1 The Nights Dance Festival

The city was overrun with people today, it was a pickpockets dream. So many people all crowded together they were bound to overlook a simple guy like him. Daymeon slowly made his way into the crowd from the alleyway he was lurking in, quickly making himself one with the crowd as he went about his everyday routine. His thoughts on how good he was going to make out this week. It was the start of the Nights Dance Festival after all. A celebration that lasted all week and was meant to represent the welcoming of the stars again after years of oppression from the neighboring star system, who actually blacked out their skies and the stars with it. All of Tallava celebrates this day, and it always brought a crowd to the bigger cities of this island desolated planet. With only one large enough landmass that could even be considered a continent, Ritundi was the largest of all the cities on Tallava and the only one on the mainland.

Emilya pulled on her friends arm as they ran towards the Drakean Manor. They were getting squished in the crowd as they were trying to get to the front gates of the Manor, this is where the Prince of Tallava would soon announce the festivities and Emilya wanted to be in the front row. She had idolized Prince Nykrum since she was a little girl and this would be the first time she got to see him in person. "Sasha! Hurry up! You're going to miss the fun if you don't hurry!" Emilya shouted behind her, but had let her friends arm slip from her grip as she excitedly weaved through the crowd, bumping into a few people and quickly saying 'Excuse me' as she finally made her way to the gates and pressed herself against the bars. She didn't have much choice as the crowd quickly filled in the gap she made pushing and shoving each other till they were nearly piled on-top of eachother.

Daymeon was easily making off well, he scored ten necklaces, eight pieces of jewelry, six purses, and five cell links; two being ear/headpieces, while the other three where bracelets. On Tallava only those of high classes and those that work for their military Star fleet were allowed to have their cell links implanted into either their eye or their wrist. It depended on the person's preference as the screen would appear on either the wrist or in front of the viewers face. Many preferred the eye, but there were some that had the implant in their wrist.

Daymeon was about to head back when a young woman ran right into him, making him stumble and drop most of his loot. He quickly shot down to pick up his things while he looked up to shout at her, "Hey!...." He heard her say 'excuse me' but she was already dodging and weaving into the crowd. As a thief he had to admire the girls skills, if she was actually trying she could have scored quite a few things from this seemingly innocent act, to bad it was just that, an innocent act. He watched the women's long dark hair and small lean figure disappear into the crowd and vanish. He sighed and went to go pick back up his stuff.

"Emilya wait for me!" A tall woman with brown hair yelled out stopping by Daymeons side and bent over panting. "I swear that girl will run straight into the volcanoes just to see the lava. I am so glad her parents don't let her near the star-ships, she would have run away years ago." She looked over at Daymeon, having caught herself mumbling alone and sighed. She bent over to help him pick up the things Emilya had made him drop, handing him a cell link as she tried to catch her breath. "Sorry about her. She hasn't been to the mainland and is very excited about seeing Prince Nykrum." She looked down at the other things laying around the ground that Daymeon quickly shoved away into some of his pockets or the purses he had. She gave him a wary look as he took the link from her. "That seems to be…"

"Thank you for the help." Daymeon had quickly stored the link she had handed him and quickly dashed off noticing her suspicion. He had quickly made his way deeper into the crowd when the woman that he was just with screamed out "THIEF!" That was enough to cause a commotion as police pushed their way to the source of the noise. With that Daymeon ran and weaved through the crowd. Unlike the girl he saw earlier he was easily able to bob and weave without running into or hitting people. He tried to make his way back to the alleys he had familiarized himself with, but as he got close to the edge of the crowds he saw more police approaching. Quickly making him backtrack into the crowd as he ran, looking for a better escape opportunity. He found himself getting pushed towards the Drakean Manor. The Nights Dance Festival was soon to be announced starting off the planets celebrations. After seeing no better way around without being caught he decided to become one with the crowd, and let them escort him towards the Manor.