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"I'm guessing it was tricked?"

The snow crunched under the heel of Nyx, as she approaches the manor. The young lady is in a Violet Empire waist dress, half of her face is covered by purple and white. The small invite floated up to Nyx's eyes, yep, this is the address.

Nyx was not alone, as in the lady's hands was the head of snowmen. Size of a basketball, two pieces of coal for eyes, and five pieces of coal to form a smile. And yes it's made of snow.

Nyx and her snowmen's head friend followed the sound of music walked into the ballroom.

"We have another guest, though the multiple duchesses should leave, until we have only one."

There's a short while of Duchess' haggling with each other over whose rose is which rose, as the three not-from-this-reality roses get passed around and inspected. Eventually, though the three extra Duchess' depart, waving goodbye to the assembled guests.

"Bye other ones!"

The Duchess sighs in relief, slumping down into a chair behind her and putting a hand to her head. "My heavens, what a night!"

"I can agree with that,"

Elliot was not quite prepared for the slump, losing their balance and tumbling down behind the chair, landing on the ground in a heap. "I've had worse," they spoke from somewhere on the floor.

Wander walks over, "need assistance?"

"I'm fine..." Elliot said, sitting upright and twitching their ears. "I'm a demon. A demon who can safely jump over 2 metres into the air. A little tumble like that is nothing."

"Alright, I was just trying to be nice..."

Still grinning softly behindt the mask, Light motioned for the Wyverian to follow her and approached the remaining Duchess. "For your trouble, we took the liberty of getting a little... compensation from the master of words", she said, reaching for the one rose in her waistband that wasn't gold trimmed and offering it to her. "He must have just... dropped it" she said, her voice the picture of the most perfect innocence. "And like the saying goes... finders keepers."

pan went over to the duchess and looked at them, " do you happen to have any extra rose seeds, I will like to grow one myself" he asked as them as he smiled

"Thank you very much," says the one extra Duchess who had not yet received a flower. She curtsies deeply to Light. "I don't know what would have happened to my home without the help of the wonderful guests at this party. I wish you truly the best evening one can imagine." And with that, we are down to just the one Duchess, who nods, echoing the other Duchess' words from her place slumped in a chair. "Yes, truly, my gratitude goes out to all of you."

"You're quite welcome", Light assured the other Duchess, chuckling. "In truth it was a fun exercise of wits!" She turned to Wyverian. "And I had good partners in crime too!"

The Wyverian raised hand contently. "Please. It was your idea! I'm glad we could get this sorted out before the night ends."

" so everything is okay? phew I can finally play in peace" he said as he brought out his guitar again.

"This was an interesting party to say the least," Wander said, "Granted it wasn't under your control, but I'm glad I showed up"

The fiddler picked through some of the delightful looking treats to be had. He may not require such food, but he could certainly still enjoy it. Some items almost seemed too pretty to eat, too. Almost.

The Duchess laughs gently. "I'm never quite sure what my invitations will bring each year... Though this has been a highly unusual party, I will admit! Perhaps we should celebrate saving our celebration? Who would like to dance?"