Turns End Ball (Control Post)

Writers: Miriah
Date Posted: 13th December 2019

Characters: Yriadha
Description: Sunstone throws its Turn's End Ball
Location: Sunstone Seahold
Date: month 13, day 30 of Turn 10
Notes: Feel free to post about being a guest, dancing, and eating!
Mentioned: Bryvin, Brina

Yriadha

Sunstone's dining hall was a spectacle of decoration that had taken
two days to complete. Yriadha had involved her entire staff in the
activity, including the young girls who had arrived for fostering.
Ribbons and bright flowers draped with elegance along the rafters and
the walls decorated with freshly laundered tapestries that displayed
the history of the southern continent and Sunstone Seahold.

The tables were draped in the Hold colors and lined along the side
with chairs for dining, candles brightly lit to add flickering, warm
ambiance along the walls. Drudges dressed in Hold colors were also
stationed along the walls, ready to clean away empty plates and
platters, fill drinks and serve the Lord Holder's guests. The middle
of the dining hall had been cleared for dancing, and group of four
Harpers set up on the dais to play with stringed instruments.

Overall, Yriadha was pleased with the results of the days' efforts.
Even the girls had worked hard, excited about the possibility of an
evening of dancing. Yriadha felt a pang of nostalgia for her own
youth, when she had been just as excited as the young girls over the
small dances in her family's home. This evening, however, she would be
unable to take part. She would be far too busy managing the entire
evening and making sure it went smoothly for all of the guests for her
to take the time to enjoy herself.

As the girls began to enter, Yriadha watched from along the walls,
listening to the light applause as other guests also began to arrive.
At her gesture, drudges pulled out chairs and the Harpers began to
play light music to provide background for the meal and then later on
the dancing. The meal, of course, would be first and at the Lord
Holder's signal, the dancing would be able to begin. She knew the
dancing would last late into the evening; it would be a late night for
her as well and she would get little sleep as she directed the
eventual cleaning.

Her goal, however, was to ensure that the evening would be pleasurable
for everyone, particularly for Lord Bryvin. As people took their
places, she watched as they stood beside their chairs until the Lord
Holder's arrival. He was supposed to arrive with Lady Brina at his
side, taking the place of a Lady Holder until he made his choice,
perhaps from the hopeful young Ladies assembled in the ballroom.
Already, she saw hopeful young eyes scan the entrance for his arrival.

A murmur began near the doorways and Yriadha stood straighter. From
her position along the back of the wall, she saw the door open and the
top of Lord Bryvin's dark head as he made his entrance. The evening
festivities had officially begun.

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