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[b][u] Aliquam: Tobias’ Gala [/b][/u]

Aria reeled back with a short shriek as the room was engulfed in piercing bright light, sending the people inside stumbling and staggering. Judging by the sounds of panic outside the room, it seemed that the perpetrator had managed to blind the entire mansion. She pressed her palms against her eyes, trying to rub away the spots burned into her retinas only to bump into a screaming patron. 

[i] "Trixie?! Aria? You two okay?"[/i]

Somehow she managed to hear Syed’s voice over the pandemonium, and stumbled towards where she thought the mage was. “I’m fine,” she shouted over the ruckus of toppling chairs and people falling over themselves. She could swear she ended up stepping on someone accidentally, but eventually managed to find and regroup with Syed and Trixie. 

By now her eyesight had started to return, and she peered blurrily at the broken pottery shards and other various broken furniture pieces scattered about the room. She didn’t quite want to imagine how much it would cost to replace and fix everything, wincing as something crunched underheel. She could make out Moira’s shape by the doorway and the three made their way out of the room, only to be faced with a very unexpected scene.

[i] “I am the legendary thief, The Masked Phantom!!”[/i]

She stared up in surprise at the figure illuminated from below. So this was the infamous thief who had been appearing newspaper headlines? Normally Aria would be rather upset due to a night out being interrupted, but…

“He’s kinda cute,” she observed, blinking as he vanished with a flurry of feathers from the chandelier. She reached out, watching as a white feather drifted into her palm with a small grin. Knowing Estelle, they would be trying to darn hardest to get to the scene tomorrow to try to catch the thief and she was feeling very much excited. She gave Trixie a grin and a nudge.

“Looks like you got your supervillain after all, huh?”