Lady M

4) Strange

Welcome back lady's and gentlemen,
Tonight is a very important night it's the first ball of the season and might I just say what I've seen of these lovely ladies has been absolutely gorgeous.
Well most of them have been Miss.Teribeth Olicath of the water district has been awfully ugly to her younger sister Odette, tumor has it Teribeth ripped apart everything in her sisters room from dresses to her bed resulting in Lady and Lord Olicath moved the young Odette into the stables.
How absolutely scandalous.
Moving on a young fireling Adella Wuriplit burned her maid apparently on purpose, the fireling apparently was having a temper tantrum about not getting the color dress she wanted so she threw a fireball at her maid, her maid being from the water district and not the fire district got a burn starting on her neck and going all the way down her arm, proving what the Queen has been speaking about for years we should all just stick to our own districts and not intertwine.
It's fairly easy to paint a narrative that we shouldn't be allowed to marry between factions after all it has been fairly recently that it was allowed to marry between factions.
I can only wonder what the Queen is thinking right now after all her favorite motto is 'Firelings should only marry other Firelings, Water beings should only marry other Water beings, Air creatures should only marry other Air creatures.'
                             -Till next time 💋

Oh my I can only imagine what's happening in the palace right now, everyone knows what the Queen thinks about marriage between factions but she has always denied those rumors.

"Who do you think it is?" My brother Rubort whispers over to me we currently are in the carriage on the way to the fire district for the first ball of the season. I look to him and shrug while Callem sits across from us with father. Mother refuses to step a foot in the fire district after 'what they did to her'

"What district do you think they are from?" He whispers I'm not entirely sure I think they are from a district the second you marry into the Queens family you become districtliss same thing happens if you get a job in the palace, because that is a job for life and you can't leave.

"In my opinion I don't think it's someone from a district, whoever it is knows things about the Queen and her private conversations..." I'm looking him in the eyes by the time I finish talking her thinks about what I said and nods before giving me a smile "sometimes little sister I forget how smart you are, I think I'll have to agree with you." My father slaps him knees and stares down my brother

"Do not instigate your sister, she is a lady she does not need to be having ideas or reading that disgusting nonsense." He reaches over and grabs the paper out of my hands shaking his head as he looks out the window mumbling under his breath "no man will marry a woman with ideas or opinions."

I look away from my family and stare at my hands after a couple minutes of collecting myself "What do you think the fire district will be like? I know we go once every year but they have never been in charge of something so important." I am not targeting my question at anyone important but Rubort responds

"I don't know what would be worse them upstaging mother by actually making an exquisite ball or them making the worse ball ever." He is looking out the window as Callem stares between the two of us

"I thought the first ball of the season needed to upstage the first ball of the year before?" Oh poor baby Callem I give a tight lip smile before responding "It is however how do you think mother would respond to anyone telling her the fire district did the one thing she is good at better than her?" He proceed what I was trying to say and nodded leaning back against the railing in the carriage

Because of all the rumors about how hot it is in the fire district we decided to use the roofless carriage of course by doing that we are still succumbed to the cold air of our kingdom, the skin on my arm is prickly as the hair on my arms stand up we are getting close to the border of air and water. We still have to pass through the Water district to get to fire just barely we probably won't even spend longer than five minutes in the water district.

The carriage in front of us comes to a stop as the coachmen hands papers to a man they then get motioned through when we get closer to the border you can feel the warmth radiating off the barrier it's honestly so gorgeous, the barrier shimmers different pastel colors and it sparkles sometimes tiny bubbles will come out of the wall the bubbles look exactly like the wall it's just strange.

The man comes up to our carriage and I notice he has three muskets on him two in his boots and one in his hand as he speaks to the coachmen "I need to see that you have permission to leave." The coachmen nods and reaches under him I can't see the drawer but I hear him open it and then hear the papers as he hands them to the guard, the guard grunts and puts a small check on the paper I'm not sure where the pen came from he must have already been holding it but he gives the papers back and we continue moving.

"We won't need to stop again we will be riding against the water's barrier and immediately cross into the fire district, unfortunately the man who is hosting this ball lives in the middle of the district." A man is hosting the ball how strange my brothers must have been thinking the same thing as me because Callem snickers and gives me and Robort a look which me and him quickly also share.

I wonder what man would be willing to host the first ball of the season. I wonder if a man hosting a ball is strange for the Fire district to or if it's just strange for us

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