The concept of Halloween was absolutely thrilling! For just one night anyone could dress up as anything they wanted to be. This was a particular holiday that Raven deemed as one of the best holidays to celebrate throughout the year. Christmas was close to beating Halloween, just a little bit. It had taken quite some time for the two of them to come up with their costume. One night they were watching Disney's Robin Hood and her mate seemed enthralled with the wily fox. So, when they were at the temporary Halloween store in the East, and she saw the costume for Robin Rood sitting on the shelves, she knew it was the one. Her mate was quite eager to dress up, and apparently the costume would not do. He just had to have the bow and arrows, because everything had to look correct. The lupine knew her deviant companion couldn't have weapons, for obvious reasons, but Tetradore saved the day when he agreed to make those quivers be harmless. Although knowing Tobias, he could possibly turn those blunt quivers into weapons, if he was in the right mindset. Which could possibly be any minute with the way he was going on and on about his boots. She was willing to let him walk barefoot, but his constant need to be correct was...aggravating. Now that he seemed satisfied and pleased with how he looked she turned all that attention she previously had for him, to herself. Sitting at the dresser she looked in the mirror, slowly twisting and turning her nimble fingers through her hair, forming a tight braid around her head, attempting to perfect that waterfall braid.

Raven never liked having attention on herself. It wasn't just, because she was a predator. She knew what it was like to have a large amount of attention on herself, it never turned out well. Feeling his eyes not leaving her she turned around wondering what Tobias needed from her. His crooked grin was answered with a small shy smile of her own. The boy hardly described himself to be sexy. In fact that particular word wasn't one that either of them used that much, if at all. Her grin only widened as she nodded slowly in agreement. Gently she responded, although she stumbled saying the word 'sexy,' because it was such a silly word that she hadn't said before.

"I think you look s-sexy too."

Was that the correct word to use? To describe her mate in a slick costume as Robin Hood? Was that what you called a thief? Well, he was always a thief even before he put on that costume. Raven always found him to be quite attractive. As he moved closer to her she turned her attention back the mirror. The very minimal eye make-up she placed upon herself seemed to hold up fairly well. With the braid in her hair complete she was ready for the final piece, placing the small golden circlet atop her head. Raven could feel his long, fingers gently press along her back to grab her attention. With a small smile she looked up, watching as his fingers moved from her fabric and then up to the circlet to trace the slim little decorative lines. Hearing his compliment a soft shade of pink appeared on her cheeks. Looking to the ground she grabbed her engagement ring and began to twirl it around sheepishly. Muttering she glanced up at him.

"Oh, well thank you...I tried."
Standing up she took another look in the mirror. Wearing dresses weren't one of her things. Oh, how she missed having a sweater or a large jacket to cover her figure. Looking over at her mate she nodded and gestured towards the door for them to exit. Hopefully the staff was nearly done with the Halloween decorations. When she got to the stairs she lifted a little bit of her emerald dress, grabbing one of the handrails she glided after her mate. It was that loud snicker from Jackal that caught her attention. Blue-grey eyes narrowed as she focused on that chair he happened to be standing next to, and it just so happened that the chair moved sharply against his leg, knocking him over. Was it a bit too rough? Yes, and yet she made it clear to him â€" he was not going to laugh at her mate. The boy may appear so self-confident, and yet walking in any sort of footwear, was a special accomplishment, that was no laughing matter. As Jackal picked himself off the floor she gave him a wordless warning as she stopped at the bottom of the stairs. Letting the dress go she walked over towards her Alpha and the little Fae. Hearing Tobias announce his costume, she gave him a quick nod, confirming he was correct. His comment about being 'stab-happy' caused her to sigh ever so softly, giving her Alpha and helpless shrug. It wasn't surprising to hear that Tobias would declare his species as the best. With a Cheshire grin her reply holding a teasing note.

"Is that so? Well, I think panthers are the best."

Giving Tetradore a wink, she slid her arm around his waist, in a half-hug. Not afraid at all to make her mate regret his choice of words. Unwrapping her arm from him she took a step forward towards Maeve, crouching down to get at her eye level.

"Maeve, you look absolutely wonderful. I am sure everyone will enjoy your costume."

It would be awhile until they would be able to go trick or treating. She promised Serafina that right after she and Tobias went out and about for candy, she would come promptly to her house to do...well...whatever sort of witchy thing she wanted to do. It was clear that the Ark still needed a bit of work done before they opened. And lucky for her she had some extra helpers.

"When the sun is just about to set, that's when you can get candy. I even have a special bag for you to use, because a good thief needs to have a very good bag. But, while we wait, I will give you and Maeve some Halloween cookies, if you can do me a favor."

Looking over at Maeve she gestured towards those orange little pumpkins sitting perfectly in a row on the back counter.

"Maeve, there are some little pumpkins that I have arranged right there along the counters. Do you think you could put one pumpkin in the center of each one?"

Moving over towards the table where the box of lightbulbs were she handed the box towards her mate, giving him clear instructions.

"Tobias, here is a box of orange lightbulbs. We need these in all these lamps. You need to take out the old ones and put them in this box and replace with these orange ones. For every lightbulb you break, that is the amount of cookies I do not give you."

Turning around with her hand on her waist she looked over at the little Hispanic man. Her tone was quite gentle as she prodded the man to help them out.

"And Jackal, if you make this place look like thousands of spiders came through here, you can have some cookies too."

With a satisfied grin she watched as the man grabbed those bags and bags of cobwebs and got busy to work. Looking over at Tetra she shrugged her shoulders and gave him quite a very small task.

"Tetra, if you hand me that box of bats on the table, I'll give you a cookie"

She was Maid Marion, a noblewoman, and she was not going to do all these tasks by herself. See, with Halloween you can be anyone you want!

Raven Clocksworth.