The air felt really really good in Elysia. It wasn’t near as cold as Tescalua or weirdly warm as Vervitae. It was a little warmer than Silvaria at the moment, and holy hell of a lot cooler than when he was in Ardura. Lucien could get used to this place, honestly.

Initially, Lucien had come to the town on a package run. Since getting his horse legs, he had taken up being a messenger in his free time. As much as he liked being a musician, it didn’t really bring in a lot of money when no one knew who he was just yet, so this made a good substitute for now. Once that was done, though? With nothing else to do for the day, he figured he’d look around the area and maybe find a place to relax and play.

Walking slowly through one of the gardens, however, Lucien would be immediately distracted by a pretty girl picking flowers. The corner of his lips quirked up as he shifted to pull the guitar on his back around and started to strum a few melodic notes.

As the woman turned around, Lucien flashed a warm grin and kept playing alone. Golden eyes closed as he strummed a bit, but his mind’s eye opened readily reading the air. The aura in such a place was very natural, smooth, and easy to look at. The woman’s aura was easy to see in comparison.

As the woman approached, Lucien opened one eye and offered a silly grin. “I’ll wear a flower crown ‘f ya make one~ they’re lookin’ really pretty but not as pretty as you,” he joked-assured back offering a big cheesy grin thereafter. Fluidly right after, though, he moved up a key and strummed a little faster the beat picking up in the process. One hoof in back too started tapping. “Name’s Lucien, what’s yers?” he spoke only a little over the guitar now.

Alice. Lucien had actually known quite a few Alices in his home world. A few of their faces even drifted to the forefront of his mind. His features, however, only heightened as she assured him he was pretty good. “Oh yeh? It’s not so hard,” he answered. “Like six chords max.” With that, he went over the basic chord schemes very briefly before going back to the regular beat.

Lucien about jolted when another sound so similar to his own chords caught his ears. Pausing mid-strum, Lucien glanced around as the music continued going?? Squinting towards a field of flowers that were not too far off, he noticed how the flowers raised their blooms briefly released a similar sound= together making a small chorus of strumming. “Woah look ‘t that…” he pointed out.

A bright, wild smile flashed across Lucien’s features as Alice asked if he could play along. “Hell yeah I can,” he mused along with the tune before starting to strum to the flower’s tune. As if in response to him, a few more had started up as well. “Neato… kinda like they’re alive almost…” Lucien murmured more to himself than to Alice. Then again, plants were alive, but just uh, not like that usually? Hahahah.

Actually, if he didn’t know any better, he’d say they were Pokemon who were just hiding right under the surface, hahaha. Too bad his aura vision already defeated that thought. “Do ya know what they’re called??” he asked back at Alice even though she’d seemed pretty surprised by them too. For some reason the name 'echo flower' sounded really nice, but ya know if it was a gardenish area, someone had already named it.

Lucien grinned and nodded. “Sounds right,” he answered briefly. Something music or melodious made sense for such things. Did he want to get a closer look? “Hella.” He strummed a little faster now and swayed with his own beat. Side stepping a couple of times, he turned the entire thing into a four-legged dance right on over to them. The flowers could not mimic such steps, but Luci would have been in awe if they could heh.

And then a different thought came to Lucien. Shifting the guitar onto his back, he waited a moment to see if the flowers would keep going without his lead before looking forward again. “Yaw anna dance?” he asked of Alice a cheesy smile splitting his features.

“Aweeee…” Lucien frowned— then reached up and pulled at his face to accentuate that frown. “Well then I’ll just have to show you some moves or maybe even…” He reached down to her and in one fluid motion with his hands at her hips, lifted her up, and started to move in a circle. “I dunno what yer talkin’ ‘bout… you’re so smooth it’s like you’re feet don’t even touch the ground!” he laughed raising her up high again before setting her down slowly thereafter. Bending both front legs, he made a dramatic bow right after.

A laugh spilled from Lucien as Alice spoke. “Hella it was,” he answered warmly back. At the offer, he grinned a bit. “Hey, that sounds great…” Stretching a bit, he rolled his shoulders before folding one arm over the other and then repeating the motion on the other side.

“Ya know what else we could do though?” He asked with a slightly more devious look. “How ‘bout you hop on and we go for a run?” Twisting around, he patted the back of his horse half. Sure, there was a saddle bag, but it was far enough back as not to be obtrusive, and though the simple blanket didn’t make for the best saddle, but Lucien didn’t expect to run that fast at the end of the day— that and he actually listened to people unlike some of the actual horses he’d ever met heh.