Her immediate reply struck Laurent as snappish. The way she spoke seemed a bit immature almost, but the meaning behind her words almost made Laurent want to lack. Taking his own advice? It made Laurent think of how contradicting he could be at times and how confusing. It was only another reason no one ever came close to even wanting to understand him. "Perhaps, but I'm no the one who appears to be in danger of lacking a good time," He had responded shortly afterwards. He would not have said Alenya was saying the wrong things, but just did not say them in the correct form.

Alenya seemed to be the type who was trying to be on a certain behavior. It was a give away she was not as experienced in the courts as she would have liked to come off as. However, Laurent thought her to be bright though she was being held back by the expectations she wanted to uphold. True or not, Laurent had seen and known such a feeling. "Just another smothered flame," He muttered partly to himself. It was another one of those moments he had where he would briefly forget reality and at the same time be conversing with someone.

'You're forgeting again,' He thought to himself suddenly. Laurent just then realized how distracted he had been for the past few moments with this girl. As he glanced around the Thron Room, there appeared to be nothing amiss and everything seemed just as it should. He internally sighed. To him it felt like the same scene re-playing itself over and over again. There sat the King and Queen while the subjects danced and spoke to each other joyously. It seemed everyone had a place and part. It seemed. That was the key word in that sentence.

His eyes looked over catching a few more stares. Laurent was not surrised to recognize them as the same group of conservatives from earlier that evening. Laurent did not have to be a mind reader to know what they were thinking. They wanted him, a "foreigner", out. It did amaze Laurent to a degree on how perisistent someone could be without actually talking or doing any direct confrontation. That was how most people were though. They tried to avoid getting their ands dirty while getting their point across. 'Typical fairy behavior,' He thought.

"What do you say to completely abandoning the courts for the night?"

Tempting.

"I don't know about you but I know that nobody will miss me."

For a few seconds he was actually not sure how to respond. If Alenya wanted to head out, there was not stopping her. Laurent definitely would not mind. However, he was slightly foggy on whethere she meant abandoning as in forgetting she was interested or as in leave for the night period. "If you want to, don't let me stop you," He commented knowing that whichever of the two she meant, he could not do. Laurent had his reasons for showing up at the ball and one was because he was hoping to see someone soon. Even if he was not, he had his own more personal reasons for keeping a sheild up.

The idea of getting frash air just for a few seconds was nice. Laurent was cold not only mentally but physically as well. If someone toughed him the first thing they would notice would probably be that his skin was nearly as cold as ice. Naturally, Laurent preferred cooler climates and the fact that this was a ball did not help. When so many people moved about so quickly only more body heat was produced. Laurent figured that would happen, but it still managed to create a ripple of disconentess within him. He suddenly could not wait for the night to be over and to feel the cool night breeze on his skin. It would be great.

He could have probably thought of something to say to Alenya, but what would that be? 'A time to speak, a time to keep silence,' He thought to himself remembering something like that once in his youth. So, the young fairy stayed quiet knowing by now he probably did come off more on guard than Alenya herself did. She had already noticed it, but there was nothing much he could do about it. It really was not like him to be so...uncomfortable. Tonight everything just seemed different for some reason and he was not sure why.