[center][color=#B3EBC0][h1]Nolan Edwards[/h1][/color][/center]
Location: Grand Ballroom 
Attire: Attire: [url=https://i.imgur.com/8JdKRkn.png]Starry Night Attire[/url]
Interactions: [@princess] Marina
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It took every fiber of his being not to rip his hands away from her. For just a brief moment, he felt like control had been wrestled away from him and it made his stomach lurch with an anxiety that disgusted him. She wasn't the monster that his nervous system screamed she was. She wasn't this cruel or selfish woman that wanted to hurt him. She was kind, sentimental, outrageous, and just as awkward as him and, yet for that moment he could only feel a fear that sickened him.

[i][color=#6C72C6]"Why would you say that?"[/color][/i]

He opened his mouth to respond to her though words failed him. What was he supposed to say? Bear every dark secret that scarred his back? Tell her who he really was? [i]What[/i] he was and the consequences that marred his life?

Gods, he hated how he looked at her. She made him feel like he was actually a person and that frightened him. His gaze dropped to her hands clutching tightly to his own.

[i][color=#B3EBC0]Because if you knew would you look at me the same?[/color][/i] 

And then just a word, a simple [color=#6C72C6]"No"[/color] brought his attention back to her with raised brows as she stomped closer to him. The word hit him like a club over the back of the head and she certainly looked angry enough to actually hit [i]someone[/i] with one. Her words were anything, but violent. He almost had to laugh—it was the kind of response that he would come to expect from her and yet she somehow surprised him.

Almost. The implication that he was too her taste had done very little to tame the heat in his cheeks.

[color=#B3EBC0]"Who am I to question the taste of a princess of Varian?"[/color] He chuckled sheepishly, his green eyes averting hers nervously. Nolan looked down back at her hands that held his so softly.[color=#B3EBC0]"So when you look at me, what do you see?"[/color] He murmured. [color=#B3EBC0]"Do I shine for you?"[/color]

His eyes widened when he realized what he had just asked. [color=#B3EBC0]"No, um, forget I said anything!"[/color]