[center][color=crimson][h3]Ailsalia “Lia” Margaux[/h3][/color][/center]
Lia paused at the girl’s question. Fun? What a ridiculous notion that she would waste time with frivolous pursuits at her age. With almost a century and a half under her belt, Lia had long lost interest in most of the meaningless acts of life, although she did find herself with a bit of free time every now and then. Because she couldn’t stand idleness, Lia usually tried to fill this time up with travelling, training, or… 

[color=crimson]“I read,”[/color] Lia said at last. At the girl’s statement as to liking music, Lia blinked. [color=crimson]“I prefer silence,”[/color] she said bluntly. [color=crimson]“Music gets in the way.”[/color] Once upon a time Lia had enjoyed listening to the sound of instruments singing under the fingers of those who had dedicated their time and effort to producing music, but that had been a long time ago — back when she was but an immature vampire in her youth, easily enchanted by meaningless little things. Lia didn’t like to think back to her early years, so she didn’t.

Figuring that she might have been a bit too harsh, Lia decided to end the conversation here and now. [color=crimson]“You’re free to go. I’ll see you in the dorms later,”[/color] she said, turning to survey the crowds. There were quite a few vampires here, and Lia figured that she had to have at least met or heard of one or two. Although she didn’t much like the prospect of having to make small talk with the smile-ridden vampires of the court, Lia decided that she might as well get all the introductions sorted and out of the way, especially since she was going to be stuck with them all in the academy for a while. [i]Hopefully there’s a sensible vampire or two out in the crowd,[/i] she thought, eyes flicking over duos and quintets of vampires and their assigned mages. [i]It’d be a tragedy if the “High Court” failed to pull in a few more reasonable individuals.[/i]

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