggled to keep up with all their jobs. She bit her lip, feeling awkward, she just couldn't sit their while they struggled. Sipping on her juicing casually the way she was, she just felt like it wasn't fair of her to do nothing. Even if it was technically her day off. Sighing, she put down her glass, leaning over the bar, she picked up an empty tray. "Look, just relax a bit. I'll start clearing tables, I'm not doing anything anyway." She told the bartender, not stopping to listen to their protests, she turned and hopped off her stool. She made her way across the room, idly stacking plates onto her tray, followed by glass after glass. The pile on her tray getting higher and higher until she couldn't hardly see over it.

A person with a significant amount of common sense would have known not to pile the plates and glasses so high, but Nessa was oblivious as always. Just wanting to clear up as much as possible, she awkwardly balanced the pile on her tray, looking up at it nervously and clearly not looking where she was going. It was because of this lack of sense, that Nessa didn't see the girl come into the guild, not realising she was in front of her as she felt a knock. The glasses rattled, after a small attempt to rebalance them, they began to fall, several pieces going flying. She reached out, trying to catch them. Only sending more off the tray. Suddenly orbs of soft light appearing around her , darting under the plates and glasses barely stopping them from crashing to the ground. Floating in the air around them, Nessa stood still for a moment, surprised she had actually managed to pull that off. The bar staff looking at her in horror, their faces pale with momentarily terror. "It's okay! I didn't break any...this time." She told them reassuringly, then she looked at the girl on front of her, an embarrassed smile on her face.

"Sorry about that!"

Unable to find Haru in the crowd and assuming he must be out on a mission, Leila’s yellow eyes stared as she watched the commotion unfold before her. First a couple girls, one who appeared close to her own age and another a few years younger, seemed to be helping with dishes, something that was fairly uninteresting to the neko girl. However, she heard yet another female running towards her as her voice rang out through the hall. Leila turned to see a familiar face at last as the young girl ran over tabletops, a sight that brought a small smile to the Joyan girl’s face, she was about to give a small wave in response however before she could do so she suddenly felt something tap her in the back, as Leila turned she saw a large stack of dishes suddenly start to fall. She closed her eyes and flicked back her ears as she braced herself for the sound of crashing, but after not hearing anything after a few seconds she opened one yellow eye to see that instead of hitting the floor and breaking the mage had managed to catch every last dish with what appeared to be balls of light. A sight that made the shadow mage take an uneasy step back before responding to the girl’s apology.

"Ah, it’s fine." Leila responded, short and sweet with little more than a nod. Before her now stood the girl she had seen collecting the dishes for the bar staff earlier and another pile of dishes seemed to be teetering nearby as well that squeaked out a ‘hello’ in her direction. Knowing a nod wouldn’t suffice, as she couldn’t see the smaller girl’s face behind the pile of plates Leila internally sighed, "Hello to you too." she replied curtly, trying not to get too caught up in the niceties of the moment. Leila was about to turn back to ask Althea if she had seen Haru lately when her eyes spotted a glimpse of sky blue on the left arm of the shorter girl, it seemed she had a Fairy Tail guild tattoo. "I take it you two are members here as well then?" Leila asked bluntly, unsure just how recently they had joined, she was fairly certain she had met most of the older members by this point, so they had to be new, right? The Joyan girl suddenly remembered she had something more important to ask, "Oh Althea!" She exclaimed her eyes wandering back over to the little juice loving mage, "Have you seen Haru around?" Leila enquired, trying not to sound too hopeful, after all she had already sort of given up hope after not seeing him in the main hall.

Nessa couldn't help but feel a little touched when Arcadia started copying her and tidying up. She was such a little sweetheart, and it really made Nessa warm to think she had taken of sort of role model place in the girls mind. It however also applied the pressure of making sure not to do anything silly or inappropriate, not that Nessa really did that anyway. Not under normal circumstances.

Nessa used the levitating orbs to return the remaining plates to the bar, placing them softly on the counter. Then she headed straight over to Arcadia and began to collect half of her pile, "Let's not give the bar staff any more reason to panic." She said to the younger girl with a smile, before returning the washing up to the bar. She decided to let the bar-staff handle the washing up, at least the guild look a bit tidier now which had to be a pressure off of them. She looked over as the girl with black hair and very cute cat ears addressed her. Once again Nessa found her eyes drifting to the girls ears, it was such a cute feature on a person. Then she looked back to the girls face, smiling in her usual friendly manner. "Relatively, I've been here at least over a month now, My names Nessa." She told the girl.

She spotted Althea's approach and offered the girl a polite little wave, before casually listening to the interaction between the two mages. She glanced around, she hadn't seen Haru around today. But she figured she'd let Althea answer the question, as it had been directed at her anyway.