Event The Fall Ball (Costume Party) Closed

How would she get all the masks off everyone? It was an interesting question, and Cassie took a moment to think before she answered. "Invisibility cloak? Or... Wassit called... pol-juice potion?"

When she mentioned the awesome-sounding costume party, Charles stopped walking, and began to breathe heavily. Cassie looked over at him and frowned. "You okay?" she asked, concerned, reverting back to English as she often did when worried. Her parents often told her to speak English and French equally, so as to never forget either, and the McGregor-Martins spoke a mixture at home, but English was the language Cassie used automatically. French took thinking about.
She put her hands on her friend's shoulders and looked into his eyes. "Breathe, okay?" she ordered, before retracting her grip.

"Wait, what?!" Cassie said with a frown as Charles began to walk away, walking backwards. "I-"
The girl was torn between staying with her friend, and going to a place she would enjoy. But Charles seemed to make up her mind for her and turned away. "Charlie-" she called, wanting to say something but unsure what.
As the Durmstrang boy walked away, Cassie turned towards the entrance and made her way out, waving at her friend Scarlett on the way.

Cassie Heather entered the costume party by herself, feeling a strange mixture of excitement and letdown. Let's make the most of it, she thought. Anything, surely, was better than the masquerade ball, with its stuffy atmosphere and posh purebloods. The muggleborn's eyes sparkled with delight as she was told about the tricks, and immediately went over to the table of treats.

But there was just so much to do! Cassie spun on the spot, trying in vain to figure out what was happening. The room was packed, no-one seemed to know what was going on, and there was an unmistakable sense of joy in the room. Cassie inhaled deeply. This was what she liked.

She noticed a crowd of chocolate frogs bounding through the crowd, laughed, and bent down to pick one up before biting its head off. Sorry, little guy. There was even a food fight going on, and Cassie laughed in astonishment. She was sorely tempted to go and join in (it wasn't like she cared about the dress she wore anyway) but soon saw someone she recognised.

A girl she was pretty sure was Bella Rosier was next to a boy she didn't recognise, and Cassie frowned as she watched them. The girl then broke off and went over to the pumpkins. Cassie went to join her, and sat next to her on the floor with a complete disregard for how dirty her skirt might get. "Hey, Princess, didn't think you were really one for costume parties," Cassie said in a mix of light jest and confusion, pulling a pumpkin towards herself and pushing her rosary bracelet further up her wrist. The Bella she knew was more one to float in the ball with a date, not carve pumpkins by herself at a costume party. Maybe she had a secret side to herself that Cassie didn't know about? That would certainly be a welcome change. "Or pumpkins, to be honest," the muggleborn added, picking up a saw and gliding it through the top of the pumpkin, looking rather surprised at how easy it was. She then reached in and began pulling out pumpkin seeds and dripping them into a bucket, getting her hands covered in the process.

Interacting with @Lucia Fox 's Cassie
Mentioning @Aemadall Zarcovich

Edit: Soon to be also interacting with @Alexa Mackenzie after response from @Lucia Fox

Semi open to interactions - Owl first (:
Interacting with: @Jess Malters, Andrew Lycan (Played by @Rose Moon), @Elisabeth Erner, Gregorí Erkens (Played by @Ginevra Tsuchiya )
Mentioning: N/A
Outfit:

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”Thank you so so much” Akari responded humbly to Elisabeth’s compliment about her dress. Cinderella’s dress... What a sweet comparison that was.

Glad that the lot of them had agreed to go with her to get something from the table Akari made her way over and once she arrived she made a b-line toward the butterbeer and reached out for a glass of the creamy golden beverage and then immediately brought it to her lips, but very carefully, making sure nothing would spill. Imagine that, spilling the drink all over her fancy blue dress. Akari shuddered at the thought. What a catastrophe that would be... and even the idea of it was awfully embarrassing. She was so engrossed in worrying about making a mess she wasn't paying attention to the fact that Gregori and Elisabeth were off speaking in Spanish... or anything else for that matter, until Jess posed that question.

She nearly choked on her drink while her face turned a light shade of crimson as Jess leaned over and whispered in her ear. She lowered the cup while licking her lips for the remainder of the drink as she gazed into the rest of the foamy liquid, intent on not making eye contact with her friend since she wasn’t exactly sure what to answer. ”Well... I...“ She replied taking her sweet time to get the full sentence out in the hope that something would come up and she didn’t have to complete it. As luck would have it she saw Jess grabbing one of those suspicious looking desserts giving her the perfect opportunity to change the subject. Although she made a promise to herself that she would tell Jess everything eventually.
”Wait! Careful I think those caused— She stopped, it was too late and Jess had already popped a chocoball into her mouth. Akari’s eyes widened slightly waiting to see if something would happen.

