[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 and Lottie
Mentions:[@Oso] Cassius
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Her sincerity hit him like a sack of bricks. He did not know if he was worthy of such an assessment, but there was a part of him that desperately wanted to. Just how was he supposed to answer her? Tell her that she was wrong? Did he not just say that he was not going to argue with her on matters of taste? The only response he had for her was the bright red color that tinged his cheeks and the nervous gaze of someone with a question burning inside of their warring heart.

[color=#B3EBC0][i]If I shine like stars then what does that make you?[/i][/color] 

Those words stayed stuck in his throat though the question persisted in his heart and that's where it would stay, for now. Instead, he gave her a half-cocked smile. [color=#B3EBC0]"I won't say no to food."[/color] His gaze looked down at their entwined hands. She hadn't let go yet and for some reason, he struggled with the notion of letting go.

Nolan followed her with his fingers still laced with hers to one of the tables lined with a veritable feast of excess. For him this had become something of his new normal though he knew that the young boy that had lived off of stale bread stolen from another vagrant would have looked up on this with equal parts joy and disgust. Now it just left him disgusted. 

Still, he hid it with a cheeky smirk at the princess. [color=#B3EBC0]"Your eyes look wider than your stomach. Try not to overfill your plate."[/color] 

His fingers unlaced hers almost unwillingly and grabbed her a plate. Over her shoulder though he saw them, Lottie and the mysterious man that looked like the spitting image of Damien Calbert sitting at a table directly across from him. Lottie looked furious, or something a bit more complicated than furious and if he were to wager a guess it would involve the reason why Lorenzo tried to strike King Edin. 

Concern visibly painted his features followed by a pang of guilt. [color=#B3EBC0]"I believe I have been a very poor friend to my nearest and dearest tonight,"[/color] admitted the young noble. His gaze fell back up on his friend before he looked at Marnie. [color=#B3EBC0]"Forgive me, I will only be just a moment or two."[/color] He bowed his head politely before he parted with the princess.

Nolan made his way over to his friend with calm steps that failed to ease his worry. There was never a moment where he did not worry about her and this year had done nothing, but exacerbated them. However, when he finally stood in front of her and her new... whatever they were, a part of him could not but to feel the simple delight of seeing his friend again.

From being he laid a gentle hand on her shoulder. [color=#B3EBC0]"Looks like the night sky is missing a star."[/color] Nolan gave her a fond smile that was reserved for only a handful of people. [color=#B3EBC0]"Lottie, it's been too long."[/color]