Discovery - Chapter 2
A Ball
Summary: Neal discovers his cousins feelings for his best friend.
Disclaimer: Everyone knows the drill. Not mine.
This chapter is set at a celebration for the end of the Scanran War, at the palace in Corus in winter time, and the wealthy nobles are announced last, followed by the honored ocmmanders and soldiers in the Scanran War and their excorts. I doubt the next chapter for this story will be up for a while though.
Lady Knight Keladry of Mindelan brushed the few stray snowflakes off her floor length coat.
It was a thick coat, made for protection against the winter cold, with fur lining the cuffs of the sleeves, hem of the coat and hood. Slowly Kel removed the tan coloured coat, careful not to wreck the elegant dress underneath and unwinding the long fluffy forest green scarf from around her neck, handing them to one of the alert footman that stood beside the grand double doors, tipping him a copper noble. That done she selected one of the chairs placed nearby and waited for her turn to be announced.
Her light brown hair was in one of the newest court fashions – most of her hair was tightly braided and pinned up with small gold flower clips, allowing many wispy strands of hair to fall artfully around the maze of braids – and the elegance the style gave her drew envious glances from the few wealthy maidens deemed worthy of a later announcement
Her hazel-green eyes that were framed by long lashes examined the room carefully, looking for any friend that may be waiting to be announced. Not seeing anyone she reached up to fiddle with the elaborate gold earrings that adorned her ears. They were a piece of art, lots of gold circular disks joined together in a triangle formation.
"Anxious are we?" Kel jumped, a small 'eep' emitting from her glossy pink lips.
She stood up, turning around to glare at the now laughing figure positioned behind her chair, although to her great annoyance, one look into those sapphire blue eyes and she felt all her anger ebb away as quickly as it had appeared.
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Lalasa had surely outdone herself this time, although Dom could not be certain since he had only seen a couple of Kel's former maids dresses before.
Kel was outfitted for the evening in a deep forest green dress with a full circle skirt that flowed perfectly as she twirled around to glare up at him. The garment was obviously meant for the cold, with long flowing sleeves that reached down a little way past the tops of her turquoise green fingernails and a thick multi-coloured dark green skirt.
The bottom of the bodice and the modestly low neck-line had been dotted with different sized emeralds. Topped off with minor gold embroidery, a golden griffin necklace, (which he had given her last Midwinter – a couple of days ago. He could not help but feel the satisfaction that with its tiny emerald eyes it had been an excellent gift) a small amount of face paint and a pair of delicate Yamani slippers woven with gold thread, his lady knight looked lovely but not overdone.