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Ollie runs faster trying to get at Mini, until he slips in the snow and collapses quite goofily, still making biting motions in Mini's direction even as he flails around on the ground.

Tabetha grinned at Cris, suddenly. "Ohh, no need for introductions, darling! I know exactly who you are! I've heard of your escapades, and they are incredible!"

Tabetha leans closer, placing a hand on the vigilante's shoulder. "But I wasn't expecting such a powerful vigilante to show up tonight..."

Tabetha looks Light Raygun directly in the eyes, with a smirk that she was no doubt familiar.

"You're... not here to be a killjoy, are you, dear?"

Runs to hide behind Light while the dog is distracted from the fall.

The gentleman leans down to the front of the sleigh and hummed for a bit, before touching the crumpled portions. Where his hands could touch the contraption, a glowing radiance shone underneath and the material righted itself, as if reversing the effects on impact. "It's not much and it will take some time, but..."

"Ohoho, someone is going on the good list this year!" Nick's look of worry transforms to one of jollity as the front of the sleigh reconstructs itself. "That looks like it will hold just fine until I can get back to my workshop. Now all we need is a dose of good deeds to get the ol' magic working again," he announces, as if this is the most natural thing in the world to repair a broken vehicle.

Nick also heads over to sit neck to Raygun, heaving himself down into a chair with a bit of a huff and a puff.

Ollie sits up, grinning up at Raygun, thumping his tail on the snowy ground. "I caught that lizard, did you see?" he borks, lolling his tongue.

"Fairly sure the sleigh can be repaired easily, but you still need to rest and recover or it won't be going anywhere of its own... unless it actually can?" Cris asked Nick, aware that just like her world had no-driver vehicles, there were places where magic could make things float as of their own accord. Still, she figured that refreshments and rest would do the traveller heaps of good....

"Huh?" Surprised at Tabetha's words, she nonetheless smiled. "My reputation preceedes me, even here? Didn't think I was so fam--" And then something about the other's tone and that smirk, suddenly rang all kinds of bells. "... Oh for the sake of winter, are the worlds that small?" She couldn't help give into a surprisingly heartfelt laugh... even if there was a faaaint warning glance afterward. "Well, my intent was to have a nice evening off, hopefuly NO-thing bad is going to happen..." Had she put the emphasis on the NO by coincidence, or....?

As Mini hid behind her, she grinned. "Ah, stand still, elf pal - we are now being bodyguards that must look unsuspicious!"

"Perhaps my work here is done, then. Should let someone else take charge. I'll help myself to any hors d'eovers I can find." Again with the horse divorce. "Thank you for the hot chocolate, hostess."

Now that it seemed things were improving, even if by a little, everyone could relax and enjoy themselves again. Fae disappeared for a few moments only to return with a drink for herself and Nick which she silently handed to him.

Nick accepts the drink gratefully. Whatever it was before, as soon as he takes it it becomes a mug of hot cocoa, heaped with whipped cream and speared with a peppermint stick. He removes one red glove to swirl the drink around using the peppermint stick. "Thank you, you're all most kind. Maybe I can show you all my appreciation with some gifts?"

"Oh, but why would you even say such a thing?!" Tabetha cried out, once again in an over-the-top, dramatic fashion.... even though she knew why Raygun would put emphasis on the NO. "This glorious gala has been going swimmingly! Nothing bad can happen now!"

Turning back to Nick, Tabetha leaves the vigilante's side. "A gift, you say?! I- We would be honoured, sir!"

Not at all bothered by the sleigh drama, Ollie trotted up to the Masked Fae, wagging his tail hopefully. Maybe this was a new friend? He gave her a very close sniffing to see!

Sneaks behind someone and playfully tackles the person's foot

In the midst of this chaos, another woman in a butterfly-like mask and a matching purple dress hurried in with a large tupperware container of cookies.

"Man this time of year is insane!" She muttered to herself "I hope I didn't miss too much..."

Nick takes a long swig of his hot chocolate, leaving a bit of whipped cream in his white mustache. "How wonderful, most wonderful," he says to Tabetha, and passes her his mug, murmuring, "Will you hold this for me for a moment, dear?" With that, he heaves himself back to his feet and bounds over to his sleigh, pulling a large burlap sack from the back. He brings it back over to the little group, holding it open for Tabetha, Light Raygun and the Masked Fae. Inside the bag the infinite cosmos appears to swirl. "Go on! Reach in and pick your gift!" he enthuses, a bit of a flush in his cheeks from the cold. ((I'll let each of you decide what wild, weird or wonderful gift you end up with.. Or, may I refer you to this or this or this))

"Well you never know. It doesn't hurt to keep an eye out, does it?" Cris replied to Tabetha, asking after a minute: "Oh, by the way - I don't think i got your name?" Weirdly enough since she talked with great familiarity, as if they had known each other from elsewhere... but then why she'd be asking what name she went by? "I'm just such a disaster with names, with all the things one must remember", she xplained with a disarming smile that was the portrait of innocence. "When I say that, people don't believe me but it's true..." Turning to Nick, she reassured: "Gifts are always welcome but you owe nothing for helping, it's what everyone would do." She wondered if there was any hot tea in addition to chocolate, since the latter was off limits for her...

The Duchess senses a new arrival, and turns to see the Candy Fairy approaching. Ah, another person who appreciated a good holiday tradition, perhaps? "Welcome, friend!" she calls out. "What manner of delights have you brought for us?"

"Hello there!" Candy Fairy called back "I take it you're the host of this lovely gathering?" As she approached the Dutchess she proudly held up the container "I brought a bunch of my handmade cookies, though looking at the size of this party I'm not sure I brought enough." Especially with how popular anything I make tends to be. She thought to herself, refraining from adding it because she didn't want to come across as a braggart.

As Tabetha held onto Nick's mug, she turned back to Cris with a flourish. "Me? ...Why, my name is Tabetha Marrowheart! Remember it well!"

Smiling with an inherent smugness, she whipped her head around to face the swirling cosmos inside the bag Nick unveiled to them. Handing his cocoa back to him, Tabetha enthusiastically reached inside with both arms, only to pull out and unwrap...

"A... ukulele?" Indeed, once that small, red with black accents. Tabetha's theatrical accent dropped. "It's... It's beautiful!"

She hugged it close, strumming it with unusually long claws. "Thank you.... Thank you!"