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all_inclusive2015-12-30 08:56 pm
concierge) wrote in all_inclusive2015-12-30 08:56 pm
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Gathering: New Year's Eve Gala
The annual Nexus New Year's Eve gala began at 8 in the evening. Too grand to be contained by the lobby or dining hall, the gardens at the front of the hotel were employed, with long strings of white lights forming a twinkling canopy from the front doors all the way to the hedge maze. The weather was temperate and calm, and the night perfectly clear.
Drinks were served at various bars set up throughout the gardens and lobby, with champagne cocktails being the specialty of the night. Wheeling through the crowd was a bartender with golden cart providing warm drinks on the go: Tom and Jerrys, rum punch, negus, and Irish coffee.
Crisply-dressed wait staff wove through the collected guests with an abundance of hors d'oeuvres for all different tastes. The Bistro remained open with a limited selection of items for those who were wanting something more substantial.
Above the front doors was hung a large, gold-rimmed clock counting down the last hours, minutes, and seconds of the current year.
Drinks were served at various bars set up throughout the gardens and lobby, with champagne cocktails being the specialty of the night. Wheeling through the crowd was a bartender with golden cart providing warm drinks on the go: Tom and Jerrys, rum punch, negus, and Irish coffee.
Crisply-dressed wait staff wove through the collected guests with an abundance of hors d'oeuvres for all different tastes. The Bistro remained open with a limited selection of items for those who were wanting something more substantial.
Above the front doors was hung a large, gold-rimmed clock counting down the last hours, minutes, and seconds of the current year.
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Cinderella nods. "Oh yes. It took me quite a while but there's something...rewarding about having something made by your own hand, I think. It's like wearing your accomplishments quite literally on your sleeves. I like needlework. It's tedious, yes, but the results are so pretty."
Here in the hotel, she mostly earns her keep by cleaning but she wonders if there's something to be done in mending instead. Cinderella thinks that could be a job that might be enjoyable and profitable.
"Do you sew, at all?"
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"Only a little," Annie answered. "My mother sewed, but I..." She cleared her throat and smiled. "It didn't really turn out that way for me. But I know a man who makes some of the most incredible clothes. You should meet him, he showed up here not too long ago. His name is Cinna."
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"Oh, I would adore that," Cinderella says. Her entire face lights up at the mere prospect of being able to learn from someone potentially more talented than she is.
"Would he even be interested in talking to me about such a thing?"
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"I don't really know him very well, but he seems very nice. He designed for a friend of mine, back home. I don't see why he wouldn't want to talk to you about it," Annie replied with a small smile. It was true: She knew Cinna mostly by reputation. But he'd been an important friend to Katniss, and that alone said all she needed to know.
"Do you ever design for anyone else?"
Annie has never been much for fancy dresses -- They remind her far to acutely of incidents best left forgotten -- but with such a canny eye and attention to detail, she could see how lots of people would be interested in buying this girl's work. Effie alone could keep her busy for months.
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"No, I haven't before. It never occurred to me to make a gown for anyone but myself," Cinderella admits. Still, it's something she could do in her spare time to help earn her keep in the Nexus, she thinks, and that's something that will benefit everyone. She likes to know that she isn't taking charity and she's working for what she earns.
"I could, though. If someone wanted something I made, I could make them something."