#lumenfilia

[carefreemonk]

[ Champagne ] — Here they find themselves once more, standing side by side at a table laden with glass flutes and sparking, jewel colored liquids.

Tailtiu lifts a glass, offering it in cheers.

"To hopin' this stuff isn't quite as horrific as last time, eh?"

Tink. Cheers, indeed, Miss Tailtiu.

"Mmm... I have it on good authority that the elementals didn't hold back in their efforts to impress - and that includes the spirits."

He swishes the drink in his flute before giving pause, and glancing... where, exactly? Her hand, one suspects, where once he had remarked upon a certain ring. . .

"How went the bout to drag your dearly beloved to this wonderful fiasco of a ball? Not too fraught, I should hope."

[ladyleonster]

[ Indulge ] — Maybe its the feverish state of things -- that surrealism that comes with the... unbelievable-ness of this whole ordeal -- or maybe it's just some real messed up sort of deja vu.

But seeing Ethlyn in a dress, a ballroom surrounding her... Tailtiu feels as though invisible fingers reach to pluck at still-sore heartstrings. It's as though, for a moment, they are in a time before it all went wrong.

She's moving in an instant, taffeta skirts swishing around her legs. Hands are folding around Ethlyn's, lilac eyes wide with emotion and something too bittersweet to be joy.

And then a bloom of energy, starting the room back into focus as petals emerge from the vine around her throat.

"Oh..." Tailtiu drops the other's hand, fingers hesitating awkwardly in the air between them before moving to smooth her dress. "Sorry, I... dunno what came over me, heh..."

Tailtiu's hands reach for hers and she gives them a gentle squeeze. Ethlyn doesn't really know the fates of the others having died before any of them but she can see in each of their eyes that life has been far from easy. It's wonderful to see Tailtiu here in such a joyful environment. She hopes she'll get to see her smile by the end of the night.

"Hey, don't worry about it. It's a lot, isn't it? So many feelings that I'm not really sure which I even feel. But I'm glad you're here. And I'm glad you've got Azelle with you."