Dreadlords Once Dark and Ancient Times

[Constance Krixus]

Historic Square

A delighted skip was in a young woman's step as she happily wandered through the square excitedly looking at all the beautiful costumes around her. She herself wore an intricate black and purple dress that made to have light bounce off the vestments giving her an otherworldly feel. A fine feathered black mask, imitating a raven sat on the upper half of her face.

In one hand was a delicious warm pastry that a kind passerby had given to her which she had eagerly accepted. This entire festival was incredible. She had imagined these wonderful things when she asked her father to come live with her cousin. While it had been difficult to convince him to let her go out, she had been given more and more freedom, and now was her chance to experience it all

A lovely voice escaped her lips as she joined in with a song that some children nearby were singing as she continued to walk through the crowd.

 

[Vittoria Larrainth]

Vittoria wandered to the vendor that was selling the honey cakes surrounded by spiced apples, exchanging treats for coin and holding out one dessert bowl to King. She was smiling, as she found so easily to do in his presence. "I was not trying to guilt you earlier, you know that? I am perfectly capable of being on my own if you wish to see someone else and spend the eve with them." Her eyes were like the sea on those green mornings, knowing and slowly shifting, but in this light, she gazed at her friend and left him time and space to tell her of this mystery person he so clearly had a moment with. But King never gave her enough detail to figure out who it was.

She was not the type to pester him with questions, but that did not stop her friend from asking her questions about what was going on between herself and the Basmarc boy.

If he indeed had attended this night of celebration, she wondered what he would say about her dress.

"Besides, if I truly get bored and I cannot find you, then I can at least find and have my fun watching Black get Augur drunk." A rite of passage that Vittoria would not dare to let touch her lips. Any form of altering her ability to have total control of herself was one she did not want to dance with. The magnitude of power she had would prove devastating, and Vittoria need not have that blemish her record.

 

[Rhidian]

Rhidian felt something akin to focusing solely on his friend rather than dwell in his own dark thoughts. He could not fathom if happiness could return to his life, but he knew he had every power to ensure that Zinnia had a fantastic night.

If she wanted a dashing stranger to dance with, he was going to make that happen as best as he could.

"I was hoping some of the Guard and Knights were going to be present but maybe I am awful at recognising people under a mask." But he had known it was Zinnia seconds before approaching her. There were certain people he felt as if he would know, the friends he had made in the time he needed them, but navigating anything new now was proving difficult.

He needed to get his life in order.

Guiding his well dressed friend through the crowds, Rhidian lowered his voice. "I miss Vel Anir sometimes but I know if I had stayed, I would have turned into something... I would not be proud of." But being in Vel Castere still had not changed much for him, and for that, disappointment weighed on his shoulders.

 

[Skyler]

"Femi, that's grand!"

"Are you blushing?"

"What, no," Sky looked away from her brother's piercing gaze. The one that could see right through her.

"Who is he?"

Sky rolled her eyes and finally looked back up at him. "I met him on my last post, just outside of Vel Castere."

"And?" Femi waggled his dark brows.

Sky looked around. "I was hoping he'd be here tonight, actually." But it was hard to see who was here with all these masks and crowds. They probably should've planned things better.

"Okay so what? He's in the guard with you?"

"Uh, kinda."

"Sky...come on."

And in that moment, Sky was thankful to accidently nudge into Constance Krixus. Because she knew how Femi felt about Dreadlords. "Oh, I'm so sorry." Sky immediately apologized as Femi broke off in search of their other brother.

"You okay?" Taking a step back, Sky noticed the young woman's dress. "That dress is super cool."

 

[Fabien 'King' D'Amour]

"I was not trying to guilt you earlier, you know that? I am perfectly capable of being on my own if you wish to see someone else and spend the eve with them."

"Of course not. Guilting someone is more my speed, I think."
King smiled, winked, and bumped into Vittoria as they walked before happily taking a bite of his dessert.

"In any case, I doubt I will bump into anyone I'd rather spend time with than you. So desperately few are worth my time. Perhaps Eva, if she finds the time to make it out, but she'll be just as inclined to talk your ear off as mine," he told Vittoria, though she'd know him well enough to know that he was beating around the bush. "She seems to think you're a bad influence, but she knows that I treasure you, too. I imagine she'd be inclined to put you in one of Proctor Urahil's classes."

The talk of watching Cormund and Oryyn pulled the conversation in a different direction still.
"I think that shall have to be both our backup plans. Perhaps we can find a way to have both wind up in a canal by night's end."

He snickered at the thought.

 

[Zinnia]

Rhidian having shipped himself off to Vel Castere to join the Anirian Knights had never been something Zinnia imagined she'd find on her Bingo card, but she was happy that her friend had seemed to have found some sense of purpose. The Dreadlords had their pride and their power, but the Guard and the Knights had something that she was admittedly rather envious of: camaraderie.

"You are missed around here, you know. If by n-no one else, then by me," she assured Rhidian, letting him pull her along. "But if you really needed to get out, then I'd never be one to stop you. I feel the same way sometimes, y-you know."

 

[Vittoria Larrainth]

She seems to think you're a bad influence

An elegant smile pulled at her lips, but soon returned to a small smirk of amusement. As if a smile could not last long on Vittoria's expression. "Oh, I know. She told me as much in multiple meetings." But Vittoria always gave the Proctor an innocent expression.

After all, it had been King that had sparked the start of this friendship. Equals, they had been equals as children, and it was King that bested her at the sword. He taught her, made her his strongest competition.

"And as for etiquette lessons, I am doing very well..." Of course, she would not be on the level as Perrine Urahil, but that woman had been brought up in such a way where Vittoria had not. "Your sister surely is aware you keep me in line, no?" For King was proper and articulate. Well mannered and sophisticated. There was so much he had imparted onto Vittoria, helped her be more sensible when surrounded by others.

 

[Constance Krixus]

And in that moment, Sky was thankful to accidently nudge into @Constance Krixus. Because she knew how Femi felt about Dreadlords. "Oh, I'm so sorry." Sky immediately apologized as Femi broke off in search of their other brother.

"You okay?" Taking a step back, Sky noticed the young woman's dress. "That dress is super cool."

Lost in her own little world, Constance wasn't prepared when a body bumped into her. Her small frame was knocked harder than one might expect. She was already mentally scolding herself for not paying attention to her surroundings.

A small piece of the pastry she had been eating stuck in her throat for the slightest of moments having momentarily forgotten about it. Her body forcefully choked it down before sending her into a coughing fit. After several seconds of Constance just awkwardly standing there and coughing, she finally got herself under control.

"Excuse me, I should have been paying attention more, as well...And thank you!"

She smiled at the last compliment as she looked proudly down at the dress that she was wearing. She had worried if it would be too much, but she had been told to dress up. Connie took a moment to look over Skyler and her smile only grew.

"I love your outfit as well. Oh, the sandals!"

Skyler

 

[Rhidian]

If by n-no one else, then by me

He threw his friend an utterly grateful look. It had been so long since he allowed such a vulnerability be seen by him, when so often he his behind his smile. It had been broken too, and only until he had changed scenery to Vel Castere that it had begun to mend, no more of his suffering memories clouding him.

"You are truly a great friend to have, Zin." And if Silas had not played with so many hearts, Rhidian wondered if he would have gone for someone so sweet, so supportive... "And if no one else will dance with you tonight, then I volunteer myself to help showcase the beauty of that dress on the dance floor... only I am no great dancer. You should guard your toes." He grinned.