[amanda784]

Nala was back again. She gently let a hand rest on the stone. She admired the time it must have taken to dig and make the well. It was clearly made by hand, but there was a certain elegance to it. She knew the rumors of magic held in the well itself, but Nala found this whole area to have a bit of magic in it. She felt calm here. She sat with her back against the well and a hand on her pregnant stomach.

She sat there for what seemed like minutes, but was actually close to an hour. Her breathing came easier here. Somehow, in this place everything just felt right.

"I wish to make a home as magical as this place," said Nala aloud, but to no one in particular.

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[zapdragon555]

_{[Continued from here]}

"Hey, you waited!" Yato exclaimed as he walked up to the old wall that Yukine had been perched on for the past twenty or so minutes. The blond boy's head raised, a sour expression on his face as he peered up at the sheepish grin of his... acquaintance, he supposed. He didn't have a nicer word for what Yato was to him, and so that one would have to do. "Thanks a bunch. Made it totally easy to find you, unlike the usual. Have you considered GPS tracking—"

"No," Yukine said flatly, hopping off the wall and taking one last glance at the well. "Absolutely not. Creep."

"Gosh, I didn't mean anything by it!" Yato huffed, looking embarrassed, dejected... nothing he wouldn't bounce back from in the next few seconds. And sure enough, as the god's eyes fell on the old well, he'd forgotten all about his suggestion to limit what little freedom Yukine felt he had. Yato was worse than an overbearing parent. More like an overbearing boss who couldn't get anything done without his help. "Woooah... is that the well?"

"Only well around here," Yukine muttered, jamming his hands into his pockets and pulling out the coins. He held them out to Yato, who peered at them with a raised brow, taking one from the boy's palm to sniff and recoil. "What?"

"These are..." Yato brought it back to his nose and took a longer, slower sniff, his brow furrowing. "These... YEEK!" Yato shrieked and dropped the coins suddenly, startling Yukine out of his somber look, leaping backwards like a startled cat. The coins dropped to the grass, and Yato stared at the burnlike marks that had darkened the skin of his fingers. All at once the goofy atmosphere around the god faded, his blue eyes sharpening to slits. "Blighted."

Yukine was on alert, already inching closer to Yato as he put his eyes on the well, the coins on the ground, the area around them. "We can purify it later—we should get out of... here..." Yukine trailed off as the well began to rumble. The sky overhead, cloudy as it had been all day, began to darken. The rumbling began to rise to a roar, and Yato stood tall, squaring his shoulders as he stared it down, watched as a pair of eyes rolled out of the dark hole of the well, surrounded by thick clouds of murky black.

"Yukine... that storm's gonna have to wait."

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[Jaykobell]

The tiny Kodile awkwardly flew through the air. The little misshapen wings struggled to keep her afloat as she flew between people and creatures alike, more often than not coming much too close to crashing into something or someone.

But with enough determination, she managed to find her way to the well. She gasped when she saw the old, shabby shelter that covered it, and again when she barely managed to hold onto the edge of the well. With a grunt, she heaved herself onto the edge, and she peered down the well. And then, slowly, carefully, she dropped the singular Keystone in her mouth down the well.

[Raffle Post]

[crow]

If Yo-han knew where Dong-hyun was, he would probably have chided Dong-hyun for having childish superstitions.

Or, then again, maybe not. Three years ago, five years ago, he would have made a joke about it at least. But a lot of things had happened since then, and they were both different people now. Maybe now, Yo-han would have tossed a coin in too, made a wish together.

But maybe not. Either way, Dong-hyun had come alone. He was wearing a mask and sunglasses and a cap, but maybe he didn't need to bother; there was no one here. Fishing a coin out of his pocket, he tossed it in. For luck. Maybe they didn't need it anymore--- things had gone well, this past year--- but it couldn't have hurt, right?

