End-of-Year Prom

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END OF YEAR PROM

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Every year, as the school year comes to a close, Daybreak Academy holds its Prom, an immense gala for the students to dress in their finest clothing, dance, mingle, and make merry. This year’s prom theme, selected by the outgoing student council, is “The Unyielding Spirit of Man”. Held in Soleil’s performance center, the enormous stage has been pulled out to make a huge dance floor, with the seating rearranged around the floor on all sides for onlookers to mingle, eat, and enjoy the festivities.

In keeping with the theme, the hall is decorated with tributes to mankind’s ingenuity, with various exhibits tastefully marked with museum-like plaques surrounding it. Exhibits celebrating all manner of inventions from fire, to the written word, to spellcraft, runecraft, and flight, all are commemorated here.

Of course, no prom, or indeed any Daybreak event would be complete without food. While each exhibit serves as an educational tribute to mankind’s accomplishments, each station is also a themed food dish. The tribute to fire, for example, hosts a variety of roasts and barbecued meat of the finest cuts, while the agriculture exhibit holds a bevy of fresh fruits, vegetables, and salads. Some of these pairings are a bit of a stretch (the tribute to flight, for example, holds sandwiches and peanuts, a reference, perhaps to airline food) but all are made with the finest of ingredients.


A - So about that airline food?
Mingling at the banquet table is a good way to be social without worrying about stepping on anyone’s toes. While proms and the herald may dull the appetite for some, it would be a waste to let all the food go untouched.

While there are Faculty and Grad students volunteering to keep these particular drinks spike-free, they cannot be watching it the whole time. However, if one plans to do this - do not get caught.

B - Dance! Boogie Wonderland!
As part of the theme, the variety of music has expanded greatly from the usual prom fare - long as it’s danceable, it’s being played, and sometimes the results are jarring going from a disco classic to a regal waltz, or a crooner love song to a bouncy k-pop chart topper that will get stuck in one’s head. Can you keep up with the mad pace? It’s enough to get even the most seasoned dancer hopping mad.

Or will it be viva la music revolution to get some sanity on the dance floor?

C - A Collection of Wallflowers
Maybe socializing isn’t your thing, or dancing isn’t the kind of activity you enjoy. There’s plenty of seating around the room for you to shuffle into a corner and spend the evening holed up with a plate of food. And for those more interested in poking and prodding at the exhibits, there’s a few little themed trinkets and prizes hidden away for the keen-eyed. Elegant wands that produce sparkles, bubbles and smoke, miniscule instruments, sparklers and colorful torches that never go out (and notably can’t set anything on fire) - all made to produce flashy effects, to spice up your experience on the dance floor - or someone’s experience, anyway.

D - Wine and Beer
As is typical of Daybreak, there’s an open bar with rich, well-aged ales and wines from all over Europe. And it is, of course, open to just about everyone. After all, this is France! For those who want to take a bit of an edge off the night, their worries about what is to come, or just generally be more sociable, there is plenty of libation to help you get there. Just be careful, nobody’s going to be counting your drinks but you.

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Comments

[strings_theory]

[She's quiet again before she's just reaching for one of his hands, nothing bad, just a tight grip. Not meant to hurt, but it speaks a lot louder than her words do at this point, she's sure of that much.]

I know of a way I'm going to start, to try and see the past as how it is and leave way for what's ahead.

... Probably going to get in a lot of trouble for it, though.

[yokeye]

[Her grip is intense, not bone crushing, but something that makes him pay more attention to her words. There's emotion behind it.]

Will you tell me what it is?

[He's made so many bad decisions, and will again soon, because sometimes you have to do things. But it's always different when it's someone else. If it will get her hurt, in any way, he'll try and stop her.]

[strings_theory]

[It's not a good decision, she knows it's not, but it's something she feels she has to do for some sort of closure. Or just do in general, maybe not to the extent she's planning, but it just seems right to her.

Which is why she's hesitant to tell him for a moment.]

I... When we go on summer break, I'm going back to Florida for about a week to visit my mom. There's someone there I need to have... a chat with, you could say. [That's vague and vague when it comes to Jolyne is extremely dangerous.]

[yokeye]

[This is one time he maybe shouldn't be taking things at face value, but he is. He assumes the chat itself, talking to someone that she needs to have closure with, is what's having an effect on her.]

You can do this, Jolyne. I have faith in you. It will work out.

[He squeezes her hand.]

[strings_theory]

[That just confirms with her that that's the case. That's honestly for the best and she'll let him think that's exactly what she's going to do, it's fine.]

I hope so. But if I end up in deep shit when I get back, then at least you know why.

[Squeezing her hand is the best way to calm her down a bit, evidently, given she's returning it in kind.]

[yokeye]

I'm sure you'll be fine.

[He smiles, but he's wondering what will happen. If she's thinking there will be a fallout from a conversation, maybe he missed something.]

I'll await your return~!