8 years ago
*Summer*
Sitting in front of the mirror, I watch as Miriam works to put my hair up in a style reminiscent of Marie Antoinette, which seems appropriate as my mother would have my head if she knew the true reason I had pleaded and begged for our affair to be a masquerade ball. But it had been necessary to my plan. Every ball I have attended thus far has been boring and uneventful.
It is my first season and I should be enthralled with the sparkling glamour. Instead I find it all rather dull and attending the affairs extremely wearisome.
I spend a good deal of my time dancing with one partner after another. My brother's many friends are all willing to ensure I am not a wallflower … even on the nights when Thor doesn’t attend the affairs, which is most nights. He has no need to
