Artemis ducked into the ballroom, hopefully going unnoticed as he obviously had arrived late. He quickly made sure to make it look like he was here the entire time and looked around. It seemed that guests had already started to arrive.

The prince would also search the room to see whether his siblings (and father) were present. Elizabeth was searching for someone, Beatrix was greeting the guests, Victor was… talking with his classmates from his fencing class. Oh dear. Nos, bless him, had already gone to go start making connections. Artemis supposed he needed to go do the same.

As he started to slowly work his way across the ballroom, greeting guests with a small (fake) smile and striking up friendly conversation with those he wanted on his side, he couldn’t help but wonder where his father went.