<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0080FF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">House of D'Aries</span><br/><span style="font-size: 130%; line-height: 116%;">Castle Asture</span></span><br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/4d346bf9-c817-405c-b853-1d680fc1dba7_zps5271719f.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/><br/><span style="color: #0080FF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Lord Alexander D'Aries</span></span></div><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="color: #FF8000">"I see..well excuse me if i'm being rude but if she can't see you for the kind man that you are then maybe she doesn't really deserve you? But I can't say much on the matter since I don't know this woman and you and I just met after all, if it matters you do seem kind to me,"</span></span>Marina said, giving him a smile. He gave a shrug,<span style="color: #0080FF"> "I like her because she's ambitious, beautiful, intelligent...or at least I thought she was. Some things have come up making me question my desire for her. She's recently run into some bad news and isn't quite handling it well. On one hand, I feel as if I can help her---on the other, she might be too far from help..." </span>Alexander seemed a bit troubled by that thought. The idea that he couldn't fix something, and especially not someone who had never liked him to begin with. He had always liked Danielle, always desired her--but was too cowardly to make a move. Now it was too late, and she had seemingly lost her mind.<br/><br/>Luckily, Marina changed the topic before Alexander became too lost in his mind again,<span style="color: #FF8000"><span style="font-style: italic">"I can see why you would find this so enjoyable. It reminds me of when I would sing and dance for my people at home, so many smiling faces and happiness. When my mother was back in her country she would do the same so I suppose you can say that I'm a lot like her. I have visited her country before and I hope to go back there someday,"</span></span>Marina said, seemingly wistful. Her face while she recalled fond memories seemed serene, yet a bit sad. Perhaps he was reading far too much into it, but it seemed to him that she felt like an outcast among the people of Erathia. She seemed comfortable enough in her own skin, however, causing him to think that she was fine in her own lands--just being in Ipale was a bit different. He understood that feeling. Back at home, the women were all over him--in Ipale, well, they still kind of were, but not the one he wanted.<br/><br/>It really made him question whether he seriously wanted Danielle or not. He had thought he did, but the more he looked at Marina, the more he realized there were better women out there than Danielle. It wasn't that he necessarily wanted Marina all of the sudden, it was just that she reminded him that there were better people out there to be had than to be chasing after a woman who was questionably sane.<br/><br/><span style="color: #0080FF">"Your mother sounds like a lovely woman, just like you. I imagine you have a very captive audience when you dance,"</span>Alexander said, unable to stop himself from letting the flirty line come out. It was clear he was just being friendly.