<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>Greeting Benjamin, welcoming Avicia<br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Avicia, Benjamin, Travers<br/><br/><strong>Content Warning:</strong><em>None</em><br/><br/>Andrea watched the reactions of the lovely blonde to Travers’ approach with great interest, nodding with the most casual sensuality and grace imaginable in response to the lovely bow and gesture that the woman offered her way.  Such manners were all too often lacking in the Bazaar itself, though of course Celeste required all to maintain a certain level of discourse and behavior, though that was ruled as much by fiery passion as polite consideration, as Snogflog and her new suitor had so aptly shown.  The woman possessed a certain air about her, a curiosity of the mind and soul, and no doubt of the body.  Physical curiosity was hardly a rare thing in Celeste’s establishment, the clientele more than fully suffused with erotic yearnings and the Brides, Courtesans and Staff alike, offered such pleasures and fantasies made incarnate that those yearnings were merely the beginning, the start of what would unfold and envelop a client upon their night there.<br/><br/>The gnomes were putting the place back together, Psyche and her fortunate prey, his will so elegantly purloined and purchased with her eyes and seductive mind, had departed for elsewhere, while Benjamin entered with a cadre of young ones, mere morsels to the Brides, but a night of the life for the young fellows, even if they were merely lucky enough to find favors given by the Brides still in training, or perhaps even just some of the training devices that the House possessed.  Seeing that Travers was getting rather busy, and with Celeste making her way out of the Great Room, for she had much to watch over in her palace of erotic pleasures, Andrea slipped from the stool where she was perched, striding over to the bar, long legs covering the space in a few steps, as she came upon Benjamin and the rather versatile and in demand Travers,<br/><br/>“What was the lady’s pleasure, Travers?” Andrea asked and as perfectly as always Travers repeated from memory the words of Avicia, not interpreting them for Andrea, but allowing her that privilege, and the knowledge he had gained.<br/><br/>“Two champagne cosmopolitans then, one with a twist of lemon the other with a touch of midori, Travers, in matching glasses if you will,” she told him and then turned to Benjamin, smiling in appreciation of his efforts, ones which though not always fully known to her in the details, seemed to have an enlivening effect upon the House, clients and staff both,  “Your compadres grow more deliciously tasty each time you bring a new one aboard, Benjamin, and so full of zest and eagerness.  So lovely to have you brighten our evening just begun, you will be staying and visiting before going off on another adventure, I imagine?” she commented and asked, his compatriots seemed to change from time to time, perhaps some turnover in the lot he hired and employed, perhaps different skills needed for acquiring different treasures, she wasn’t really certain.<br/><br/>With the drinks completed and set upon the tray, in the elegant stemware that Celeste had likely chosen herself, Andrea took one in each hand, leaving the tray and Travers, the latter to attend to Benjamin's immediate needs, nodding appreciatively to both.  She stayed with Benjamin some moments longer, hearing what he had to offer in the way of a verbal treat or two, and then glided across the room to the side of Avicia, even as Celeste slipped fully from sight, moving one step to Andrea’s left to arrive in front of, and to one side, of the glowing and anxious blonde,<br/><br/>“Lady Avicia, welcome to the One Night Bride, and to any and all pleasures and delights we can offer to sate both your curiosities and desires.  A drink for you, choose either, one has a bit or tartness, that is on the left, and the other a hint of melon liqueur, both quite chilled and not sweet or strong, and then again, not too lacking in taste or strength either, as you seem to me to be a woman who possesses both of those qualities,” she offered, the drinks in her hands could be taken without the sharing of a touch, flesh to flesh, or with, as Avicia chose.<br/><br/>Looking towards the barely visible exit, the Great Room was so elegantly and cleverly designed that certain entrances and exits were almost invisible to those who did not know here to look, allowing grandly mysterious comings and goings,<br/><br/>“Celeste has much to do this eve, though I am quite certain that you can find her again in a time if that is your desire, but until then, would you share a seat and a tale or two with me whilst we celebrate the brilliant newness of your presence here among us.  I am certain that I can speak clearly and, well, loudly seems not very apropos to her style, but perhaps clearly and appreciatively on Celeste’s behalf, to welcome and honor you as our guest.  Please, if you would, that sofa nearest the wall draping seems a quiet place to get to know something of you, and to answer any queries and requests you may have,” Andrea offered, taking the drink not chosen by Avicia and pressing it to her lips, sipping it and claiming it with her mouth in a way that only a courtesan could make such a simple act indeed become a claiming, and a marking, as a tiny imprint of her lipstick adorned the glass’s rim when she finished tasting it.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, her hazel orbs never moved from gazing upon Avicia in a manner that was both thrilled in itself to drink Avicia in even more deeply than she had the bubbly libation, and one that reassured her that her beauty and inherently gentle glamour was quite fitting for the establishment the lady had entered.<br/>