Brigade's Halloween Masquerade Ball (OPEN)

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Agatha raised an eyebrow quite curiously as soon as she noticed how Teo seemed to find it quite humorous in a way what she had said. It was still difficult sometimes to really know what it was like for her, it seemed like Teo experienced so many things so differently from her. It still intrigued her, and while she was helping Teo adjust to mannerisms here and now among other people, she couldn't help now and then storing in her memory how Teo seemed to think about things, or react to them. She laughed softly, coming out of her thoughts and listening to what Teo said to her about the magical presence. "Not exactly how I meant it, but now that you mention it... How does it feel? From what two places?" She asked, not being able to resist the curious nature that was her.

The giggle and noticing how much more Teo seemed to be enjoying herself than she had expected, really gave Agatha a good feeling, again something she hadn't felt in a while. She just still had this effect on Agatha, but not in a way Agatha had always avoided because she thought it was just a temporary diversion, but shouldn't let it distract her again. She liked spending time with her, learning from her, and teaching her as best she could. Laughing softly, Agatha had been ready to reply already, but fell quiet for a moment, looking in the other woman her eyes in front of her, after she had returned from the spin. "I usually only dance on my own, so I can guarantee you that you are not the only one trying harder for the other. So, I am as well for you." She said, and explained, just in case she didn't completely understand the way she put it.

She cocked her head to the side, some strands of hair falling to the side and in front of her eyes, looking in Adele's direction, then back again at Teo, slowly shaking her head. "Thank you for the offer, but if I did that behind her back, she would think I do not trust her. Now I am just keeping an eye on her, making sure." She said, even though she ended up slightly defending deciding to keep a closer eye on her friend anyway, but better safe than sorry. "I should tell her, I just... Don't think this is the right moment I'm afraid."

She knew it was sort of a 'dangerous' question to be asking, since she was sure that Teo had a lot of questions still, but she didn't mind anyway and was curious to the question that would follow first. When she realized that it was slightly about her, and the softer way she said it, it made her smile and think about it clearly. "That is a good question... I never really thought about the exact description of being a werewolf." She admitted softer, so that only Teo would really hear her. "And they were, still all, just not as openly usually as it once was, the lands of Arnul I mean. I basically ended up growing up there most of the time of my childhood. Training myself through experience what it was like with a full moon, to transform into wolf-form, the heightened emotions and random rage..." She told her, trying to explain what it was like for her, something she hadn't really told someone like this in a long time.

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Angelique watched as Draven had excused himself, snorting slightly annoyed to herself because his comment of smelling Vlad on her, something she absolutely didn't like someone saying to her. It felt like a disgusting insult, and if only she could let someone know that out loud, and not put herself in jeopardy. She sighed and gulped down the rest of her drink, letting out a continue to the sigh while she looked around, until grabbing a new glass that came along. "Of course, I'm sure she's dying of anticipation." She mumbled sarcastically to herself, rolling her eyes and looking away from Draven and Adele and around the room.

Having the experience of her shadow jumping and the shadows, she could feel that there was someone around trying to keep out of sight, it was kind of interesting, but she doubted that it was anything or anyone interesting. Probably just some assassin out on the watch, in case one of the Brigade members was in danger. She had gotten some news of something like that, so it would make sense. "How is it so hard for a girl to find someone fun and worth my time?" She mumbled to herself again, biting her lip in annoyance, but mostly getting bored.

Taking another good sip, with getting so bored liking the burning feeling even more, as her eyes fell upon Corvin and the woman he had with him. She narrowed her eyes curious, then silently made her way quickly to a spot where she could eavesdrop for a moment as much as possible on the two. She ended up leaning against a wall, as nonchalantly as possible, while keeping her glass close to her mouth, and her eyes subtly as possible focused on the two. She could not help raising an eyebrow, deciding that for now, she'd perhaps best not make a comment, even if a part of her wanted to. She even moreso wanted to see where this might go.

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Adele took a sip of the drink she had just grabbed and pulled a face, not as good as she'd imagined, or maybe her body didn't like the idea of alcohol tonight. She watched Draven again as he was talking to a girl that she onyl vaguely knew. When she saw him looking her way, she felt her heartbeat quicken and smiled. When she saw how he came closer, she smiled and looked back at the girl for a moment. She was wondering what she was thinking and most of all... What she wanted. But, only time would tell that, she thought and could only just assume. She wondered if her jealousy was getting in the way of her logic thinking, but there was something off about this girl, that she couldn't quite place. She had no idea what it was exactly, but at the same time, she realized that she didn't know about a lot lately. Not that this had to be a problem, but well, it might be. She liked being in control of things and knowing about what she was dealing with, it had kept her alive thusfar. At the same time, she should let it go for now, she wanted to enjoy tonight and at least be able to with him and her friends. It seemed that Agatha had fun and so should she. They both really deserved it. If only for tonight at the very least.

