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Sherral ([personal profile] fluffiest_archadian) wrote2014-12-14 11:38 pm

[OOM] The Amondsham-Telane Wedding.

It is a sorry bunch attending this wedding. The hall in Rabanastre palace where they sit is small, and there are still a handful of empty seats. Still, it's easy to tell who's who:

The garrison command, headed by a grey-haired man who gives off a grandfatherly aura, in their grey and red formal dress, along with a man and a woman dressed similarly, save that their uniform is black and charcoal with red highlights. There's a handful of soldiers who clearly aren't Archadian, too, dressed in blue and cream.

Rabanastre's merchants, dressed in a brightly coloured mismatch of patterned fabrics with hair styled elaborately and jewellery on their wrists and around their necks.

Nobles and ambassadors, by far the smallest of the group, in coloured (but not quite so neon rainbow) silk and wool. Several of them have fans. Most of them are muttering about how Liana is marrying beneath her station (and one so old). One family of four, dressed in canary yellow cloaks fashioned to look like feathers, just look charmed to be there, bar one young man who looks like he's trying to sink into his clothes and avoid the gaze of the garrison.

Business associates of the groom, who if the muttering from others is anything to go by may be celebrities. A few of them are jolly, older people, but most of them look like supermodels who have just stepped off the catwalk.


The wedding is - awkward. A man in very smart clothing with very shiny glasses runs through a set of vows, while the groom (whose shapeless robes really only accentuate the fact that he's about twenty years the senior of his bride) looks apathetic and the bride (of far more fashionable dress) looks distantly scathing, as if she's biting back about a hundred sarcastic comments.

When they are told they may kiss, the peck each other. On the cheeks. Like seagulls whose hearts aren't quite in it.


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The reception takes place in Rabanastre Palace's expansive ballroom, a room that is opulent and glittering and has walls lined with frescoes depicting the glorious history of Dalmasca in charmingly abstract style.

There is a buffet. It has something very much like turkish delight on one end, but the yellow-cloaked family are converging on it and soon this won't be the case.

Sherral leads his visitors in with the garrison command and their guests.

"No stealing from anyone, no letting on about the magical bar, no killing anyone outside of mutually agreed upon duels," Sherral says. "Apart from that, enjoy yourself. If you see a security concern, Captain Beor," he gestures over at a large man in his twenties, "will no doubt be happy to hear of it."

Beat.

"Have fun."
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-16 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
"He talked about how those working in the stock markets are nervous, but that's normal. They're always worried and politics makes them jumpier."
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-16 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, I am. Just picking up free drinks and flirting. No stealing or anything. Do you need me to distract anyone?"
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-16 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm on my best behavior. Which one is he?"

He turns to look around then adjusts the fall of Sherral's robes.
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-16 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Noted, I'll keep him from getting in your way."
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-17 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll be sure to think of something," He smirks and starts towards the ambassador to listen to his conversation and observe more of the party.
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-17 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Moist watches it all and then when the ambassador turns to him looks honored,

"Oh, yes, servants can be so terrible at actually following directions. Its even worse when they're soldiers, they get all these ideas about thinking for themselves."
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-18 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Clearly their commanders are doing a horrible job with them. Not everyone is a fighter. I prefer to spend my energy and ambition in other ways than worrying if someone wants to punch me."
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-18 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
"I work in finance, trying to make enough so I can concentrate on other more interesting matters."
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-18 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, it does and there's always a need for it."
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-18 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm good at doing that. Money needs to keep moving around, it does the most good that way."
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-18 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh whatever I want," He smiles and lifts his glass.
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Re: Moist.

[personal profile] morethanprops 2014-12-18 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Moist smirks and bows to him.