Event Finished Shut up and dance with me! (OPEN)

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A knight was standing in the corner of the ballroom. On any normal day, it would be considered a strange sight, but on the night of costumes and masks? No such thing. He was adorned in brilliant golden armor and his face was half-covered with a simple mask, and nobody could say he looked anything but grand.

He surveyed the crowd, taking a sip out of the glass of punch he held in his hand. A loose smile was on his face, as it all reminded him of his home. But that was only a distant memory.

His eyes were looking for someone to dance with, and he waited for the opportunity to approach someone.
 
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She was doing a very poor job of hiding who she was. The mask was small, purple, and rather plain. She'd had the choice of one with a feather, but she'd opted to go without.

Even so, anyone who had met her before would know just who she was. Her hair was still tucked up in it's usual style, and her expression was still the same serious expression that seemed stuck permanently on her face.

She hadn't wanted to come. She'd been all but forced into it, and while she'd found a nice black dress she enjoyed (cut just above the knees and without much in the way or ornamentation), the idea of dancing - of being at the ball proper - was one she hadn't found very comfortable.

So she lingered on the edge of the dance floor, watching people spin. In some cases it was easy to recognize them, even if she didn't know their names. In others... well, in others it might as well be a total mystery.

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The knight noticed a lovely girl by herself. Her identity wasn't well hidden, but he did not recognize her, so the knight decided to approach.

He grabbed another glass of punch and then made his way over to her.

"Hello," he greeted her in his usual curious accent. "Are you alone tonight?"

He offered the punch to her. Take it or not, his smile was genuine and he seemed to want nothing more than light conversation.
 
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Most people at the masquerade had dresses, or perhaps something nice and formal. A few were in costumes, but the boy who approached her was... well, in one hell of a costume. He was dressed like some knight from hundreds of years ago, like at any moment he might summon up a horse and ride off to slay a dragon.

Slaying a dragon probably wouldn't be very politically correct on the Manta Carlos Islands.

His accent was odd, and Anastasia had always considered herself to be fairly cultured, but she couldn't place it at all. Her own Russian accent was obvious enough, and several decades of Hollywood movies with Russians as the villains made it extremely recognizable to absolutely anyone.

"Yes." She admitted, and she gave the punch a brief glance before taking it. She was not a terribly trusting person by nature, but this was a school event, and she had a hard time believing that on a magic island at a chaperoned masquerade ball that someone was going to try and drug her. She accepted it gratefully, giving it a little sip.

"That's quite the suit of armor you have." He seemed to move just fine in it, which suggested that either he was used to it, or else it was significantly lighter than it appeared.

Possibly both, considering the kind of place the school was.

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The knight laughed lightly, looking down at his own outfit. "Oh, this? It's just something I pulled from my wardrobe," he said. It sounded like a joke, but it wasn't, not really.

He took note of her accent though, raising a curious eyebrow. Natuarlly, people came here from all around the world, but he hadn't heard one like hers before.

"Where are you from?" he asked her simply, taking a drink from his own cup. "Your accent is fascinating."

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Her accent was fascinating? Even with the mask, the surprise no doubt showed on her face. Her accent was just normal. Well, it was normal to her, and people who came from overseas tended to recognize it easily enough that it was generally not commented on. The closest people got was when they asked her if she was from Russia, or more commonly just straight out asking her when she'd arrived on the island from Russia.

It was still thick, and she hadn't been exposed to English enough for her accent to start wearing off.

"My accent?" It took her a moment to compose herself, her drink forgotten in her hand. "Russia. I assume you're not from around here?" And by here, she could only imagine... what, exactly? This planet? This universe? This time? He was dressed as a knight, and considering how downright odd the school could be, someone who had been sent forward from the middle ages by some kind of strange magic would not be terribly out of place. All of a sudden she was looking at the suit of armor with new eyes, although it seemed too ornamental and fancy compared to the suits of armors she'd seen in museums. She knew that the knights of western Europe wore plate, but that plate hadn't seemed nearly as fancy as this.

Did dress armor even exist?

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So she'd been right. Or partially right. She'd made a lot of guesses, and one of them had been correct: He had come forward in time. Or at least that was what it sounded like.

"It seemed better to come out to an event, rather than staying bottled up in my room. I'd never been to a masquerade before." She confessed, taking another little sip of the punch. It was surprisingly good, even if it really wasn't she was used to.

She supposed the same could be said about the masquerade - she wasn't used to that either.

"I suppose people just... dance? And try and guess at who they are?" Which seemed very silly to her, because she didn't even know a tiny fraction of the people at the school. How was she possibly supposed to guess the names of those she'd never met?
 
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Home country. She was suspecting he wasfrom some strange distant past, just from the way he talked about it. He wasn't going out of his way to volunteer that information though, and she wasn't the type to pry. She respected people's privacy on matters like that. If they didn't want to talk about it... well, she wasn't going to nudge them to give up information they weren't comfortable giving up.

She was not expecting an invite. She was expecting a 'nice talking to you', and then for him to leave, and instead he'd invited her to dance. She was not much of a blusher (or really one for showing emotions openly at all), but even she couldn't help but go a bit pink.

"I... sure." She blurted out, unable to coherently form a nice eloquent sentence like 'that would be lovely'. Her brain had flown off on her it seemed. "I mean - yes. A dance would be nice. I am not much of a dancer though."
 
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Anastasia didn't really believe in people being naturally good at things. Of course, she believed that some people's bodies were more suited for certain activities then others, but she didn't believe that people were just naturally good at things like art, or dancing, or anything else. People got good because they'd practiced, and there was no question in her mind that the nameless knight had practiced his dancing. He had experience, and she was trying her best not to trip over her own feet.

There was something undeniably nice about it. She would never have chosen to go and dance, but now that she was... well, there was just something that felt oddly graceful, even if she was simply being led along. She let herself be spun, trying to anticipate where he was moving and moving with him.

"You've done this before." She said, although it really wasn't a question. She knew he'd done this before. Probably a whole lot. Most likely with actual lessons.
 
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Of course he'd gone to dancing lessons. He was... what, a knight? A literal knight in shining armor. Of course he'd know how to dance.

"No, not ever. It's not exactly a modern day skill for most people, this kind of dancing." The kind of dancing people did at clubs wasn't really suitable for a masquerade ball, and most people were simply doing a lazy man's version of the waltz, nothing beyond one two three one two three and the occasional spin. "I attended one or two school dances at my old school, but I didn't dance at them." Just talked to her friends and stood around. Nothing that had happened could really have been considered dancing.
 
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