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[cozen]

WHO: Alexandrie, Bastien, Byerly, and their captive audience
WHAT: Mandatory etiquette and dance lessons
WHEN: Justinian 15, 9:45
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: See the OOC post and IC announcement for more information! If you didn't sign up, you can still participate in Parts A and D, and just handwave the other two, without needing to sign up or get an assignment. If you want to do B and C, you can find your own dance partner/seating group OOC, or you can sign up now and we'll dole out new assignments if we get enough latecomers to do so. If you signed up and are missing from the lists when you shouldn't be, I'm sorry and please tell me!

disclaimer: event less fancy than pictured

Seating Assignments
— Table One: Gwenaëlle, Iorveth, Matthias, Athessa
— Table Two: Flint, Ilias, Darras, Med Seller, Yngvi
— Table Three: Julius, Thranduil, Anders, Brienne
— Table Four: Benedict, Colin, Valentine, Six, Derrica
— Table Five: Teren, Salvio, Bartimaeus, Osana
— Table Six: Freddie, Petrana, Kain, Merrill, Silver
— Table Seven: Yseult, Cosima, Steve, Inessa
— Table Eight: Sidony, Fifi, Nell, Fingon
— Table Nine: Thor, Nathaniel H., Solas, Skadi

Dance Partners
— Cosima & Nathaniel H.
— Athessa & Anders
— Teren & Flint
— Freddie & Bartimaeus
— Yseult & Darras
— Nell & Julius
— Merrill & Colin
— Skadi & Benedict
— Gwenaëlle & Solas
— Petrana & Salvio
— Osana & the Medicine Seller
— Sidony & Matthias
— Six & Thranduil
— Brienne & Valentine
— Fifi & Steve
— Thor & Fingon
— Ilias & Iorveth

Comments

[exequy]

His face darkens as fast as a candle blown out. The dance nearly comes to a halt, evidenced by the first stutter of his feet while he wobbles on the verge of making a scene.

It isn’t the commentary—accusation—about their birth order. Not entirely. A month ago that would have been irritating the way everything else is irritating and no more. But since then they’ve nearly killed one another in the garden, and all of that, and they aren’t a pair. Kostos hardly knows him. Now he doesn’t want to.

None of that is Miss Poppell’s business.

And he doesn’t make a scene. He swerves back in time to smile, in a tightlipped and humorless way. He’s never been good at not drawing people a helpful road map to his buttons. For example:

“Why? Because he’s taller?” By the worst two inches in all of Thedas. But he does look a little more pleased about the second option. “Or is it the degeneracy?”

[heirring]

See, give her a few turns about the floor and she's perfectly capable of finding her footing. To say that she brightens in the face of his grim smile wouldn't be completely accurate, but--

Well.

She smiles in return. "Is he taller? I don't know that I've ever seen you both stand next to one another to compare."