Le Masquerade
Aug. 11th, 2006 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 03:34 am (UTC)"Everyone looks beautiful," she murmurs in his ear. "And you look especially good."
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 03:39 am (UTC)he leans in and kisses her softly.
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 03:42 am (UTC)She returns his kiss, clinging just a little. In his formal dress, he is extremely distracting. She feels certain that she'll be seeking out a dark corner or two to take advantage of before long.
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 03:48 am (UTC)One hot finger slips through a carefully concealed hole and strokes her flesh.
He leans in again.
"Love you."
Then his hands are back where they should be and he is whirling her into the next move of the dance.
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 03:56 am (UTC)"Keep that up, and this will be a very short ball for us," she tells him quietly.
Her tone suggests that this wouldn't displease her all that much, even if she is curious as to who is under all of the lovely masks around them.
"You saw how long it took me to get dressed."
She had needed his help fastening everything, in fact. He probably knew how to get her out of this dress better than she did.
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 04:00 am (UTC)he smiles a bit reminiscently.
"I can remember these dances, and the fun nights they were."
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 04:13 am (UTC)She turns in his arms, as the dance dictates, and then back again.
"I can only imagine how much fun it must have been to live in a time where this sort of ball was commonplace."
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 04:17 am (UTC)"To be honest, it was only the rich who went to such, as the poor could not afford it, but they were still grand events."
he whirled with her across the floor, dancing and remembering.
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 04:23 am (UTC)She knows that he is incredibly wealthy now, but it couldn't have always been so.
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 04:24 am (UTC)He smiles.
"It was an age of decadence. I had to be careful. My secret can be all-too frgile."
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 04:31 am (UTC)"The modern world makes it easier for you to hide who and what you really are. Anyone who has never set foot in Milliways would never believe you were a million years old."
ANd how amazing was it that she had found him, from a different world, and a different time?
"I love you."
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 04:33 am (UTC)"And I love you, my beloved Molly."
he kisses her.
Re: Dance Floor
Date: 2006-08-13 04:37 am (UTC)She returns the kiss, and then returns to the dance, content.