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[color=lightgray][color=ef82a5]Time:[/color] Evening
[color=ef82a5]Location:[/color] The Castle Ballroom
[color=ef82a5]Interactions:[/color] Farim [@Lava Alckon] Magnus [@Remram] Fareed [@Redking0380]
[color=ef82a5]Attire:[/color] [url=i.imgur.com/NbspWII.png]Dress[/url]
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[color=ef82a5]"Nothing would make me happier than seeing your home."[/color] Anastasia told Farim with a sweet smile. [color=ef82a5]"I bet it's absolutely amazing. You make it sound so lovely that now I feel I should be terribly disappointed if I never get to see it at all."[/color]

[color=ef82a5]"Definitely a deal."[/color] Instead of shaking his hand properly, she took it and pressed it to her cheek, snuggling it there for a brief second as though that counted well enough. Then she looked back at Magnus, and her brows lifted in open disbelief. [color=ef82a5]"What? You are not confident?"[/color] she asked, sounding genuinely baffled by it. [color=ef82a5]"But you're beautiful. I should think women are already fighting over you somewhere, and you simply have not noticed. Or maybe you have noticed and are pretending not to."[/color] She tapped her chin, though her usual energy was still absent, she still teased, [color=ef82a5]"Definitely on to you."[/color]

Her mouth curved a little then, faintly amused. [color=ef82a5]"And anyway, all that matters of the heart nonsense is much too dramatic. If you like somebody, you should just say so and be done with it. Life is short, and then you [i]die[/i], so there is hardly any use in standing around waiting."[/color] Her gaze was absentminded, and her words perhaps a little too fast-paced.

She had said it lightly, almost like a joke, but a heaviness settled in her again, all the same. Still, Anastasia tilted her head, studying him. [color=ef82a5]"Really, what is the worst that happens? They say no? Then you feel miserable and dramatic for a little while and eat something sweet, and then eventually you recover. That is far better than never knowing at all."[/color]

[color=ef82a5]"I think it is much sadder to want something and do nothing about it,"[/color] she added more quietly. [color=ef82a5]"At least if you try, it was real."[/color]

At Magnus’s suggestion, she followed his gaze toward the Varian royal and stared for a moment, squinting a little as she searched her memory. [color=ef82a5]"Is she one of your cousins, too, Farim?"[/color] she asked. 

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