Bracelets for the soul

    Cyrus could barely take this new spooky scary date seriously. A test of courage? Really? What is this, boy scouts? The idea that a bunch of people in fake costumes on a fake TV show would be attempting to get a rise out of the two of them was laughable, and by Alti's eager reaction he could already tell this was going to just be one big joke. With a sneer on his face he took a good look at their thickly forested surroundings, trying to squint and pick out where the cameras were. This was the only aspect of the date that was even remotely terrifying. But confident he wouldn't do anything stupid enough to cause him problems back at home, he and his partner began their trek through the wooded maze.


    The scientist smirked and let his partner swing his arm around, keeping a sharp eye on the trees and the thickets surrounding them for any openings. A grin began to spread across his face as Alti chimed with contagious excitement, his boyfriend at the most enthused that he'd seen him for any of the dates so far. Cute. "Hell I'd bet we could get there before the 10 minute grace period is up," he teased with a wink, squeezing the other's hand as they made their way through the first break in the foliage. "There's a whole formula to labyrinths, yeah? Stick to one wall and you'll eventually find it to the exit," he mused, pointing to the opaque foliage to their right with his free hand.

    Past their first opening, they got a glimpse of the first couple up ahead. The mousy popstar and General Bacon. "Although Alti," he spoke loudly enough for the others far in front of him to hear, "I think we're going the wrong way if we're already coming across losers like these. Maybe we should turn around," he laughed.

    Alti strolled alongside his partner as they made it past the clearing way before the grace period had ended-- just as the scientist had guessed. Long legs really must've had its perks, then; he wasn't even trying to get to their checkpoint that quickly, but really, who was he to complain? At least he's still being "forced" to bum around in a forest for a whole night. As they continued to walk, he pondered if the slight anatomical advantage that he and the scientist had over some of the other contestants --as well as his own numbness to commercial jump-scares-- would make them more likely to nab the flag first. Along with the glorified nerd's helpful hint about labyrinthine structures, it seemed like it might've been true...


    That was, until the urge to stop and heckle a couple of said contestants seemed to wash over the both of them simultaneously as they trekked towards the band of losers, as his boyfriend so eloquently put it. He glanced the popstar first, the man snickering her way once he recalled just how exasperated his soulmate was when he was sent out to venture the town with the little gumdrop before bringing his gaze up toward her partner, in all her lace-fraying glory. "Ohh yes, let's!" he chimed, "Wouldn't wanna stay around this sorry family unit for too long! Baby over here might piss her pants any minute now!"

    "Didn't you hear, sweetie?" he poked at Piami with a fake look of concern, "There's mooooooooonsters in these woods...." They eventually passed the two, Alti snickering the entire way as the two brought themselves closer to the trees, still in earshot of the other couple just in case either of them cared to try anything. 

Alraada could tell from the 'plan' that vale was a little antsy to get in front of the other couples, and this frightened her.
She didn't want them to lose, but it would be best that he couldn't see anyone directly in case he decided to make another terrible decision.
Alraada was becoming frustrated herself, and she never thought the loss of a stupid maze would mean that someone would have their life on the line.
Her shaking hands grabbed onto the fabric of Vale's clothing as she felt him turn around.
When he got to a good place, she spoke up.
"St-stop! S-stop, spinning now."She sputtered, a bit quieter than she wanted to
She closed her eyes, awaiting the near inevitability of Vale dashing forward into a tree, or to knock her off and continue, or her quick statement telling him to stop spinning would somehow offend his pride and be would blow up the forest.
She hated how little faith she had in her soulmate, but after all that's happened, she didn't blame anyone but vale for her thoughts.
And after her promise, she didn't have after the experiment to look forward to either.
Well, someone has to make sure he's not hurting anyone.
Or at least be the sponge for his frustrations in the worst case scenario.
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Galystris felt that piami had taken her hand, and immediately moved it away despite how she had done the same thing for Piami earlier in the experiment when she was trying to be nice.
"Then if we need to go, then why don't you move instead of stopping me in my tracks." She bit back, giving piami rather underserved rudeness, possibly to see if she could elicit a reaction from her. Any reaction at all other than just sit and take it.
Passive housewife types who couldn't speak up were not the kind of people she was interested in. At all.
Looking back at Alti, she was just annoyed with his presence.
"I'm not going to refute any of your claims, but go bother someone else. I'm not sure you're appreciated anywhere but in your soulmates pants or in Aberdeen's pants." She growled as she continued forward.
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"S-security!" They called into a walkie talkie, and immediately, two big people came out of from the trees and hoisted up nace and Amil, and carried them out of the forest and into a nearby building that held a room where the show was broad cast. Once they were rudely dropped in there, Elenara quite literally kicked down the door in frustration and walked up to the two.
"What the hell are you doing?! Can you not play a game without getting up in each others assholes? Oh wait. You can't. That's all you two do." She nearly yelled, while the security guards glanced at each other behind her.
"Ugh, well at least you can waste your time in here. Go on." Said waving her hand." She left and slammed the door behind her whole muttering something about how she 'missed Tyreithillis and how she could handle these test subjects because she hated all of them.' The security guards looked at each other, opened up the door and shuffled out, leaving the couple alone.