Her attention however, was soon enough drawn by Draven and she looked at him when he complimented her. She felt a blush appear on her face and smiled again, realizing that she didn't want to stop smiling. "Thank you, you look very handsome tonight as well." She replied, as she looked at him. She listened to what he said to her and looked him in his eyes for a moment. "I won't forget either." She said softly and felt her heart flutter a little when he touched her cheek. At the same time she couldn't help but be a little disappointed, with how quickly he pulled back and shook her head when he apologized. That really wasn't necsessary, she liked it when he touched her. "You don't have to apologize, Draven... Do you dance?"

OC: SORRY FOR THE WAIT!

[Draven]

(The Song being played)

Draven smiled when she told him he did not have to apologize. He has killed in cold blood for money. And had drank blood from someone until they took their last breath. And yet when he was around her, she made him feel like a young boy. He felt like he could do anything. Anything but dance that is. He was never good at it. He grew up a servant. And things like that where never aloud.

"Dance, um. Not really." Christopher Ryen could dance. He attended tons of dances at the Palace. Merry and him were known for grace. But Draven was a different story. "But for you I will try," He held out his hand for her to take, smiling sweetly. He hoped the ghost would help him.

Draven led Adele to the dance floor. Two men came on stage dressed in all black, They each wore long black cloaks and black masks. They held acoustic guitars in there laps as they sat on some chairs on stage. When they became to sing a haunted melody everyone seemed to take notice.

Draven stopped and faced Adele, letting the music control him. He slid a hand down her back to rest on her lower back. He took her other hand in his. Draven heard a small voice in his head say, You are welcome. Which he quickly ignored. He stepped closer to Adele guiding her to the music. He looked over to see, Agatha. He wondered if Agatha would recognize him. After their last encounter. Draven thought, he was the last person she would want to see. And her and Adele seemed close. He had a bad feeling about that.

[Corvin]

A certain feeling of eyes upon him got Corvin's attention. He looked around his shoulder momentarily and noticed a familiar face. It took Corvin a second to realize that it was Lady Marina's personal servant. He often saw her at the Queen's side when he visited Sylthanis. From the looks of her, something told Corvin that she could potentially be useful to him if need be. But he was rather curious about what appeared to be a veiled attempt to spy on him. Was Vlad keeping tabs on Corvin? Not like the King to need many spies.

Turning to Leann, Corvin waited until she was looking at him and sent a thought to her, via her telepathy, I think we have an eavesdropper, pet. Act natural.

"Now, let's see how much you have learned," Corvin said to her, "find me someone in here that looks like a viable customer." See if you can really find the eavesdropper. He thought to her, hoping she was getting all of this, and to keep the ruse going that nothing was wrong. It was one of the perks of having a Familiar with telepathy. It was so easy to relay messages to her without prying ears listening in. The problem was making sure Leann was actually inside her own noggin, mentally. Sometimes, the lights would be on, but nobody would be home. If the spell was holding, she heard and understood him.

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As Angelique took another casual sip from her glass, she let her eyes wander around innocently, even though her other senses, and her telepathy were focused on Corvin and his 'guest' who soon enough became apparent to her was a little beneath that in the man's eyes by the sound of what she picked up telepathically. It was quite interesting though, she did see Corvin now and then, but she always made sure that she just watched from a distance, but now with what she picked up, her curiously got to something of a boiling point.

As soon as she noticed what Corvin instructed Leann, Angelique finished her glass, smiling seductive at the first person to pass her by as she handed her the empty glass to put away, not feeling like doing that herself right now. She then calmly but silently made her way towards Corvin, grabbing herself a new drink on the way, until she was eventually standing there with him, as she smiled. "Do not waste your pet's energy on trying to find me, if I didn't want to be found, I could be jumping around for hours in the shadows." She said with a teasing grin, before she shrugged innocently. Her attention was obviously mostly just focused on Corvin, as she was almost sort of ignoring Leann at the moment, even though she kept her guard up for her anyway.

"I apologize for my eavesdropping, it's the wine, it always brings out my bad side, and I haven't had any blood since I arrived here." She explained innocently with a smile, taking another casual sip as she looked at him and cocked her head to the side curiously what he was thinking right now.

[Leeann Beth Arthur]

Leeann nodded to corvin in understanding. She would do as he ask. His thoughts were hers. But just before she could search out her feeling to find the eavesdropper, a women approached them. She did not look at her but that never bothered her. She kept quiet just watching and listening. She turned her head once to look at the people on the dance floor. They seemed to be so in love. She was in love once so long ago. She had forgotten what love felt like. She watched the couples smile and hold each other swaying to the music. It was fascinating to her. At that moment she wanted Corvin to dance with her. It was the spell talking, she hated his guts. But at that moment she enjoyed being with him.

