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Satisfied with the set of his collar the marid took her hands back, one once more coming to rest on the wrist of the other. Dark fingertips playing absently at the numerous strings of blue beads resting there. "You are right, of course," she added in agreement, lips twitching upward in a familiar smile. "But that's not to say you can't make the most of the cards you've been dealt." A small tilt of her head made a challenge of the statement where words alone had not.

The blush was a surprise, and a sliver of self restrain kept the ghoul from playing upon the involuntary act. She was still trying to befriend the reaper after all, and amusing as it likely would have been to make him flush pink, she knew he would have never spoken to her again. The djinn could boast of mischevious tendencies at times, but she was never cruel.

She ignored the blush for the most part, responding with a subtle duck of her chin as she smiled brighter. Looking up at him through a dark veil of long bangs. The shadows painting luminous traces along her cheeks from blue eyes that now seemed to always glow, even if faintly.

Her next question was a foolish one, and she knew it. But still it spilled from her lips. Perhaps she was simply hopeful. "So have you danced with anyone yet?"

She was cute and had a charming laugh the boil thought as he watched her. It was a shame that she had never been to a dance before or go on a date with a boil, he had thought she would have been someone who had been before. He had been to dances, that was if you could count the whole family torture that existed in family gatherings but she could even dance so why hadn't she gone before?

"I'm not all that interesting, I like to nap and play music that is about as far as I get interesting," Joachim replied waved his hands in front of him, "was there anything else you wanted to do while we were here? I mean..... I don't want to you to miss out on something you wanted to see or do...." He hoped she wouldn't mind him asking but he wasn't really sure if there was something she hoped all night to do and him just oblivious in not doing.

"Don't you dream?" Taryn asked, twisting at her hips to swish her dress and arms. She was barely aware that she was doing it at all, but companionship had made her care less what others thought. Let her swish! "and what do you play? That's interesting to me."

Of course, so was mitosis.

Deciding enough time had passed to let them have a moment together, Jericho got on up and made his way through the dance floor towards Riley and Malodore. Smiling, he stopped once he was up by the pair, looking at them both proudly.

"Congratulations you two. You definitely deserved it," he grinned while pulling the couple into a hug. Wings and all of course.

Cady was interrupted from her staring by... her date.

The belly bats were back in full force. It seemed like they were, in fact, flying around her stomach and shrieking mightily. It was uncomfortable, to say the least. She watched his hand mesmerized as he jingled a bell. Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, Cady. IT TOLLS FOR THEE.

Only... "You...you voted? FOR ME?" She was genuinely shocked. Of course, people must have voted for her to win, right? This wasn't something that would occur to the ghoul though. She had clearly been wrong about this boil. He was...He was-!

She gave him an enthusiastic, if awkward, hug. She only paused in throwing herself at him to take and swallow whole a pastry the dancing boil offered her. Yes, never not sugar.

He didn't dream? That was kind of sad, actually. Taryn smiled nonetheless and nodded.

"I want to take music class, I thought about the flute," she said finally, offering her own sticky hand out to Joachim. It seemed as if things were on the wind-down, some people were even leaving, and the screejay booth had been entirely abandoned. She waited a moment to be obliged before turning to return to their table, to sit and chat for the remainder of the prom. Her eyes caught familiar colors before they made the connection, but once Taryn realized who she was seeing, she rushed into the dance floor with one arm raised, dragging a helpless Joachim with her if he had offered his hand. "Tset!"

Riley's disturbance melted away when Jericho wrapped his arms around the two of them. She looked up at him, beaming with pride. We won! Look, I am the Pumpkin King! She laughed, though there was an inward thrill at the sound of the phrase. It was not real, but it was so, so nice to hear.

She took off the crown and dropped it right on Jericho's head, before hugging the two of them close. This has been the best night of my life.

Her honesty would be completely blamed on the sugar, later on.

She looked up at Jericho, and her eyes tilted for a moment, considering.. and then she took the crown back.

...Looks better on me.

"You wouldn't have really interupted anything, but thank you for the thought." Moure nodded to his date with a slight smile. It was really quite considerate of Danny not to go running around look for him, as it probably would have annoyed some of the other Prom-goers.

Moure nodded, glad she had forgiven him. He didn't move her head off when she settled it on his chest, allowing her that much. Was this normal during dances?

"You think so?" Perhaps asking for romantic advice from a ghoul who was just about as oblivious as he was wasn't the best idea, but she was the only ghoul he really knew. "This is true, now I know. It explains so much..." He gave a slight head tip, then continued. "I...I don't really know if I do or not. I mean, I like her just as much as I usually like someone I've talked to twice, like in that friend kind of way...But I don't know what that means, really. I do like her, I just don't know if I like her romantically...? I don't know, my knowledge-slash-experience with romance is pretty much none, so I have no idea what I'm doing, really."

Moure gave a slight laugh. "Do you really like that hat that much...?" He just danced with his date, realizing how long he hadn't spent with Danny. He'd have to make it up to her later. At her question, he gave a slight shrug. "We did dance for a bit, but it was more of us just talking..." He nodded at her, then spoke again. "Is there any way I can make it up to you...?" He meant not being with her for the other dances.