Patrick wasn’t trying to be coy with Kiri, but she wasn’t falling for any of his charms on business time so he let himself be dragged across the floor and through the balcony doors out onto the balcony.  Al the way people trying to stop Kiri to talk to her or some trying to talk to him but being cut short by Kiri.  He enjoyed being around her when she was like this, he didn’t have to do any of the silly social etiquette rules, just let her do the talking and look handsome.<br/><br/>As they came through the door he peered out at the skyline of the city and took a deep breath of the outside air, he wouldn’t call it fresh by any standards.  Growing up and playing in and around Macgregor castle taught him what fresh air was and there was none of that here in California, at least not the parts he had been to yet, but it was better than all the smoke inside.  He also looked around for the designer that Kiri was supposed to be introducing him to, but the only person out here was the dame leaning against the balcony.<br/><br/>Kiri started talking to her and he looked up at the stars for a moment until he realized that Kiri was introducing them to each other, that’s when it hit him.  She was the designer; he was expecting some old shriveled up elite who had a scarf wrapped around their neck, not some thing as beautiful as her.  Yes he knew more beautiful girls, he is in the industry of beautiful people, but for a non mega-model she could fill his dance ticket for a song or two.<br/><br/>Her Sapphire dress was stunning, better than anything he had seen on the catwalk in some time, but it wasn’t that so much that caught his attention, it was her dark blue-gray eyes that stared back into his as they caught each other. Her curved face framed by an errant lock of hair that has come looses from its restraints.<br/><br/>The two girls spoke a bit and Kiri introduced them with a warning to him that it was his time to impress, not hers. He was about to reach out and kiss her like all the girls here prefer when she curtsied to him.  No one here had done that yet and it reminded him of the girls back home and the old world customs, so instead he bowed to her and gently grasping her hand brought it to his lips kissing the back of her hand.<br/><br/><strong>“Pleasure tae meet ye Tali, Ah must say that the dress ye ur wearing is beautiful, who designed such a work ae art.  Ah must add that ye fit in it perfectly, as if it wer custom designed jist fur ye.”</strong><br/>