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Gathering: Masquerade Ball
A large sign placed prominently in the Nexus lobby reads:
The Nexus Hotel
proudly presents the
MARDI GRAS MASQUERADE BALL
Event Location
Nexus Dining Hall
8 PM - 2 AM
Masquerade dress recommended, but not required for all guests
The Dining Hall's central table and chairs had been removed to create a dance floor wide enough to accommodate fanciful masquerade costumes. On one end had been placed a long bar providing free drinks, and on the other a small chamber orchestra providing the music for dancing. The entire room was bedecked in gold bunting and twinkling candlelight, and masks were available for those guests who hadn't brought their own.
proudly presents the
MARDI GRAS MASQUERADE BALL
Event Location
Nexus Dining Hall
8 PM - 2 AM
Masquerade dress recommended, but not required for all guests
The Dining Hall's central table and chairs had been removed to create a dance floor wide enough to accommodate fanciful masquerade costumes. On one end had been placed a long bar providing free drinks, and on the other a small chamber orchestra providing the music for dancing. The entire room was bedecked in gold bunting and twinkling candlelight, and masks were available for those guests who hadn't brought their own.
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"Though I think I've found my particular in vice in coffee."
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Athos had seen the stuff. He hadn't been sure what to think of it. The smell alone had been immensely off-putting and though a taste of it had quelled his head, it had been brief. "I find that it's a suitable cure for the night previously," he admits, though he prefers more wine, if it comes down to that. "Are you having fun?"
He asks, in the way that a man who is unsure of fun works.
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He gave Athos sidelong smile, "And you?" Did Athos know how to have fun anymore?
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Athos has not been in a position to enjoy and know of fun for a long time and he cants his head with consideration. "It's a difficult habit to break, guarding and protecting," Athos admits, knowing that he's doing it even now, keeping an eye on d'Artagnan and Porthos because they both are his duties and responsibilities and they have looked after him much in the past.
"How do they treat their guests here?" he wonders.
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It's still far better than the ones that others have endured. "Would you care for another drink? I'm running low," he says, of his own.
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"So long as you don't expect me to keep up with you, then I think I will," he agreed.
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There are none who truly can keep up with him and while he knows that to be a point of shame, and not pride, he does not say anything in that regard. Instead, he merely moves them along to where a waiter is passing out product, taking two for himself and pouring them into one so he doesn't look awful.
"You must be grateful to see Porthos here," he notes. "More company for you when I'm not around for reasons."
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Then, perhaps, it was best that d'Artagnan drank with him for that very reason. At least Athos would have someone close if he crossed a threshold. D'Artagnan, himself, only took one glass.
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He sips at his glass and studies d'Artagnan. "Unless you're avoiding something?"
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The wound was still a fresh in his heart and it would be some time before d'Artagnan could cope with her lost love.
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"Perhaps she was right. It was a fantasy."
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He wants to know if it's normal to still love someone, when they have all but ruined your heart.
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"I wish I could stop it."
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Ah, there was that dull ache again.
"Had Constance not saved me, I'd have died before any of this began."
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"Even before then. I think I'd bruised a rib or something equally unpleasant."
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