May I Have This Dance?

Posted Aug 26, 2022, 12:07:30 PM UTC

Prompt #1 - The Guests

Your character has received a gilded invitation to the event! You are welcome and esteemed– guards and staff alike part before you and the other guests are dying to meet you. Will you use this opportunity to negotiate with your allies and enemies among the elite? Will you savor every single treat the palace has to offer? Or will you simply dance the night away? 

Brier has spent a lot of time in palaces, but never as a guest. She can't imagine that refusing an invitation like this is a thing that's done. On the other hand, dressing up in finery and milling around with a lot of the most elite people in the city seems like her worst nightmare. What if they ask about her family? What if they ask about something in her childhood? What if they notice her accent? She's so sure that somebody's going to tell her that they made a mistake and that she should leave because she doesn't belong, Until a regal looking gentleman, with pale tips on his dark hair that the candlight plays off of, asks if she would like to dance.  

Even though the dance only lasts a few minutes, Brier is smiling when her new friend takes his leave, no longer shrinking to try to disappear.  

Maybe this won't be so terrible after all. 

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