Elsewhere amongst the assembly, energetic as Shakira with even more alluring curves, Felicity Moreno relished the beginning of an evening in her element.  She'd picked out a group of guests and young Vagabonds, some of them shy folks just barely brave enough to dance, others amongst the fairest and boldest in attendance.  With the first little songs, she'd begun the invitation, gathering the men and maids around her with looks of playful flirtation and hips that, as a different dancer put it, didn't lie.<br/><br/>(http://imstars.aufeminin.com/stars/fan/sofia-vergara/sofia-vergara-20080130-369808.jpg)<br/><br/>The Fairest of Them All favored Paul with a smile as he passed, enjoying that there were some in her life who could see through her masque, too the gold burnishing her soft brown skin, the inhuman perfection of what was--with the masque--a mortal's body fit to evoke and then sate the lusts of particularly virile pagan gods.