[h2][b][color=#EFA73B]Fareed Nashala Asim[/color]
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Starry Night ball

Location: Grand Ballroom 
[quote=@LavaAlckon] [color=#D2691E] ”Ever the vigilant one. I do remember your duties, Fareed. But pleasantries suggest I still ask if you are here for pleasure or for business – if anything for my own curiosity.” [/color][/quote] 

[color=#EFA73B]”Business, as you should well know. Mine siblings do hope for pleasure to come of it, but their optimism is unfounded. Still, it did not hurt to go along with them when I did plan to be in the area originally.” Fareed [/color]states simply, once more looking around the room but not clearly seeing any of  his charges. [color=#EFA73B]” I would not have been on the dance floor, there is a wonderful spot on the second floor that gives good vantage and response time. There was a wonderful bit of machinery up there I hoped to examine. That would have been my relaxation of the night should things have gone to plan.”[/color]

[quote=@princess][color=#EF82A5]"Nothing would make me happier than seeing your home." [/color][/quote]
 
He does not interject immediately, but does so with a gleam in those amber eyes. [color=#EFA73B]”If there is one thing I can give my cousin and his family credit is the refinement of the Sultan's decorations. I shall never speak ill of my father, but he does lack a certian…eye for those things. Pragmatic, or practical some would call him.”[/color] Fareed pats down his jacket for a moment, making a show of it before pulling out a small folded paper that extends out to map. It was not anything that would be shown to the random or threatening, but a hand annotated map of the Sultan's palace gives a good view of what to expect. He carefully does not go into depth of [i]what[/i] things they did to adjust the view of the Palace, but such details can be given by the more sly of the two Alidasht natives.

[quote=@princess][color=#EF82A5]If you like somebody, you should just say so and be done with it. Life is short, and then you die, so there is hardly any use in standing around waiting."[/color][/quote]

But before he would show his cousin a modicum of visible trust, [color=#EFA73B]Fareed[/color] was…surprised. Enough that his stoic facade slipped for a second. The sharpness of his features did not so much soften as they looked tired, like a man without a thousand days rest.

[color=#EFA73B]”Yes…Matters such as that are better spoken aloud then aloud to drown between pages and raindrops.”[/color] The guard slips the map to his cousin before clearing his throat. [color=#EFA73B]”I am afraid I must excuse myself, duty calls.”[/color] It was clear what that truly meant, even if he did hesitate before moving.