Le Masquerade
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tragic_mask[ooc: please go first to the Through the Door thread. Thanks.]
ETA: As of this thread, all new threads in the masquerade are now after midnight [the links below are now re-linked to after-midnight sub-threads]. React at your leisure.
The ballroom itself is a burst of dazzling light. Hanging from the vaulted ceiling are two gold-wrought chandeliers, both of which glow brightly over the occasion, and tall lanterns shine throughout the room.
The grand staircase descends with a flourish and opens onto the main ballroom. A balcony, which providing a clear view of the goings-on below, runs all the way around the edge of the room. It can be reached via any of the four spiral staircases in each corner of the ballroom.
Below, the wooden dance floor flickers gently in the light from above, and musicians in the side room play soft, classical music. Meg Giry, the dance mistress for tonight, is on the floor with a microphone in hand.
A low, wooden bar in the corner provides hors d’oeuvres and drinks to revelers; small tables for two sprinkle the area.
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Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 08:48 pm (UTC)The eyes, windows to the soul, close tightly; then regard him with complete solemnity.
"And how does one fly, Sir, when she has had her wings broken?"
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 08:56 pm (UTC)Finally he replied, "...Need new wings then, I suppose? Or something else to help fly?"
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 08:58 pm (UTC)Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 09:03 pm (UTC)"Only if they want to. Though, the skies would be crowded if everybody could." A trace of a smirk behind the dragon mask briefly.
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 09:07 pm (UTC)"Some people drown others instead. And what of you, Lord?" The sly smile returns, brown eyes sparkling.
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 09:25 pm (UTC)"Me?" Think of what he say to such.
"Well, some people save others, too. What of them?"
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 09:28 pm (UTC)Death would be a kindness, the morbid teenage part of her brain thinks.
Looks downwards. "Forgive me my strange thoughts." Supposed to play the lady, but just a girl. Only a girl. And how can a girl hold on to things she doesn't want to lose?
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 09:57 pm (UTC)He added softly, "Not that strange. It's a strange night. Thoughts go along with it."
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 09:59 pm (UTC)Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 10:03 pm (UTC)"And who isn't around here?" He gave a small laugh, and whirled around on one foot.
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 10:05 pm (UTC)Grey eyes. So close to silver. Silver eyes haunt her every step.
"Only fools have cause to dance as the sun burns down the sky."
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 10:12 pm (UTC)Off the prose, he added, "That why you mentioned the sun? Got burned once? Maybe drowning in cool depths would be better."
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 10:17 pm (UTC)Prose, pain, whirling in her brain. Kaye might be excused, for her insanity, but it's part of her nature.
Fey breeds fey. They all return to faerie in the end.
"Maybe I just need someone to pull me up."
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 10:25 pm (UTC)"Need new wings as I said. Or someone else with wings."
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 10:32 pm (UTC)Hide the pain, win the day.
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 10:39 pm (UTC)"Not good to dwell on depressing topics. Too nice a night," he said instead.
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 10:42 pm (UTC)Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 10:48 pm (UTC)Step towards her, and carelessly suggested, "Having fun? It's a dance and a party after all."
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-12 11:54 pm (UTC)Kaye could smell the polish, thick in the air and the shine of new things. Regardless of her glamour her pixie senses picked them out of the room to be examined.
There's something familiar about him too, but she lets it lie. Sometimes a falsehood is better.
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-13 12:02 am (UTC)"Very well," he stepped, offering his hands up to take hers for a proper ballroom dance.
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-13 12:07 am (UTC)She wishes she could forget everything. But Lethe had forsaken her and betrayed her. She couldn't even blame the Nymph. Who could help being lost, in silver eyes and faerie magic.
"You are not him." It is not really a question, she follows the steps anyway. To her own dance. Just like fighting, just like love; all her steps are wrong and yet right.
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-13 12:27 am (UTC)He sniffed as they spun around, him leading her carefully, "Never claimed I was. Isn't that the point? To forget one's troubles?" Echoing her thoughts out loud perhaps?
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-13 12:31 am (UTC)The spot where Roiben kissed her had never faded; no matter how much she scratched at it. A phantom to rival Lady Macbeth's blood.
"Forgetting is harder than it sounds."
Re: Balcony
Date: 2006-08-14 06:19 pm (UTC)And he continued dancing.