<div class="floatleft">(https://www.dhresource.com/260x260s/f2-albu-g4-M00-CF-D7-rBVaEVm2dACAFqNkAAEahK7FXcs926.jpg/luxury-detail-gold-embroidery-quinceanera.jpg)</div><strong>Name</strong>Auden (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=276238.msg13580676#msg13580676)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Ballroom<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>open<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Auden had kept to the back of the room throughout the opening ceremonies. He was a complete stranger in the house and was not at all sure what to expect. Lucky for him, he cut a mighty fine female frame and so his costume seemingly gave him enough to hide behind while he felt around and gathered information. Mr. Burleson collected a wide assortment of looks along the way, some flirtatious, a few suspicious and almost all curious in some way. He remained silent through it all, returning the attention with a nod, a curtsy or a smile. He avoided the first few songs by keeping outside the ballroom so as not to be asked to dance but eventually his quest for knowledge brought him back into the grand hall.<br/><br/>At first, the fairy-costumed boy kept to the edges of the ballroom and slowly walked from small crowd to crowd as he listened to what gossip there was. Then he began to make a slow spiral inward, all the while keeping a mental key of each face and name he came across along the way. Only then, when he felt confident in his knowledge of the crowd gathered as well as the layout of the mansion, did he actually enter into the social picture. He made an amusing comment at one loose gathering and then stepped to the outskirts of the dance floor, eager to to get an idea of everyones' talents.