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[color=peru][center][h2]Stratya Durmand[/h2][/center]
Time:[/color] 23rd, Evening
[color=peru]Location:[/color] The Masquerade
[color=peru]Interactions:[/color]
[color=peru]Mentions:[/color] Peter [@JJ Doe] & Olivia [@Potter], Nahir [@Rodiak] & Riona, Layla
[color=Peru][url=https://i.imgur.com/qc4Q1sY.jpeg]Mask[/url] & [url=https://i.imgur.com/nP2Ilq2.png]Masquerade[/url]
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   Wow. Whoever was playing this rather infuriating game was rather quick at it. She would almost say too quick, but thieves were an amazing bunch. Scoundrels, most of them, but amazing. The deftness of hand was not to be underestimated. She had to stop herself from thinking too hard about it, since she was strictly off duty.

  Someone around her mocked the preparator of a collision. A collision, a common avenue for pickpockets to wander down in their pursuit of pockets to pick. Right, then. “[color=peru]Who collided?[/color]” Some oaf backed into an Alidashti guest, of all people. Or... Something like that. [color=peru][I]Yes, an “oaf”[/I][/color]. She surveyed the crowd around her and did find a pair that stood out to her. It did seem like they were recently disturbed. Before she could approach, the pair danced their way out onto the ballroom floor and away from the side crowds. So the dancers on the floor were also now subject to this thievery game?

   Being off-duty never sounded so good. Right, then, more wine. That's some good stuff. She usually only ever had mead or beer or some such, the classier stuff was an interesting change of pace. Something you sipped at.
   As she sipped and watched and felt out of place, she saw the pair dancing their own dance, their beat distinct from the surrounding music and rhythm. The one dancer seemed distracted, but she couldn't determine by what, his movements seemed strange, but she couldn't see him well enough to determine why. Stratya let the departure of a party of foreign delegates and guards distract her for a moment. When her attention returned, the two dancers were dancing along with everyone else. It didn't matter. She knew which ones to watch now.

   So much for off-duty. Was this her way of avoiding socializing? Hmm.