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Sulleykar sent Anders away with nothing but a nod. Being the perfect gentleman he seemed to be, Anders bowed to her. Kiara couldn’t help but notice that he smelled [i]strange[/i], earlier she had pegged him for a dragon, but now she couldn’t be sure. Sulley spoke up, explaining how his night had gone so far and that he had tried a human food called ‘pizza’. Interestesting, so he wasn’t natively from the human realm either, then?
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“I could always make it worse.”[/color] he had replied to her question. Kiara smirked, ‘worse’ for most people could still be considered ‘better’ by a faerie such as herself. The whole place could burst into flames, or be invaded by a group of bloodthirsty raiders, and Kiara would still rate it at five stars for being ‘entertaining’. Let us not forget that pain and fear are also delicious emotions to sustain yourself with. Speaking of emotions, something must have loosened the dragon’s lips because, for the first time since KiKi had met him, he started revealing things about himself. Kiara listened and watched him intently as he spoke, her arms still crossed behind her back. 

[color=9e0b0f]“...I retained my emotions. The only reason you have not fed off of them is due to how well I can hide and suppress them.” [/color]he said. Kiara feigned a frown for a moment [color=ed1c24]“Are you admitting to knowingly starving a poor, malnourished faerie?”[/color] she held out a bony arm for emphasis. Her gaunt frame was actually not part of her glamour; Since she hadn’t been to the human realm yet, Kiara had never felt sated by the emotions she fed off of. The humans that were trapped in the court weren’t the same as unsuspecting mortals, they didn’t feel quite as strongly anymore. [color=ed1c24]“That doesn’t matter, though. I will catch you off guard someday, and then I’ll get to taste all the strength that a dragon feels with.”[/color] the smirk returned to her face, replacing the false pout she previously wore.

First he talked about emotions, and then he moved onto family. He sighed and looked over at Anders, [color=9e0b0f]“It was stupid of me to have ever saved him. But at the same time I’m glad I did…” [/color]Kiara’s eyes followed Sulley’s gaze to Anders and then looked back at Sulleykar.  [color=ed1c24]“Saved him? But, what kind of dragon needs saving?” [/color]she lowered her voice as if her next question was a big taboo, [color=ed1c24][i]“Is he weak?”[/i][/color] Sulley continued to explain his issues with family until he abruptly stopped and snorted out a puff of smoke before turning to walk away. Disappointed, Kiara wore a genuine frown now, she wasn’t a girl who was used to being turned down, and she did not like the feeling. As if reading her mind, the dragon turned around, took her by the arm, and spun her hands free to grasp. [color=9e0b0f]“Come with me.”[/color] he said as he pulled her towards the dancefloor. 

So much for playing the coy game of cat and mouse. Kiara had become fond of the chase, but here was a grand opportunity that she wouldn’t throw away. Dancers had cleared out a circle for Sulley and herself as they danced to a classical track. For once in her life, Kiara felt the eyes of every person looking at her, and she even felt… [i]embarrassed?[/i] The precision of the dragon’s steps were enough to distract her from her own thoughts, though. Kiara was hyper-aware of the way his hand felt on her waist while her own was perched on his shoulder. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, half turn, twirl. The light’s in the room skittered across her eyes as he spun her around. Between the extravagance of the room, and the dance itself, this moment was magical, and Kiara felt spellbound. [color=9e0b0f]“You’re pretty good, for a faerie”[/color] he chuckled before twirling her once again. She felt like the pretty little dancer in the music box that her guardians had brought to her from the human realm. [color=ed1c24]“And you’re quite graceful, for a big brute.”[/color] she teased, calling him the same thing that she had after he had held her up by her throat at the feast. Silence fell between them as they danced. Sulley was feeling some emotion and not bothering to hide it from her, but it wasn’t one that she really recognized, and then he spoke up once more. [color=9e0b0f]“K-Kiara. What is this feeling? Is this your doing?”[/color] he asked with an almost accusatory tone. [color=ed1c24]“What? N-no. My faerie charm only really works on humans, and even then…”[/color] she blushed and looked down a little [color=ed1c24]“I’m not very good with my magick yet.”
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They finished the dance in silence once more. People clapped and whistled and, without even thinking, Kiara instinctively curtsied before her audience as she would back home. She turned to look back at her dancing partner. The magick of the moment was still there, and Kiara felt like she was floating. It was then that she noticed that his wings were out too. Kiara tucked her own wings together as she looked up at him. He licked his lips and bit on his bottom lip with no teeth showing but a furrowed brow before leaning into her. Like most small animals, faeries had high body temperatures and very fast heart rates, especially if they were flying; and inn that moment, Kiara's heart was fluttering so fast she thought it might burst straight through her chest. Their lips were millimeters apart and Kiara could smell smoke, as if she were holding her nose directly above a flame. She closed her eyes and waited, but the moment never came. Instead, she was pushed behind Sulley as he stared at some tall stranger. And then she smelled it, fear, [i]Sulley’s[/i] fear. It was a mouth-watering aroma ,and Kiara struggled not to be drawn to it like a moth to a flame. She tried focusing on the stranger instead because, what in all the realms could make a dragon feel fear? 

The war chief didn’t raise a weak daughter, and her mother’s hot-headedness boiled in Kiara’s own blood, so she stepped out from behind Sulleykar, standing by his side now. Her eyes had gone from red to straight black and her hair floated off of her shoulders as magick radiated from within her. The main reason she had come to this school was to try to control her magick. Like her mother, Kiara was thought to possess strong elemental magick that was closely tied to her emotions. It mimicked nature itself: wild, unpredictable, and most of all, hard to control. Whoever this stranger that Sulley feared was, he had somehow managed to make this night [i]worse[/i], and Kiara wasn’t about to forgive that...