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Blue Dress – Depeche Mode (Teagan/F!Mage PC)
Can you believe
Something so simple
Something so trivial
Makes me a happy man
Can't you understand
Say you believe
Just how easy
It is to please me
"Mages can marry, or so I am told."
"They can, if the man is brave enough."
"I can think of several reasons why one would be willing to be so brave..."
A whispered mix of murmured excitement, awe and fear, rippled across the crowd as the Guest of Honor arrived.
The moment she came into view, he knew he had chosen perfectly. The midnight blue silk set off the color of her eyes, making them sparkle like the gems pinned into her curls. Moonstones the size of his thumb twined with silver around her neck and slender waist, accenting the flashes of skin left pale against the silk.
She threaded through the gathering with confidence; her youth spent under the steely gaze of Templars made the noble glares seem pale in comparison. She smiled to those she knew and nodded to those she didn't, leaving no one unnoticed.
He tried diligently to pay attention to the other Banns, but like a lodestone, his gaze would return to her sapphire brilliance. Her laugh tickled along his spine as her smile brought warmth to his heart. Had anyone asked, he would have claimed it was purely coincidence that he was the closest to her when the minstrels picked up their instruments.
When he asked her to dance, her smile was gracious and wide, yet the wicked gleam in her eye was only for him.
Though his hands were in their proper places, his mind roamed her body, kindling his blood like her first smile in Redcliff.
At the time, the impending danger had made his flirting clumsy.
Now, he was distracted by nothing but her.
"Thank you for the dress," she whispered as the dance drew her close.
His smile was an echo of the swell in his chest. "You are most welcome, my lady; and most beautiful."
She blushed prettily. "One would wonder how you knew what size it should be."
Teagan gazed down at her, his mind in a million futures where she was with him. "I have to keep some of my secrets safe, don't I?"