Walking into the Great Hall will feel like walking into an actual Enchanted forest. Sylvie put Cade in charge of plants. He put together an army of underclassmen and with the right charms they were able to cover almost the entire hall with greenery and flowers. They used several climbers, on trellises, creating arches and on the ceiling. It was
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Sylvie had embraced the Evil Queen aesthetic for prom. She was wearing a black velvet ballgown (with a deep V-neck, showing a dangerous amount of cleavage), the large cut in the middle of the gown showed off the black sequined trousers. She was wearing incredibly high, stiletto heels and blood red lipstick. Val had done her hair, she'd charmed her straight red hair to jet black curls in half up do with her black and gold crown.
Sylvie had promised Cade she would have fun tonight, but she had to stop and rearrange the food table (the house elves are amazing but Sylvie had very specific vision for how things should be organized tonight).
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"Your majesty!" Aubrey bowed ostentatiously. "Would you do me the honour of this dance?"
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Sylvie pretends to think about it for a moment and then offers her hand, "I will, Lord Macdonald."
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She gets a kiss to the fingers and a lead to the dance floor as pompously as Aubrey can manage. Which is quite a lot, he grew up in pureblood and old money circles, he knows from pompous. He settles into the beat with ease, leading her around. “My father would be so mad at you addressing me as Lord.”
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Aubrey, clad in green velvet and the best air of good cheer he could manage despite an ever increasing sense of melancholy and nostalgia, wandered from dance to dance without a goal, socialising where it caught him and otherwise admiring Cade's plants.
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"The Twice in a Blue Moon is my favorite," Cade was happy enough to wander away from the dancing, catch his breath, and appreciate a moment away from the wall of sound, "but I don't think people appreciate the moss enough."
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“Luminous carpet is-” Aubrey starts as he turns, and chokes on his words when he sees Cade’s outfit which, come on. That’s not, that’s not fucking fair is what it’s not. He realises he is staring, and attempts to finish his sentence, except he has no idea what the fuck he was just saying. “I have no idea what the fuck I was just saying.”
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"Luminous carpet," odd light and lots of sound are not his ideal conditions but Cade's attuned to watching Aubrey's face and so catches what he says and all the staring besides. He's always dressed for his own self-satisfaction when he can get away with it, but he's struck suddenly with the feeling he might not be getting away with it, "Are you alright?"
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Drew wasn't usually someone who felt insecure, but she was feeling a little...less than confident in her short, red dress with feathers. She was examining the food. The feathers woven into her hair kept falling in her face and she was trying hard not to look all mad.
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"Did you end up asking Arlo?" Lot sidled up to Drew not at all surreptitiously and handed her a mini quiche. Friends don't let friends stare at the food table like they're going to murder it, not at a party, "Try these, they're so good."
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Drew nodded and then took a bite. She waited until she swallowed and then said, ""I did ask him. He's looking over Alfie's playlist."
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"Boys," she says, as if she wasn't mentally cataloging the songs and casting judgement. That's the thing though, she's doing it mentally, "Wanna dance with me, then?"
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Knights was an excellent costume dress theme. Lottie had coaxed her Valentine's dress into remarkably metallic shape--red to silver, beads into sequins, fringe into lines of chain-mail that swing just as well. What is a halter neck if not a gorget in the making? What is a cuff bracelet but the beginning of a bracer? What are sword earrings but earrings with badass fucking swords on them? Enough people had told her not to bring a real sword so she hadn't tried. This time. On the dance floor she sparkled, but to be fair she sparkled just as well by the punch, trying to rehydrate.
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"I love the knight thing, I've decided I have a new goal to like, come up with some excuse for me to do this again but better and bigger and with a real sword," she grins at him over the punch, "You and Sof look cute, she's really good at that."
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The original idea had been Evil Queen and king consort, and that had lasted maybe a few hours before he realized he was tired and had done the whole impressive robes thing at the Valentine's dance, and so he had arrived less as king consort and more as the queen's favorite.
It was a study in romantic déshabillé. Black velvet trousers and waistcoat, and a black shirt with a red cravat rakishly undone, leaving him matching Sylvie in everything, including a little cleavage. His jewelry matched her crown, he didn't wear one, and there was no question who would be way more comfortable at the end of the night. Which was very useful as he fussed with a trellis. Amazing feats of herbology can be done very, very quickly, but it's left him incredibly nervous something is going to go wrong any minute.
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Blue thinks he looks better at this dance than the last one. The green suit Sofie put him is better than the pink one. It's a more casual look in general. Think white shirts, untucked and no tie.
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"I just took directions and found people to help," he lets go of the flower he's fussing with and goes to wipe his hands on his trousers before he remembers they're really nice and starts looking around for a napkin or something, "Sofie has good taste too."
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