Holiday Ball (foreward timed) - Gathering post

[scythe_matters]

Buffy had learned long ago that she could do more with the help of others than by herself. Sure, she bossed people around and was the General in a lot of ways with the others that helped both in Sunnydale and other places but she knew as she stood at the entrance to the lobby and looked into the ballroom, that this wouldn't have been pulled off

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Faramir (open)

[faramir_hurin]

I have chosen to wear the court clothing from home. This way I can wear the modern suit for any new year's party. All of the decorations are spectacular, and I cannot help but notice the special things for children. The gingerbread house reminds me of one of the fairy tales in which a witch lives in such a place.

I don't think it was supposed to do that.

I just can't get over how different the hotel looks from what it usually does. Perhaps there's magic involved.

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[kilrenko]

Kilrenko smiles warmly, gliding through the crowd on seeing him. "Good evening, Faramir. Your designs are a hit!"

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[faramir_hurin]

I see Moira coming toward me and try not to stare. Her dress is not like what other ladies are wearing. Well, I must remember that she is not from the same place and that I became accustomed to Glaurnaneth wearing nothing at all. It makes it easier not to stare.

"Good evening, Lady Moira. I am pleased that I was able to provide you with something you could use." Symbols of holidays and winter alike. "I did not realize that they'd be so large."

I'm not sure what I envisioned, but perhaps two feet tall.

"Everything is so grand, and so different from usual." The hotel is always fine, but it looks truly incredible like this.

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[kilrenko]

"Jack Frost was having fun. I don't think he was expecting anyone to want to appreciate his work... not like this." She laughs gently. "We may find ice sculptures all over the village after tonight.

"You look very fine tonight," she says with a smile.

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[faramir_hurin]

"Why wouldn't be want to appreciate his work? It's very fine." I haven't met this Jack Frost, so I have no insight into him at all. "I wouldn't mind them."

As long as they weren't frightening to the children. They seemed to enjoy them very much.

"Thank you. This is what we'd wear for a celebration at home." I feel rather self-conscious. "You look very bright and festive."

My own blue is more subdued.

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[kilrenko]

"I found it in my closet on arrival. It wasn't until I happened to meet Buffy planning the ball that I realized why it was there.

"It's not quite what I would wear ... would have worn," she corrects herself, "Back home. But then, my time is a bit more libertine than any other culture I've met here."

She flags down one of the wandering waiters and fetches a glass of champagne for herself. "Would you like a glass?" she offers.

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[faramir_hurin]

I blush slightly, because I actually can imagine.

"Mine is much more conservative. Even in summer I wear sleeves to my wrists and a closed collar. Perhaps I'll unbutton now, but modern clothes will be cooler than mine from home any way."

I do not know Moira well at all but a question comes to me. She seems honest.

"Do I seem very backward to you? I am how I was made and raised, but I do wonder what others see."

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[kilrenko]

"I try not to judge people, for two reasons. First because I was raised and trained to make anyone feel special, no matter how different they are from me. That's kind of hard when deep down I feel superior in any way... It still comes out in little ways.

"Then there's that phrase the Christians have. Something about not worrying about the mote in someone else's eye until I take care of my own."

She takes a glass from the waiter for Faramir and holds it out to him, sipping from the glass in her other hand. "What I see when I look at you is a nice man, who cares about his friends."

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[faramir_hurin]

"A lot of people say a lot of things and do differently, which I find very confusing." Not just Christians, but it does go against what I understand their teachings to be.

"Thank you. I try my best to represent my lands well. I find myself friendly with people of vastly different time and place and upbringing--we seem to share more important things." What we are inside is more the same. "Some of them would be considered criminals, yet they are more honest with themselves than some 'good' people."

It's strange.

"You say you feel superior and it comes out, but you admit it. That says something." She is not a hypocrite, at least she is not being so with me.

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[kilrenko]

Kilrenko smiles, listening to him. "It says a lot about you that you are able to befriend people who are different from yourself."

She laughs softly at his last sentence, a wry twist to her lips. "Well, if the superiority were due to money or social connections, it wouldn't really be superiority, would it?"

She shakes her head. "A lot of people put a lot of time and effort into making me as I am today. Coupled with strenuous training to do what I did back home. I would not be this beautiful or anything without them."

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[faramir_hurin]

"They are the same in the ways that matter." The differences could be put aside.

"I don't know. Many people are superior about those things. I could be." I don't think I am, but if I were but a little different...

"You are made?" I don't suppose that matters either. "Don't we all owe who and what we are to others, at least in part?"

I consider.

"Not to blame them, because we are responsible for ourselves. Still, everyone is shaped by something. Many things, usually."

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[kilrenko]

"Not made like an object, but changed from what I was." She huffs a soft laugh. "I remember when the village changed me back to a little boy of eight. I was horrified..."

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[faramir_hurin]

Max was made, but she was not an object. I'd ask what she meant, but her words give me an idea.

"Oh. I was not changed this time, but previously it turned me seven. I was a boy, but I've always been." Not so for Moira, it seems. "Horrified to be a boy, or horrified to be so young?"

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[kilrenko]

"Both," she says with a small twist of her lips. "I was... helpless, in a way I haven't been since I was picked to become an Allura.

"And of course there was the fear of being returned to my galaxy after being inexplicably de-aged and all that very, very expensive and painstaking work that had been done to me undone."

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[faramir_hurin]

"I never thought of being returned home like that. The first time my brother was here and he was twelve, so things were not so frightening. We didn't even consider going home." Even when we knew we were changed. Nowhere near so much as she was.

"Did you find anyone to help you? Even the second time I changed I still had Boromir--though he was left grown that time." It would be awful for her--him--to be on his own.

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[kilrenko]

"Fortunately my lover was a very understanding man. And that I'd told him of my origins before he woke up next to an underage boy after falling asleep next to a very eligible woman..."