I take a moment and then sigh before looking over and looking for Maria. It would be nice to have a chance to truly cut loose and push myself in a manner where I don’t have to worry about pacing myself or going easy on other people.

“Maria!” I shout over at her, assuming she’ll be able to hear me. I still go about walking directly at her to further illustrate my intent. “Come help me take my harness off, I’m going to be pushing myself a bit.”

“Ah yeah!” the Cinderace says, pumping their hands together. “Let’s get this party started.”

Maria shrugs and walks over to me. Probably some of the onlookers might be wondering if she’s joining as well, but the other racers are mostly just watching her with casual interest and more trying to prime themselves up or stretch a bit more.

“Do you need me to grab your flower as well?” she asks.

“No, that should be fine where it is. It’s small enough and light enough to not hinder me in any way. The harness might restrict me a bit, though.”

“Okay, good luck,” she says as she heads back to the other two with my harness. For me, though, the cold is a bit tough to deal with right away. I’m not even sure how they’ve gotten used to the weather and might just be me seeming to live a very pampered life. Once the race starts I’ll be fine, but until then. To help with this I flare up some fires around my body, making sure to keep all of the heat away from the flower. I notice that the Cinderace has also done the same with their arms in response.

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((OOC: I'll admit I screwed up the design slightly for the lycanroc, but at the time I was only using a single reference that was from the front and didn't look enough to the side and just went it with a horn rather than kind of a part of the mane