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[b][u]Academy of the Arts: Dalia’s Group[/b][/u]

A hundred blinding flashes later, Moira finally let go.

Xan rubbed at her eyes then straightened up as Dallia and Simon began to converse. He asked them to drop by the photography exhibit later then rushed towards Dylan. Was he always this chipper? It seemed as if he were on a sugar-high. The girl chuckled at the bouncy photographer then nodded, "we'll try to look at as many of the exhibits as we can. Everything looks great and it must have taken a lot of time and effort." She nodded her head then turned to look at both Moira and Syed.

"How were the sculptures?" She was guessing they were just as amazing as the paintings. Xan glanced at the window Moira and Syed had climbed out off, but neither Angel nor Marcus were there. Her eyes flitted to another painting as she listened to Dallia and Simon talk, things were definitely getting more lively now.

Moira asked what they'd be looking at next and Xan gave the berserker a smile. "Who knows, maybe they have an exhibit dedicated to weapons." A few times in her life, she had seen people hang fancy weapons above their fireplace. Some had been pretty to look at, so perhaps that was a form of art too. The metallurgist who had saved her back in the day was a tinkerer and was quite fond of metalwork, so whenever Xan went over she'd see all kinds of made-up or modified weapons hanging on the walls or propped up against the doors.

In a sense, it had always been a kind of art too.

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Trixie tossed her costume onto his face and the next thing he knew, he was flailing around in darkness.

"I am not defeated yet," he let out a wail. "Noooo, how can this be!" Lucien began to strike ridiculous dying poses only to have the dress and cape yanked away from his face. "This isn't the last you've seen of me heroes!" He narrowed his eyes at both Lute and Trixie only to have Aria yank his helmet off. Before he knew it, he was costume free. He shot her what was supposed to be a dark glare, but failed rather horribly. "I'll have my revenge heroes and when I do it shall be sweet." He gave them all a little bow then made his way towards the illusionist and Keeva.

The sound room was up next, yeah? He wondered what kind of neat things they'd see there. Heh, maybe they'd get to try out the instruments too. Now that'd be pretty cool.

Aria muttered something about the hat and a play and it took awhile for the pun to sink in, but when it did, Lucien nearly choked. The man doubled over laughing then gave his friends a silly grin and two thumbs up. "That was a good one," he scrunched up his nose and suppressed another laugh. "Kind of a [i]sour[/i] joke though."