Allissa

Midnight found the ballroom at its warmest.

The formal part of the night had melted away hours ago, and what remained was simply family, hundreds strong, loud, ridiculous, scattered across the great floor in the loose orbits of people who had stopped performing for each other. Finn had taught the harvest reel to some horrified vampire nobles and was now conducting them through it with a stolen serving spoon. Ivan had a duchess on each arm and a third one directing him. Asta and Toga ...