She imaged herself in a large ball gown twirling on the dance floor. Corvin taking her by the hand and leading her onto the floor. Other women would be jealous of her beauty. A smile crossed her lips at this thought. She had lost focus on what the women and Corvin were saying.

[Teodora]

It was hard to remember that not everyone could feel the power in the air so keenly like she could. It was being smothered by magic but that did not mean it was not there, someone who could pose a threat to the guests of the party. Unfortunately for Agatha she could not pin point the location of such energies unless she were to cast some serious spells. Such a thing would most likely not go over well here at a party she assumed. Out of all the information she still lacked, she knew that mortals were weary of magic in comparison to her kind. They did not embrace it with open arms or see it as a gift in most cases. Having high magical aptitude in their world often made you an outcast in most circles.

"I couldn't pin point the magic if I tried, not without the help of some serious magic. Whatever it is goes out of it's way to keep it that way." she said. She knew it did not help put her new friend at ease. It was only a good thing that Agatha could not feel things the way she did or she would have a reason to be much more paranoid than she might already feel. "I did not mean to cause you alarm. I'm sure everything will be fine." she said in the most reassuring tone she could muster.

Laughing rather enthusiastically as she was spun out and brought back in, Teodora too returned the long gaze she was receiving. She was having a lot of fun in the moment and hoped that her careless use of words would not ruin it. The last thing she wanted to do was set the entire place on high alert but it was hard to detach yourself from old habits. As a Celestial she had a duty to protect life in all forms. After several moments she blinked and started to blush some as Agatha continued her gaze. "What?" she asked as she looked away.

It was a strange feeling to have someone look at her for so long. Most people let her pass unnoticed, she was often invisible on the streets. Here in the moment she seemed to be the focus and it was an odd turn of events. "I can respect your decision. Trust is an important thing to have and a difficult thing to rebuild. All you can do for your friend is be there, they have to learn this lesson on their own." she said with a half hearted smile. She hated the idea of letting people walk into a situation she could have helped avoid but that was how most people learned.

To her it all seemed magical as she too had a transformation. Yet her own was not painful and it was from her true form into one of her own choosing. Agatha did not choose this, that was the only fact that she was aware of before starting this conversation. A frown etched it's self into her angelic features as she searched Agatha's eyes for her feelings rather than using her empathy. "Random rage? That must be a terrible feeling to have to live with. Sounds much like the dragons of Baelfor." she added. From the way it sounded she was on her own from the beginning, no way for anyone to live their life.

"Were you.. on your own? What happened to your family..?" she asked. She knew the subject could be sensitive but she wanted to know now to save herself later embarrassment.

[Corvin]

Corvin turned when the eavesdropper revealed themselves. He had seen her before, and after a moment he realized that he knew her. She was the Queen Draculea’s personal maid, or at least that’s what Corvin assumed she was. The vampiress was ever present at the Queen’s side during Corvin’s visit to Sylthanis, but she never looked Corvin in the eye. In truth, he was beginning to think that she was absent minded most of the time. “The...Queen’s maid, am I not right?” Corvin asked with a raised eyebrow, “If you actually posed any interest to me, then I’d give you a fair warning about what I’ve done to stealthier spies.” Looking over to Leann, Corvin held out his hand to signal that she was alright to mingle. Suddenly, he watched as the familiar began dancing on her own. Rolling his eyes and shaking his head, he would explain later that his servant just could not hold her drink.

“That’s what you get,” he said with a sigh, “drinking on an empty stomach. Now tell me, don’t you wish the party would never end? I’m sure a woman of your...position seldom sees much of the outside world on their own. Being at the beck and call of a powerful Queen and under the ever-possible wrath of her husband? Just does not seem too right in my opinion. Especially in these times.” Corvin stepped towards the vampiress and pulled out a flask before pouring a blood red liquor into her glass. The concoction was a potion he made for himself, but the only thing it ever did was allow Corvin to be more alert to his surroundings. On a vampire, he doubted it would do much. However, the fact that a main ingredient of the potion was virgin human blood, he decided that she would benefit from a taste. Plus, he added a little Scotch for flavor.

“Tell me maid, what is your name? I know your status, just not your name.” Corvin asked.

