Allissa

My favorite hour of the night had no ceremony in it at all.

The formal dances opened and dissolved into real ones. Evette and James took the floor like the world was young, until Finn cut in and my mother, to the eternal delight of every witness, taught the Vampire King the steps to a Lume Pack harvest reel he performed with offensive, immediate competence. Ivan danced with three duchesses at once because subdividing him was impossible. Squall spun Eira until her unsettled quiet finally ...