(To Elizabeth)<br/><br/>Arya visibly relaxed ever so slightly when it was revealed the girl was a reporter. So odd to bring a reporter in.. Did the girl know the truth of this place? Perhaps it was kind of them to offer a suitable dress for the young woman to wear on this night. The ginger girls features softened as she nibbled at her food. "I see." She finally said an almost apologetic tone for assuming the worst.<br/><br/>The girl jumped subtly when Elizabeth clapped her hands eagerly to answer Arya's forgotten question. Reflexively, she mirrored the woman's body language and leaned in with interest as she spoke of Vlad's plan to appear the following day. Her long lashes casted over her eyes, hiding her weariness but she did catch the sly smile on the blonde beauty's face. Of course Arya was curious as to why she seemed so amused but she sat back against her chair and didn't press on about the matter. Instead, she shoveled some food in her mouth, pacing herself but a little faster then she intended to eat- out of nerves of course.<br/><br/>The woman's efforts to ease Arya's nerves were not lost though. She relaxed her shoulders, sipped at her wine and was filling up from the buffet.<br/><br/>"A charity?" Arya gaped at her for a moment with delight. For she too was involved with a charity. Well it was years back where she helped women dress for success that suffered from a use to get them on the track of independence and into the work force.<br/><br/>"That is kind of you. I was once apart of a charity but unfortunately I couldn't give much.. I gave what I no longer wore- I was a broke college kid after all." She laughed then for the first time. She then realized that the woman before her probably could not relate... "But the women I met were always so thankful.." She mused for a moment with a soft smile on her face.<br/><br/>Shaking her head and letting a few of her red tresses fall out of their pins from her up do; she realized she had lost her self in thought for a few mere moments. It has been so long since she had been apart of a charity.. Since she had been out of Ignatius's home... Around other people that weren't Ignatius's servants. Of course these people were still deadly and she was planned to be given to Vlad to serve him, but still there was some joy to be found through this event.<br/><br/>"So,<em>His Grace</em>is missing his own party? Why is that if I may ask? You have many guest to entertain alone now."