(Raffle post)

[FrostWynd]

When you were no taller than someone's head, and tended to maybe obsess a teeny bit too much over the kinds of projects and experiments that were always on his mind, there would be moments that came up where you'd irritate others with the unavoidable, borderline ridiculous level of pacing around that he had done. All because he was missing a single important component!

Yet his so called friends had the nerve to call him annoying, flitting around like hyperactive bat, they said! And he'd be told to go take his fidgeting somewhere else. Which in a moment of anger about having his thoughts disrupted, had done exactly that to get away from them, although in doing so he kind of just wandered off to who knows where.

He must have been flying for a while, because suddenly he felt himself getting tired, and needed to land somewhere to rest for a few minutes. The only place that could be picked out among his options, would be some strange structure where he could see others were gathered around for some odd reason, and went down to investigate.

Landing onto the roof, and inching over to peer down past the edge to see what was inside, having no trouble in doing so thanks to his long neck, his frills opened up with slight curiosity at what was going on. Xehnon had to observe for a few minutes to get a grasp on what was going on, and eventually shifted into a state of mild confusion over his findings. A wishing well? The small dragon cast a dubious look upon the old dusty thing, and snorted with disbelief. There was no way this thing could actually grant wishes! If anything, these people were just being suckered into throwing away their money for something that wouldn't happen, and simply wasting their time!

Clearly he was smarter than that, and wouldn't be tricked so easily by something so ridiculous! There was no way that a mere well could do something like give him a new live specimen to conduct his experiments on with the new concoctions he'd been coming up with recently! Having seen enough, he'd leave in a huff.

A bag tied to his waist got bumped on the way out, dropping a gold coin onto the roof without his knowledge. With a couple bounces, it'd manage to find its way through a hole and dropped straight down into the well.

(Wishing for a Feline Specimen)

[ToxicShadow]

"I hope that the business continues to do well in the coming year," Honey whispered quietly, her two hands pressed together as she did. After the words were spoken, she tossed a few keystones into the well, and turned to take her leave.

She couldn't say that she believed in these sorts of things, really, but there was no harm in stopping by, anyway. Rosco had told her to take the rest of the day off today, since they'd been working so hard, and it felt nice just to go for a walk.

[Adelie]

Another fifteen minutes passed. Or thirty. Or forty-five. Ven had elected to stop checking her watch for fear of perceiving exactly how much time she had wasted today on this fruitless venture.

And it was only today. Oh god, was she going to have to come here tomorrow, too? Was she going to spend her entire weekend - no, her entire week - staking out a well like some kind of detective on the most boring assignment of all time?

Thankfully, someone finally dropped by. Someone wearing a ridiculous combination of a sun hat pulled low over their face and a scarf burying what bits of their face still appeared; someone who couldn't look more suspicious if they tried. She'd call that a warning sign, or suspect that they had something to do with whatever was happening with the wishing well - but honestly? With a get-up like that? There was no way they were getting away with anything sneaky.

Instead, she opted for the direct approach. "Hey!" she called out. "Um, I'm a student at the university around here, and I was wondering if I could have a moment of your time?"

(raffle ticket please!)

[ToxicShadow]

Business really had been good lately, and Rosco couldn't complain. He thought, more than ever, that Honey, and himself as well, needed a day off. Any paperwork and lose ends that needed to be tended to were already handled in the morning, and they had no cases or meetings for the evening. It was the perfect time to take a break.

Little did he know, his business partner had been there only moments before. Still, the man walked up to the well and immediately tossed in some keystones, simply saying, "Here's to the new year. Make it a great one."

[Kitsumi]

Kitsumi was back, but this time she had no wishes to make. She was simply happy to find a nice spot near the well and watch the people who came and made their own wishes. People watching was a fun little hobby of hers, and it was especially interesting when there was an occasion such as this, where many people were gathered.

As the people stepped up to the well, one by one, she surprised herself by making another wish. This one, however, was that the wishes of the others would be granted... so long as no harm would come to anyone by doing so, of course!