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At that moment, something in Piami.....just snapped.

"You know what? I cannot let you talk to me like this!" Piami spoken loudly to her soulmate "Galy, if you're going to talk so rudely, talk like that to those that were willing to HURT you, like the ones in the battle field!!"

And with that, Piami runs off from Galystris. Due to the caffeine, she was able to run faster than usual.

First it was her first soulmate being unfaithful.

Now, it's Galystris talking very rude to her in live television.

This is not working

Piami has very terrible luck with love.

Could anyone legitimately like her for who she is?

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Maicy nodded and followed Aberdeen.

"Sounds like a plan."

She does kind of notice that her partner sounded a little less confident there. Hopefully they are doing okay..

Nothing bad has happened so far but given the group of people both her and Aberdeen had to be around, that would probably last for a short period of time.

((Piami Movement))

    Alti sneered at the war general as the pairs kept walking forward, the man almost pleased with her disdain for the pink gumball. Looks like he wouldn't need to carry through with that little threat he gave her all those days ago after all, as if he even planned to when he made it; he had way better things to do than hang around the whiny little idol, and by the look on her charred soulmate's face, so did Galystris. He mentally issued a short-lived finger-clap at the woman after she got her little dig in, the goofy look on his face failing to falter. "Aw come on, Baconator! Ya gotta give me more credit than that!" he joked as he waved a hand at her and winked, "I'm sure Aberdeen'll appreciate anything with a heartbeat giving 'em the time of day down there! Maybe y--"


    Alti raised an eyebrow at the little tot after her 'heated' tirade rudely cut him off. That was pretty unexpected of her, although way more entertaining in comparison to the usual way she carried herself, admittedly. Wonder what got into her system, he inquired to himself for only a brief moment before her soulmate started going off at her without actually going anywhere. Alti merely chuckled at the general's frustration.

    "D'aww, you're better off without her anyway~!! She was waaaaay too soft for a big ol' brute like you, if ya ask me!" he teasingly assured her, nudging his partner in the arm as if to wordlessly suggest a 'Don't you agree?'. He outstretched his arm towards the woman, almost as if he were inviting her into a friendly side hug despite not making any actual effort to move toward her. If he read her as well as he thought he did during their sparse interactions, there'd be no need. "Hey!" he jokingly blurted, "Why don'tchu hang with us for a bit, eh? Spend time with two exciting cases probably more tragic than yourself! Sure beats slummin' it alone with the trees...." he chimed.

At this point, Aberdeen had begun to grow irritated. With the lack of ANYONE else showing up, accompanied by the fact that night was quickly approaching, the fighter couldn't help but feel restless. They wanted nothing more than to find the flag, grab it, and be done with this garbage excuse for a date. As they let their hand graze across the tree wall, they spotted an opening in the distance. Their mood immediately brightened, if only for a moment, before realizing that was likely where someone was to pop out at them.

"Hey, look over there!" They chimed as they began picking up the pace, steeling their nerves for anything that came next.

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Amil smiled at his partner and honored his request. The man laid next to him, resting his head on his arms as he stared up at the television. "This is pretty nice~!" He responded as he watched the broadcast switch between the myriad of uninteresting subjects of this god-awful experiment. His smile was quickly washed away with the absolute bore that this television show was turning out to be. No one had even gotten scared yet! This was just a romp in the woods.

"I'm glad we got ourselves disqualified." He snickered. "I'd hate to spend the entire night walking through those boring ass woods with the possibility of running into the even more boring couples. Why they're wasting their time is beyond me." He grinned as he turned over towards his partner. "Its muuuuuch nicer in here!"

((Movement))

"Lovers? You are not very observant, are you blondie?" She bit back, annoyed once again with those standing near her.
She knew which direction would take her towards the flag, but that would have her in Piami's direction.
Galystris avoided Alti's Christian side hug offer, with a visible look of confusion and slight disgust at the gesture.
"Until I can find a way to divert from Piami's route, I'll keep down this one. I short, no, I don't want to be around you people, but I'd rather be around a borderline criminal and his arm candy than a steroidal five year old." She grumbled. She slowed her pace but moved forward, as she wanted to not look at these new people, but not run into Piami.
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Holding on tight, Alraada feared desperately that she was going to fall off despite how secure her death grip on her soulmate was.
Seeing her soulmate skid to a halt and continue with this unnervingly cheerful attitude (although she never could really tell when he was happy anymore.)
"Yeah...." She whispered halfheartedly has she looked down at vale's feel and in which direction he was turning.
A bunch of free space made itself visible in her line of sight, and she could see a bit of a clear path forward.
Breathing in quickly, Alraada exclaimed a "Stop spinning!" slightly more confidently than before, adjusting her arms for when her soulmate would make a beeline for their next destination.
She hoped this strategy was working.
At least they were most likely making much larger strides than their fellow test subjects.

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