"Surely." The Princess answered, offering her arm.  "Would the kind young Hisuka...boy, care to escort me?" She giggled playfully.  "Although there is someone that I would very much like to introduce you to.  I think you would like her very much, if you don't mind."  She added, speaking of Sofia whom she'd been dying to talk to since she'd risen this evening.<br/><br/>Out in the grand hall, Eurich had bade Sofia goodbye and took a seat next to his the head of the Hisuka family, this seat was very close to his parents, but still close enough that he could be contacted by either them or Ijemaru when the time arose.  He bent his long, elegant neck over the slumbering victim and prushed the ravenous black hair from his face.  It cast a glossy blue sheen where the light touched it at his temples and at his back.  The warm blood felt wonderful, a grand temparary distraction from all the rest of the competition.<br/><br/>There was one in his family who was certainly not distracted with gaiety. Thothcapel had given instructions from her seat via a slip of parchment passed through a courtly fan gesture.  Her cheif eunuch had handed her the fan with the paper slipped inside detailing the findings of the day's investigations.  The note, though she did not know it, was very similar to the one Ijemaru had recieved earlier in the evening.  A few house names were listed as large threats, the account of Lord Butches' death, and a few of the attempts on her daughters lifew were all written on the back of the spread instrument.  The queen read as she slowly wafted  the fan before her face.  To anyone who was not watching, it simply appeared that she was idly fanning herself in the midst of the heat of the crowd.<br/><br/>After a long while of fanning, she passed it to her maid, which meant that they were to proceed with the sweep of rooms whilest the vampires were nearly all in the dining hall.  They were to take not only their satchels full of forbidden tools, but they took brooms and pails as well, giving them the cover of cleaning the hallways outside and in.  They were instructed to feign ignorance of the activities of other servents, or whether or not they even existed.  The servents of the house of the Royal Family were upkeeping the castle, no more no less.<br/><br/>If Thothcapel had indeed given the fan back to her cheif eunuch, it would mean that they were to hold off their search and assemble downstairs where the eunuch had further instructions for later.