(Raffle post)

[Celtic]

Monkey decidedly shut his mouth, out of the utmost respect for Bear. This wish was silly, and he'd told him so before this journey, but it was important to him. If it was important to Bear, well Monkey would just have to deal with it.

Bear was feeling strangely nervous as he walked towards the well. He'd done many wild things before to rectify this situation, but this one felt different. He felt... Hopeful, where he'd been empty before. Scolding himself in his thoughts, Bear reminded himself it was just a wish. Wishes are far from guaranteed. Still, the hope remained and a smile creeped onto his face.

The pair reached the edge of the well and Monkey jumped from the rathril onto the edge, peering inwards. It was a fairly standard well, nothing that screamed magical. He turned back to his friend, sitting again and began to lick one paw in a lazy, disinterested sort of way. "This is it my friend."

Bear took a deep breath, and looked up at the sky. So it was. Now his thoughts had turned to considering what would happen if his wish came true, if she came back to him. Did he really want that? Was that going to make him happy? He truly didn't know. It'd been so long since he'd had her, been so long since he'd held her that he wasn't sure if that's what would be best for him. He just missed her so much, and every day.

He exhaled and realized, he wasn't ready. Not yet, not now. Instead, he'd wish for something practical, something both he and Monkey could use. In dropped the keystone.

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[GrayGriffin]

Nikey huffed slightly as he ran up to the well, clearly out of breath. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a single Keystone, standing on his tiptoes so he could drop it into the well.

"Hey!" he called. "I want to make a wish for my sister! I wish she could find someone she really likes who will treat her and me really nice!" There was a pause, before he added a quick "Thanks!" And with that, he turned around and scampered away, hurrying back before anyone would notice he was gone.

[Raffle post]

[Freezair]

Alright. If he couldn't tell by smell--either magical or mundane--there had to be some other means he could use to locate the other magic-user here.

Whenever he did magic, he had to do a gesture along with it. He snapped his fingers to make things happen! So he just had to spot someone in the crowd doing inexplicable gestures!

Unfortunately, as he was quickly learning, a lot of people did strange things when they were milling around.

He spotted several errant snappers... and looked up into their faces to see the white earbuds dangling out of their ears. A few people swaying back and forth wore similar "earrings." The local children were prone to twitching in their impatience... and so were the adults, come to think of it.

He was stumped.

[Jaden Wolf]

Seriously? He came like, twice, of his own volition and somehow it was his job to come check out this wishing well rumour?

Well, honestly it's not like he has anything better to do so...fine. When he remembered to come, anyway. He'd already missed several days (though no one even told him at least one day after the rumours started - so not entirely his fault).

He stopped at the side of the well, examining it briefly. It still looked like the same old well he'd been to before, but he had proved that it did work, at least on occasion. Might as well make a few actual wishes while here.

He fished out the coin out of his pocket and flicked it into the well.

((Wishing for a Premium Custom Token))

[amanda784]

Laura knew the moment she made her wish here that she would be back. Something about this place was so enticing to her. This time, she brought her camera. Laura wanted to take a picture of the well to place on a notebook at home. She wanted to write out all of her wishes inside.

Laura took a deep breath and watched as people cast keystones into the well. It could be a busy place at this time of year and finding the right time to take a picture would prove more difficult than she originally thought. Laura found a place in the grass and sat, waiting patiently.

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[SpringsSong]

Lana. Xyshari.

Once more, like clockwork, the women were present at the strange well. They seemed to be becoming a fixture to the place, but admittedly, maybe it was because they were even more intrigued by the strange tickets than the rest of the Evelonians because they were not originally from Evelon, and such things were unheard of where they came from.

"Are there any wishes in your heart today, my love?" Lana asked Xyshari, and Xyshari offered a distant sigh as she looked towards the well.

"The same wish that lingers in my heart every day, ra svet," Xyshari said as she pulled out a keystone to drop into the well. Lana pulled out a keystone and threw it in after hers.

"Then I shall hope that wish also comes true," Lana said.

(Raffle post!)