Party Time

[loveandduty]

Who: Everyone who wants to attend.
What: It's a party for all, but the pairing up part is for singles only.
When: Day 19 of Fiddlesticks
Where: Gym Carriage
Warnings: Who knows atm just Minako being Minako will add more as things happen.

[Minako figured she did the best she could for the party. Though she also wondered if perhaps she might not have that many people come. Sure she wanted to put singles together, but at the same time, she simply wanted people to have fun.

In the dressing carriage, people will find costumes and masks that were more gothic in nature. There was food and hopefully some forms of sweet treats for those looking for it as well as a variety of drink, mostly non-alcoholic.]

OOC: Examples of the type of outfits and such can be found here: costumes and
masks]

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Lightning and Wen Qing

[loveandduty]

[radishlobbyist]

Even though she had gone to all this effort and even asked Lightning to help her get dressed up, ending up with a dress far more daring than she would normally wear and even a fancy mask, Wen Qing is once again keeping to the fringes of the party now that she is here.

She doesn't quite know what to do with herself and she hasn't warmed up to the music, so she keeps to a drink right until Minako suddenly shows up and drags her away into the crowd.

Dragging her right to the side of a certain pink-haired woman who Wen Qing recognizes very well beneath her mask, for she helped her pick the dress. She freezes, eyeing Minako, then eyeing Lightning, giving her a meaningful look and tiny shake of her head. Let's just play along and pretend they have no clue who this is, alright?

[enthunder]

Light doesn't choke on her drink when Qing is led triumphantly over to the table she's been set at, but it's a close thing. Her own mask is a purple confection of feathers, from behind which she widens her eyes at the other woman's expression.

"Nice to meet you," she manages, voice a strangled thing of amusement and mortification.

[radishlobbyist]

Wen Qing presses her lips together to keep the laughter from bubbling up in her at Lightning's strangled solemn greeting.

"Yes. It is wonderful to meet you," she forces out, sounding only a little strangled. Again, she catches Lightning's eyes and lets them linger, enjoying just how fetching her eyes look with the lovely purple feather mask.

She waits until Minako has left them alone and then quiet chuckles are bubbling up.

[enthunder]

To fill the time, she ransacks her mental library of terrible fictional dialogue that she's built up over the past months. Braces herself. Settles for, "What brings you... here?"

But Minako is leaving, and Qing has started to dissolve into near-silent laughter before Light finishes speaking. She pauses, caught up in a sudden rush of affection for the woman now sitting across from her.

[radishlobbyist]

Once she has stifled her laughter down to a mischievous little smirk, Wen Qing gives her a pointedly innocent look.

"A friend and I made a deal to wear nice dresses and have fun for an evening," she explains blithely, "now if I only knew where that friend has run off to but with everyone wearing masks I couldn't possibly know."

[enthunder]

"Guess I can keep you company until they come back." Her look has Light raising her eyebrows, the movement mostly hidden behind the mask. The smile isn't. Nor the way she shifts again, leaning back, comfortable now that she knows she's not going to be landed with a stranger. "How's the dress feeling?"

[radishlobbyist]

"Still uncomfortably airy, and I'm uncertain if I like that or hate it," Wen Qing admits. "It feels very different from wearing robes or uniform." And there is cleavage. She peers down along her body, giving herself a doubtful look.

Her lips curl again. Much like Lightning, she finds herself relieved by the choice of date, funny as it is. She is certain she wouldn't be able to talk so freely to some random stranger on the train. "But a friend of mine said it suits me and I trust her."

[enthunder]

"They're not really designed for comfort," she agrees, echoing something they'd both probably griped about in the dressing carriage, "But your friend's right." Even sitting down, Wen Qing has brought her odd, straight-backed grace with her, and Light is already trying to hold back fidgeting with the cascade of ruffles that flow down her own dress.

She takes another drink, instead of tugging at them again. "Your brother's here?"

[radishlobbyist]

With Lightning fidgeting with the ruffles on her dress, Wen Qing's eyes keeps being drawn to these ruffles and it makes her hand twitch, wanting to reach out and smooth them for her.

She decides to copy Light and take a gulp from her drink to distract her. "I'm not sure if he's coming to the party," she admits, looking around for Wen Ning but unable to catch sight of him from where she stands, "he was planning to but he might have changed his mind. He is shy around strangers." She presses her lips together, struggling not to get giddy all over again over having A-Ning here. "Do you like him?"

[enthunder]

She considered, also unable to spot him in the crowd. Which probably meant he wasn't there yet, given how distinctive those chains were.

"He's... exactly like you said he'd be."

That wasn't an answer, was it? She would have left it there, but after their conversation about him, it felt like Qing was owed more than that. It took another sip before she added, "Yeah, he's a good guy."

[radishlobbyist]

Wen Qing laughs a little at that assessment of Wen Ning being exactly as she had said he would be.

"I have talked a lot about him, haven't I?" she mused, a little sheepish. "I hope it hasn't been too much. It's just that he is the only family I have left." And well, it was easy to talk to Lightning about home, about her family, since she didn't worry about being judged.

She took another sip from her drink. "I'm glad you like him. It's important to me, that the people I care for like my family. You understand that, can't you?"

[enthunder]

She was about to assure her that, no, honestly, she could talk about him all day and Light wouldn't hold it against her. That seeing the two of them together soothed a wound in her, too, gave her hope.

Then Qing spoke again, and her assurance came out as a cough. The people she cared for had a different tone to it, sat here in gowns, sipping something sweet. But... well, she wasn't wrong, was she? If Serah showed up on the next platform, she'd want them to meet almost immediately. The idea that her sister could arrive, and one of them might not approve of the other... Was this what she put Serah through?

Her voice was a little rough, but she nodded with more certainty. "I... Yeah. I get that."

[radishlobbyist]

Wen Qing just smiled, as pleased as she was unsurprised by that answer. Of course Lightning would understand. "I knew you would," she said quietly and took another sip from her drink. "If... when your sister shows up, I hope to meet her, too, and I will do my best to win her approval."

Gaining the approval of Lightning's family, that felt far more important than just being liked by a friend's relatives. This was important.

She ducked her head, finding her glass suddenly very interesting. "I would wish her to think that you have made the right choice by spending your time with me."