She still had an expression that looked quite concerned as Drew came back over to them
”I know right, it's delicious. I think it might just be one of my favourite drinks” She told him but was a tad distracted from still examining Jess.
After Drew told her and Jess that the other pair decided on leaving the costume party Akari nodded then briefly peeled her eyes away from her friend and glanced over to the couple and then waved back at Elisabeth before turning to answer Drew. “I think, if it’s alright, I’ll just finish my drink and then we can go join them?”

This girl certainly looked like Bella Rosier, and sounded like her too, but Cassie couldn't shake the feeling that there was something distinctly un-Bella-ish about her. As the muggleborn listened to the other girl, she continued to scoop seeds from her pumpkin. It was taking longer than she had thought it would, but she was faster than some of the other students, who seemed to be worried about getting their hands messy. Cassie Heather McGregor-Martin, on the other hand, had no such qualms, and was completely satisfied in covering her palms in pumpkin.

"I'm surprised you haven't run off screaming yet," Cassie said with a little sideways on look at 'Bella'. "Isn't that what you lot do when faced with us 'unsavoury mudblood scum'?" The said 'unsavoury mudblood scum' pondered this for a second. "Or maybe it was just 'mudblood scum', I don't remember. Or 'scummy mudblood'? They're all the same to me." It was true; Cassie barely had time to pay attention with the insults purebloods threw at her, what with all her other activities. They weren't very imaginative, anyway. The least they could do, in Cassie's opinion, was come up with some interesting insults for once.

Realistically, however, Cassie didn't know Bella Rosier's thoughts on blood purity, seeing as the two hadn't spoken very much, but the other girl often hung around with the popular purebloods at Beauxbatons, which lead Cassie Heather to believe that she shared their views.

@Andrew Vance

Interacting with
@Jack Burnett @Jake Morris
Mentioning
@Pericles Dralt @Jo Morgan @Persephone Barret
Open to Interaction

Ruka had heard the compliment thrown at him by the Eagle Costumed boy he didn't think he could recognise from anywhere, but the only reaction elicited from him was an ungraceful snort and the shake of his head. All compliments were better directed at his brother anyway who had come up with the concept in the first place, so Ruka didn't think he could even answer with any genuine gratitude.

Instead he had made his own path between people, into the midst of the crowd until he had managed to come to a halt next to Jack, who clearly had no regrets about putting his older brother into a dress for this very public school event. On the contrary, he seemed positively delighted with the whole situation, floating a few inches above the floor as he threw a candy into the laughing dark haired girl's mouth after greeting Ruka gleefully.

"Madness sounds just about right," the Gryffindor mused, gaze drifting across the blonde girl he was sure he recognised correctly. Alice in Wonderland she was supposed to be then, loving and gentle as described by her creator. What a mask to hide behind. "Seems to me like you fit right in then." His attention returned to Jack, eyebrows raised. Madness, with all its awful connotations spoke of a lack of restrictions, no inhibitions, a world the way one dreamed to make it. Ruka could see his brother being drawn to that and making himself a home there. King of the Mad with his feathered crown and a wicked smile like that of Lucifer seconds before falling from Heaven.

It had been far from Ruka's mind to pull Jack from his natural habitat, but it seemed that the dark haired girl's quest for someone to help with her current condition of madness had caused the Slytherin to pursue his own premature departure, judging by the voice echoing in Ruka's head. He could have thought Jack had been speaking right into his ear had his mouth not been shut into the line of a bemused smile all the while.

Ah yes, I think it's about time for you to antagonise some more people at the second party of the night, he thought, accompanied by a light roll of his eyes as Jack turned his back to approach the next person who caught his interest.

This one, Ruka could actually safely recognise, and he was quick to catch up with his brother, feet dangling above the ground lazily as he steered the invisible broom the right way, just to poke the handle against Jack's ribs to let him know where it was in case he wanted to hop on at any point. "Does he?", he asked, eyeing Jake curiously in all his froggy glory. "I must've missed the one dressed up as an amphibian." Pulling some more glitter from the little bag around his neck, Ruka smiled lightly as he flew a little higher to shower the young frog-badger in some of the pixie dust before halting next to Jack again. "Enjoying your night, Jake?" he asked gently. "I should certainly hope so. With the help of this pixie dust, some happy thoughts might just make you fly!" He whispered the last part in the frog's direction as if it were some grand secret he was being told, then leaned back, both hands steadying himself on the broom handle. "Just be careful not to fly into too much trouble."

Eyes scanned the room for a moment, glanced at wayward chocolate frogs and the result of a small food fight. "Or into pumpkin guts, for that matter."

|Action|
- Hovering on an invisible broom
- Sprinkling Jake with pixie dust
- Looking stunning in a dress with wings and sparkly tights

Stats
~ Stamina: 7 ~ Evasion: 9 ~ Strength: 4 ~ Wisdom: 12 ~ Arcane Power: 6 ~ Accuracy: 7 ~

Abilities
~ Muggle Condiotion ~ Advanced Casting ~ Perfectionist ~