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Who: Anna and YOU
What: Getting to know you for the first time
Where: All around the castle [details inside]
When: February 25th

Anna really should have done this a long time ago. But there was no use sitting and mulling over this fact; she wanted to get to know more people, it was time to put herself out there and do so.

And so, Anna made it her mission to try and get around as much as possible. You could potentially run into her in the halls, dancing and swirling around like a dork in the ballroom, seeing if there was anyone who needed cheering up in the clinic, or... feeling awkward that she was the only one in a long, period-specific dress on the beach in the four seasons room.

Someone take mercy on this poor dork, because she's trying so hard to draw attention to herself.

(There was also a part of her felt drowsy and lethargic, but Anna was also someone who had more energy than the typical person. As such, the strange feeling sweeping the castle hadn't done much to curb her enthusiasm.)

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Danny yawns slightly as he walks down the hallway. What was going on today, anyway? Maybe he wasn't getting enough sleep?

...Always a possibility, considering he spent most of his nights as a ghostly superhero.

True to his usual luck, he nearly walks into a strange girl while he was busy yawning.

"Um, sorry about that?"

"Oof!"

Anna stumbles back, nearly tripping over her own dress, before catching herself and blinking.

"Oh. Um. It's alright...! Hey, are you okay? You look pretty worn out..."

He yawns again.

"Oh, I'm fine. Just tired, you know?"

"I see," she replied, nodding slowly. Come to think of it, she felt pretty run down herself all of a sudden...

"Didn't get enough shut eye...?"

"Eh, I got a few hours before patrol. That's normal. I don't know why I'm so tired all of a sudden."

After more than a year of being unable to tell a lie, Danny had reluctantly gotten used to the fact that he had no secrets here.

"I'm Danny, by the way."

"Mmm. Maybe you just didn't sleep well enough."

Anna smiled, and held out her hand. "I'm Anna. Nice to meet you, Danny."

"That's possible!." He laughs as he takes her hand.

"Nice to meet you Anna. Have you been in the castle long?"

"Uhm... a couple months now," she replied. "Just starting to try and get to know people now, though."

"Hey, you'll get used to it in no time. And you're lucky that its been pretty quiet the last few months."

"Yeah... speaking of quiet, how about things lately, huh? It's like the whole castle fell asleep..."

"Yeah, weird. And I already checked for mattress factories in town, so I know Nocturne didn't show up here."

Anna titled her head to the side.

"Nocturne...?" she asked. "What's a Nocturne?"

"Creepy ghost I knew back home. He kind of wanted to put everyone to sleep permanently so he could feed on their dreams."

Edited 2014-03-22 00:02 (UTC)

Wade isn't used to feeling this tired for no reason and she doesn't like it. She wants to be taking a walk outside or doing laundry or anything really, because on one hand she can't quite seem to get up to moving around too much, but on the other she's afraid if she sits down to do something like read a book she really will fall asleep like some people are. So she's just trying to keep moving and hoping for the best.

At the moment, she's shuffling past the ballroom on her way from the kitchen with a cup of coffee and a plate of cookies when she spots this girl twirling around.

"I wish I had that much energy..."

Anna stops, and turns, laughing nervously in Ward's direction.

"Ha ha, I'm sorry," she said. "I just... I feel like I'm on a mission, you know?!"

"What kind of mission is that?" she asked with a gentle tilt of her brow. She avoided another yawn by taking a sip of her coffee.

Anna straightened and did her best mock salute.

"Trying to get to know people, of course!"

Wade couldn't help but chuckle a little.

"Well, I guess that's one way to do it, though you might have a little trouble what with it being castle-wide naptime..."

Every once in a while Thorin will go to the ballroom to reminisce about the grander days of Erebor, especially when the castle saw fit to dress itself up in finery.

But he was not accustomed to seeing others there - especially not people who were twirling about like crazy folk...

Thorin just stared at the young woman, tilting a brow in a very 'judging you slightly' manner.

"...shall I...leave you be?"

Anna blinked, and then stopped, laughing nervously.

"Sorry!" she said. "I... I was just reminded of the castle back home. I always wanted to dance more in our ballroom, but... we didn't really hold many, err, balls..."

Thorin's brow tilts a bit higher.

"Which begs two questions," Thorin pointed out. "One: What is the purpose of having a ballroom without holding any festivities in it? And two: Yet you dance here when there's no ball here - what stopped you from dancing in an empty ballroom before?"

Anna... frowned a bit.

"Nothing did, actually, because I danced on my own a lot back home too. As for the other thing..."

A sigh.

"Our parents died, and... for reasons, the castle's gates were closed to outside visitors. We... didn't entertain guests for a very long time. It was just my sister, the servants, and myself..."

The King Under the Mountain gives a slight sigh, scratching the back of his neck. Well damn, now he feels sheepish. He hadn't meant to upset her, he had merely been curious.

"Forgive me, I...did not realize," Thorin's jaw set, annoyed at himself for being so brash.

There is a long pause, he is reluctant to admit this to a woman he's only just met, but he feels obligated after causing her such displeasure...

"I know what it's like...losing one's parents and not having many around for support."

"... I'm sorry," Anna said, looking down. "I... I didn't want to make you feel bad too, sir..."

She sighed and offered her hand.

"Let's start over. I'm Anna... and you are?"

Thorin reached up with one hand, waving off the apology.

"No need to apologize, you did nothing wrong, lass," he assured her.

He reached forward and gave her hand a firm squeeze.

"I am Thorin Oakenshield, son of Thrain, son of Thror, King Under the Mountain."

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sorry for the delay

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[really sorry for the delay here]

no worries :)

Ballroom

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