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"More Famine Horsemen?" Heidla furred her brow. "You guys seem to be mixing well, though I could have expected it", she smiled benighly and turned to one of the new Famine clansmen with a perplexed expression: "I guess I saw you once... on the battlefield with that flower-power creature!"

Then she shrugged her shoulders. "Well, who cares. I am Heidla, the priestess of the Death clan. Welcome to the freak show". Impatiently, she looked around the room.



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As she had proven many times, intangible feet didn't always mean immune to clumsiness. It ended up being about her air-headed wandering combined with sloppy balance and she'd just topple over, taking down whatever was nearby, stumbling through like a baby elephant pinwheeling. Amarus was a student, after all, not a deadly warrior-- even if she postured herself as one. Or as a future one. Whatever.

The only experience Amarus had in coordination with someone was via a fight. And, in fact, that was one reason Amarus considered a fight a better way to introduce yourself than the normal means: small-talk was easy to fake, and kind of boring, but a fight taught you right away how you were able to interact with someone. If it was elegant, then it was like a conversation. It also removed any barriers of self-consciousness when you were pressed up against your opponent trying to pin them, or moving in close for swift strikes. Basically, it was a lot more familiar to Amarus, a language she spoke. Dancing was proving to be pretty similar indeed, though; instead of besting her opponent, she was trying to match him.

It was really fun. Disgustingly so. In fact, when he shifted his posture and told her to move to the music with him, she didn't do all that horribly. "Look, oh master of dance, I am actually getting this!" Amarus looked pretty pleased about the prospect, her normally mirror-blank eyes lit up. "I think I could handle swing dancing! Looks like you won't have to keep my failure a secret after all," she claimed, grinning.

Until she took a weird step and clipped into someone dancing nearby-- just because her feet were intangible didn't mean she was immune to that kind of a collision. It turned into an attempt to steady herself and prevent the other student from falling, but that actually manifested as punching them in the face, and then she entered fight-mode, spinning once and crouching low to regain her balance, fingers braced against the ground. The scales of her triple-train spun around her, and she tried to maintain her intangibility to keep from hitting anyone. Getting to her feet, finally, she thought it was over, and took a deep breath. Before taking a step and tripping over. "Jacking son of a candlejack," Mar swore under her breath, wrinkling her nose. She had been so close.

"Okay, Mot. I remember why I'm the student now, and you're the dance master," she lamented. So much worse than just tripping.

(」゜ロ゜)」

WAT DO.

Her friends were all, for good reason, trying to encourage her to walk away and leave this be. Thanatos was right--they probably could get the vampire kicked out if he went around harassing people--but at the same time...that would probably only prove to be a stain on her otherwise perfect night since she now knew that it was preventable (both the harassment and the "getting someone kicked out" part). She had been looking forward to prom for the whole year--to her, it was kind of the anniversary of when her school life had really begun--and while she knew it was probably foolish and idealistic, she wanted everything to be perfect.

That, and all the nicknames he was throwing at her friends was really starting to bother her.

Xiu frowned, staring at Lou calculatingly as he named his price. Just...one slow dance? That seemed easy enough--at most, it would only be four minutes out of her life. It wasn't as if she couldn't hold her own either, and if it meant preventing any further harassment to her friends for the rest of the night...

The ghoul smiled a little when she felt Amphi take one of her hands, and she gave the mermaid's hand a gentle squeeze in return before sighing heavily. Turning back to look at Lou, she reached out with her free hand and jabbed a finger at the vampire's chest, her cheeks puffed out. After a moment of silence, she spoke up in a very firm tone of voice, "One slow dance. One, in exchange for you leaving my friends alone. Just to clarify, this means not harassing Shun and Mitsu, not calling Amphi and Thanatos names, apologizing to my friend here--his name is Vaith--and being a perfect gentleman to everyone here for the rest of the night?"

There was a long pause as she awaited his answer, and then without a word, she extended the same hand she was poking him with towards him for him to shake.

Sheridan had been far too occupied with his ghoulfriend to notice the approaching imp (maybe the height, or lack there of, of the imp had something to do with that). However he had noticed that something seemed to have troubled her. His head titled, a concerned look in his eyes.

"What is it?"

And then he saw, a brow raised as the demon approached. Who the, what...hey, GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY GHOUL!

There was no mistaking that growl, or the menacing glare that he was giving the imp, or the snap of his tail. He did not know who this imp was, but he did NOT appreciate it touching his ghoulfriend! Even if it was her lower half.

"I would prefer you not do that again."

His words may have been polite, but his tone was not.

It was just a little bit frustrating, and possibly a bit sad, that Alex couldn't even find his date. As it was, he felt just a little bit foolish, standing around on his own, head turning one way then another, stumbling over his stupid new shoes, and just all around looking very lost. It was all he could do not to slouch over and dig his hands in his pockets and go and lean against a wall and just wait for Yin to wander by. Oh, maybe he was in the bathroom!

Thankfully, before he could even go and look, it was to be Yin that would find him first. He had his head turned in another direction when he heard his boilfriend's voice, and he might have sagged in relief a little bit before he turned to see his--

Yin was in a suit. Yin was in a suit. And he was wearing a tie. It was funny how that's all Alex could think of at the moment, as all other thoughts, and any words of greeting completely flitted out of his mind, leaving him staring at his boilfriend almost blankly. His jaw might have been hanging open but he soon snapped it shut as the biggest, dopiest smile ever spread across his face. Yin was in a suit and in a tie and he looked..just..nope, words could not even describe how good Alex thought Yin looked at this moment. It took him a moment to realize that he was just standing there, staring, not saying anything, with that silly smile plastered across his face. Words, speaking, they probably needed to happen before he completely freaked Yin out, if he hadn't already.

Alex took a couple of steps forward, made more awkward by the fact that he felt like he was relearning how to walk at the moment, and closed the distance between them, and leaned down towards him, "....."

Nope, he still couldn't even talk. Good job Yin.

And then, finally, a quietly choked out and murmured. "You look so good..just..I can't even." Smooth, Alex. A slow, shaking breath, and a step back to look down at him a little better, and he was speaking again, this time a little more slowly, trying to actually think out words.

"You're the best looking boil here and I..think I might just be in love with you."

....Wait, what? Why..why did he just...

Yin was never allowed to wear a tie again. Alex's brain just completely ******** off.

Nuru frowned and reached out as far as he could to try and pat the draugr on his shoulder, "Awww ahm sure she'll be hea' soon, okeh?"

He flashed a hopeful little smile at the boil, "Zah didn't want to come at all, now look at 'im~" he offered the boil he had a death grip on a warmer little smile.

TG was not an idiot, and he looked up at Tess with a flat gave that said 'Come on, Toots.'

"Let's just get this straight. When you are at my angle for as long as I've been livin, you get familiar with legs. Now I haven't seen a nice set of slenders as this pair in a while, and I've yet to see a ghoulie around here that has the balls to wear panties like this one."

At the dragon's growl, TG glanced at the tail, then at the boil......wwwaaaayyy up at the boil. Dragon. Monster. Not worth his time. Ugh, what WAS this guy wearing? His lack of style was offensive!!! He made a face at the tie before looking back to Legs directly. "I didn't know you were tangoing with a no-style monster. He might be all size, baby, but I bet he doesn't know how to use it. How about you ditch the lizard and have some fun with me?" He said, petting one slender legs.

"Nice heels." Damn he loved a set of legs in heels.