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Angelique smiled at first, then still rolled her eyes slightly for a moment with how Corvin called her and seemed to recognize her, sounding pretty generalized in her opinion, making her roll her eyes with a slight smile on her face. "It is always something, either I am the maid, or I am just the forgotten sister of the king." She said, shaking her head a little, obviously both not too happy with being called so simplistic by him, but also wanting to see his reaction on that clarification of who she was. She might not really care about Vlad that much herself and see him as the one that had abandoned her more than once, that didn't mean that she couldn't try and use that burden to her advantage at least now and then. "Hm, only spies? And I just know how to keep myself under the everyone's attention. Do not blame me if up to now, you've not been completely in the loop of who I truly am." Angelique said, as she smiled and winkedi nnocently and teasingly at the same time, before she took another sip from her drink and looked for a second at the dance floor.

"Or is it just that you aren't too much of a critic when it comes to picking your pets?" Angelique asked, as she chuckled while looking in Leann's direction for a moment, before turning her eyes and face back to Corvin to look at him with a calm smile on her face, before raising an eyebrow as she listened to what he asked her next. She sighed for a moment as well and rolled her eyes, finishing her glass and putting it randomly away, while turning back to face Corvin again. "It would almost be funny, having all these people be in awe and pure fear for Vlad, while it doesn't take being some powerful being having returned from a sudden disappearing act, to have a wrath people should be frightened about." She said, looking at Corvin and making sure her eyes were narrowed with how serious she was of this and some of the bitterness coming up. "So, just to be clear, whatever you think of me, my loyalty is to the Queen, not to the King." She added casually, as she shrugged.

She did nod a little, letting him see that she was starting to become more and more aware, of what kind of times these already were, but she also had a feeling that there was a lot more going to follow. She smiled when he asked who she was, curious if he would have more of an idea when she told him her name, as she did a teasing bow for a second. "Angelique Sera Daniels, Lady in Waiting for the Queen." She introduced herself, as she grinned slightly and made sure that he could hear that Daniels only became part of her name eventually. In the meantime after she said so, she took a good look at her glass that he had filled with his flask, grinning curiously, before she took a good sip from it, her eyes closing slightly for a second, as the obvious blood in it calmed down her vampiric senses a little immediately, causing her to lick her lips subtly and look at Corvin, nodding pleasantly surprised by the drink.

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Agatha listened quite curiously to what Teo said about the magic that she sensed, wondering to begin with how that was, how it felt, it was something she would lie if she said it didn't interest her. She wasn't after power, or anything like that, all she was after was being prepared for the constant changes of this world, and the constant appearing new threats, which she just felt she had to be ready for. She tried nto to think about this too much, which worked, focusing on her, but it didn't disappear completely. Agatha's eyes narrowed a little, an automatic response and her eyes going around them trying to see if she could at least get an impression from someone where that magic was coming from that she was talking about, but there were multiple people around right now, that made her think it could be coming from them.

"Let's hope that whoever it is, keeps it that way, just let me know if it changes, or you can pinpoint it." She told her, looking back in Teo's eyes again to let her see the vigilance for a moment in her eyes, as she wasn't planning on letting anyone get hurt, even if it might just be a very slight chance. She laughed softly for a second when she heard what Teo said, causing her to shake her head. "No need to apologize, there is not much that does not cause me to get alarmed..." She admitted with a little smile, and realized it was slightly sad to admit it, but it was true.

Agatha chuckled softly, as she cocked her head to the side when she noticed the blush again on Teo's face and heard what she asked because of how she had maintained her gaze. "I don't know, there is just something about you that makes me really enjoy this dance with you. Or actually, there's just something overall about you." She answered her honestly, keeping her head to the side and a smile on her face, before looking down a little, a slight blush on her own face for a moment with that admission.

A slow nod came from her, having to agree to what Teo said about trust, and it was really something she didn't want to lose with Adele, however, she did feel like she should tell her soon about her run-in with Draven and what he had tried to do to Merry. "It's hard... I interfere in plenty of matters that the people involved don't know about, but with people I honestly care about... I know that I cannot just jump in as I usually do, but I also do not want to see her get hurt." She explained how she felt, before she shook her head and smiled a little, looking back at her. The company was definitely at least helping her a lot to keep putting the thoughts about it in the back of her head.

Agatha thought back to the way it had been back then, the feelings overwhelming her, the defense she had built up for herself, the time where she felt closer to animals than she had felt to actual people, something that still was the case to most people. She looked back from the random spot she looked thoughtfully at, to Teo. "I think it wsa part of it, I suppose that my situation didn't really help much. It took me a long time to really get a control of it, and even now... I still have my nights where it's hard."

The question about her family hit her a little hard, from her past, it was still one of the most painful things to think about, since she still couldn't make sense of it. It caused her to look away somewhat painfully for a moment and bite her lip. "They uh, I remember that my parents gave everything for me, only to one night leave and never show themselves again..."