It Was All a Setup...

With a celebratory banquet imminent, it was only a matter of time for all members of both tribes to appear. As hours passed and the sun started to set, you could hardly spot the ground outside of the predetermined walkways.

Rizz too wasn't surprised when he saw the rows of beastfolk laying out blankets on the ground. As a former guild master from one of the Big Five, technically, Rizz had stood before hundreds and thousands of people in the past, albeit through the lens of virtual reality.

What left a strange, churning feeling in him wasn't the crowd itself. It was seeing so many people gathered for his sake. They had all come to celebrate the arrival of the Green Saint! 

And that… was a new sensation for him. Not only physically, but mentally and socially.

"... Are you alright, Rizz?" 

He crossed his arms and let his head bounce up and down. "Yeah. I'm good. It's just a lot to take in all at once…"