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[i]You have been cordially invited...[/i]
Perhaps you had been excited when the invitation had wound up at your doorstep, perhaps you'd been angry or scared. Perhaps you'd been an opportunist who intended to take a chance this night or perhaps you had a score to settle while every Iris member was right where you could see them. Chances are that whatever brought you here tonight had been fueled by emotion and now that you were here, you were [i]underwhelmed[/i] by the outside. It looked dilapidated and worn, an old hotel that had been abandoned to time. Stained windows, crumbling structure, a death trap.

The night was crisp and the air bit at your skin. As discouraging as the building might have been from the outside, you can't help but know that your king would be terribly offended if you didn't attend per his invitation. As you enter the building, you are surrounded in a pale ethereal light. It gleams off polished white marble floors. Candles cast flickering shadows and the room hums with music, drifting from the stage placed against the far wall of the room. Other guests talk quietly amongst themselves, swaying to the gentle melody or dining on the various finger-foods laid out for the guests. There was something almost surreal about the gathering, seeing so many of your kind or so many of [i]their[/i] kind in one place. 

The tables that had been set with food were swathed in gauzy white. There were crystal vases of white roses, their velvet petals complementing the haze of blue light. There was the soft and enticing [i]swish[/i] of dresses and the [i]click[/i] of heels, a quiet and social beauty. It was all quite contrived in some ways, this gathering was a mess of mixed classes and it was only a matter of time before [i]that[/i] went terribly wrong. 
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