<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/6a/ONB_-_Wyatt_-_Andrea.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:  Andrea Follete (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=266077.msg13135651#msg13135651)</strong><br/><br/><strong>COURTESAN</strong><br/><br/><strong>Situation:</strong>Getting a drink and doing some people watching<br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><br/><strong>Content Warning:</strong><em>None</em><br/><br/>Andrea walked into the Great Room form the dressing area, another night of being what her Mother had always desired she would be…a bride.  Madame Celeste’s establishment was simply the perfect place for Andrea to now practice her craft and enjoy the fruits and experiences thereof, having been a Courtesan at the One Night Bride for five of her ten years in her chosen vocation and avocation.  Arriving for a fresh start after losing the only woman she ever loved, and could never have, Celeste’s sparklingly brilliant reputation, powerful presence and the woman herself, they were all perfect.  And yet, true perfection was found in the name of the pleasure palace that was now her home.<br/><br/>That her Mother had always been so against Andrea’s choice in life, despite her own history as a Courtesan, oft befuddled the willowy blonde beauty.  Her Father, like her Mother, practically defined the term sensuality, it was a very large part of why they had been drawn so irresistibly to one another, why he had paid such a fortune to pay off her remaining contract so that he could bring her home to his world and take her as his bride.  Truly, she, like most of her class, almost a caste-like social system predominated her homeworld, would choose to follow in one of her parent’s footsteps.  Though she understood that her Mother had not become a Courtesan out of voluntary choice, as Andrea had, would she really have preferred her only daughter to follow in the footsteps of her Father?  It was not as if Andrea were anything less than a Daddy’s girl growing up, but though the man worked for their government and was considered a warrior of the most revered degree, it was quite a bit of wallpapering over what his vocation actually was…an assassin, and in incredibly renowned one at that.<br/><br/>The physical gifts that cybernetics and caste-driven selective breeding had blessed those of Andrea’s world that would be considered her peer group led quite strongly to their taking up the more physical and martial of sports, arts and careers.  Andrea herself was strong, fast and, if she needed to be, quite deadly, but never by choice, nor by assignment, rather only in defense of herself or others would she strike.  Walking into the Great Room, she entered just in time to see Snogflog, such an outrageous and outgoing beauty, an utterly incomparable in Andrea’s mind, hard tossing a rather handsome and apparently frisky fellow through the air and a table.  The verdant-fleshed beauty had the undeniable joy and panache to be both warrior and Courtesan, and to wear those titles with equal pride and aplomb, unlike Andrea, whom would kill, and had several times done so, for the Bazaar was not an easy place to live within and stay that way, with cold and ruthless efficiency, seeking only to keep the death she dealt out as painless as possible.  Andrea took no joy in it, while she reveled in being a bride, one joined to a partner or pair anew each evening.<br/><br/>Looking about she grinned at Madame Celeste looking so ravishing and barely even chagrined by the rambunctious activity that the night was starting off with.  Chantal was there ahead of her, a true gem of beauty and radiance, she was one of Andrea’s favorites.  Psyche moved within the room as if somehow the room moved around her and seemed to have her jade green eyes set upon a powerfully handsome suitor this evening, her skills at setting her lovers off balance being a marvelous thing to watch and learn from.  Velen, though not her own taste in partner, was beyond question sexual pleasure made incarnate, and she nodded to him in quietly subtle fashion just as the loud bang and concussion sent Snogflog and her adventurous pursuer off on another aerial adventure.<br/><br/>Andrea was just far enough from the epicenter of the blast that she left the force of its shockwave wash over her, admittedly a wonderfully bracing new experience, and a waiter walking in front of her was knocked askew in Andrea’s direction.  With the speed and strength that were hers by both nature and cybernetic nurture, she caught the man in her left hand, and the drink that had flown off of his tray in her right,<br/><br/>“A night starting with a bang, Travers,” Andrea mused to the adorably cute and lithe waiter, one of Fae blood, at least half she estimated, one of the many staff beings, and of course gnomes, that made the Bride run with such erotic precision and purpose.  Moving the drink in her other hand a few exacting inches to the left, Andrea caught in the glass the fruits impaled on the small plastic sword that had come undone from the drink when the blast had struck Travers.  Bringing it to her crimson lips, she took a sip of the sweet and strong concoction, one that tasted like iced tea, but was surely more than that, then turned and lifted Travers from leaning against her for support until his full balance was regained and kissed his cheek,<br/><br/>“I think it best of you fetch that client a fresh drink, don’t you, but this will do nicely for me, thank you,” she winked at him and shared a smile with him as he nodded to where Semele was standing and winked back at her.  Moving off to find a table, her favorites had the tall chairs that allowed Andrea to show off her seemingly endless legs to their most seductive effect, she smiled coyly as she surveyed the landscape to see how Celeste and the rest of the Staff and Courtesans were reacting to the blast and to the owner of one of their direct competitors making such a grand and gorgeous appearance, even as Snogflog and her hopelessly beguiled young man left for a more private locale, knowing that his night would no doubt end with an even more fabulous and earth shaking bang than it began with.<br/>