Snippet #1878000

As they reached the ballroom, the deep moan of the clock striking twelve drifted hauntingly through the night air. Walking through the large crowd that had gathered in the room, a young woman approached the two and grabbed the arm that hung on the man's side. "My pardons, Miss, but I need my brother for a little bit. Do you mind?" With that, she pulled him away from Adara, and they were gone in a matter of seconds. But before he had left, the man managed to throw her a slightly apologetic smile before being dragged into the crowd.

Adara watched him being drawn away from her, looking on curiously. Through the ground - though it was barely made of Earth - she felt the two nearing the front of the crowd. After a few moments she saw him move toward the stage, and in seconds come to stand atop it, right beside the other kings.

She realized why he had felt the need to ask her to dance before - and why he traveled so often. How odd. . . she thought inquiringly. He's a king.

He hadn't seemed like one. Most were overly charming, and reveled in the attention offered from being a king. But this man that she had been with. . . he was rather quiet, and he had told her before that he enjoyed spending time in the gardens of the places he went - much more than being with people he was supposed to be with.

As Adara understood that she - a rather wild, anti-social girl - had just spent the last of a long evening with a king - well, it made her want to laugh. How ignorant she could be sometimes! She looked up in time to see him remove his mask and laughed quietly under her breath, a slight smile playing around her lips.

A king. . . Who would have thought. . .

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Reyne stood with her mask hanging loosely from her ears.

It was time.

Bringing her arms up at her sides, she held her hands, palms up, and began chanting the dark spell that wast o cast the barrier around the kings. There was only one missing now. She stood near the front of the crowd, just covered by enough people to hide the low words she spoke. Soon. . . soon it would time - time to release the magick that she held inside her - just waiting to erupt. The magnitude of their magick together would be incredible.

And Reyne couldn't wait to watch the chaos that ensued.

[[I apologize for my horrid writing, guys! Not much going on in this head of mine. . .]]