An Open Invite

[Lucius Servius]

Lucius reacts by giving Angelina a gentle slap. “Tut, Tut. No, no, no, that will not do at all Miss Fontaine. What sort of introduction is that? Wholly inadequate if not insulting. I have recently borne witness to the consequences of failing to properly communicate ones social station. So try again my bumbling pet. This time remember to properly include lineage and titles?”

Lucius's only reaction to Caru’s interest is to move his hand down to slowly caress Angelina’s cheek.

[Bronwyn93]

Angelina’s hand flew up to her cheek in shock, wide eyed and flushed. She stared at him anger and embarrassment in her eyes. She had been through many things in what little memories she had, and yet she had never been struck before.

“You put me on the spot Elder. I have never made an introduction before, and I do not know the full way to introduce you.”

She said quietly with suppressed anger behind her words, though her eyes had dropped, unable to maintain any form of eye contact with him. Her cheek was tingling still as she moved her hands down to fiddle anxiously with her bracelet.

“.... I’m sorry.” She said quietly after a moment.

[Lady Grace]

Grace was drunk.
Not only that she had had enough of watching this.
She stands up and Grace raises her voice forcefully;

"Elder Servius, exactly how long are you going to persist in forcing your attentions on one who so obviously does not want it.
"Or are you so misguided in your wits to have lost the ability to tell the difference between attraction and disgust?"

"This display is beneath you. Leave the poor girl alone,"

[Caru]

Caru reared her head back in shock, her concerned gaze flicking quickly between between Angelina and Lucius. Disgust bled strongly into the outer regions of her aura.

She felt for Angelina, and might well intercede later - or in other circumstance - but Caru hadn't become a diplomat by interceding on another's behalf (a Released other's behalf, to boot) and with a Ventrue Elder in the mix.

But deciding this was one pot with too many bees in already, Caru gave Angelina a tight look, and turned as if to cater her attention to the wider room. She could be close by the distract, potentially.

[Valentina Audley]

Valentina smiles politely as the Elders come back in and does her usual small, neat curtsey.

She listens with interest to the answers, though Lucius and Aldrich's disappoint her. Not because of the blandness, given her own answer how could she fault them? But because they announced their deception. She'd not asked for the absolute truth and had assumed an entertaining answer was implied. How dreadfully disappointing to find one's Elder's so... uninspiring.

The other answers intrigue her, though she has to stifle querying Jean-Jacques as to which sire, her aura twitching with amusement at the thought.

Lucius' continued mauling of Angelina in public, despite her discomfort causes Valentina to rapidly revise her opinion of him downwards. A pity, he might have been useful, but those who do not repsect boundaries cannot be trusted. She must remember to let Dyonisia know.

She's suddenly very glad that Caru is there and presumably ready to intervene should the situation worsen, and given the Gangrel's excellent tact, she feels she should do her part to smooth things.

"Ancilla Caru allow me to intoduce Elder Lucius Caecilius Servius, childe of the Ventrue Justicar, grand-childe of Artimus. Of the Patrician house of Manlius. Elder Lucius, this is Ancilla Caru of Clan Gangrel." She says formally and politely.

She dare not intervene on behalf of Reggie's childe, no matter how much she'd like to, so she racks her brains for a subtle way to extricate the girl, though none immediately come to mind.

[Laurence]

Laurence tenses visibly at the slap. His aura taking on a red haze as he decides whether hitting the elder with a chair would be worth the backlash.

[Lucius Servius]

“It seems my pet our love is not to be”. Whispering into Angelina ear in a low voice. “But you know well as I our fates are entwined.”

Lucius gets up the carafe of wine in hand. “Kindred, I can tell this has stirred up some feelings. Fortunately, I do not answer to any of you.”

Lucius moves slightly away from Angelina.

Thank you for the introduction Ancilla Audley, completely correct and proper as always. Yours is an example perhaps some could learn from.”

[Bronwyn93]

Angelina cringed slightly at his words again, and her shoulders hunched slightly, her eyes still lowered. She was still burning with embarrassment, both from the slap, and from being told she had done the introduction wrong. She had no experience in the matter, it isn't like she had a grand introduction to give. She knew he had reason to be proud, but she wasn't totally to blame for the improper introduction. She had been put on the spot.

She kept her eyes low, her slightly hunched position straightening out to be that of a proper young lady again. She may have been humiliated but she still presented herself well.

[Lady Grace]

Grace sits down with a smile.
"Neonate Fontaine, would you be so kind as to fetch me a drink?"

After hearing Lucius had called her Vulgar once in her absence, she was ready for him to do the same again to her face and yet apparantly not. He could talk all he wanted, at least Angelina had some respite now.

"Excellent game answers all round.
A second round perhaps?"

"Please would you answer, 'Of what accomplishment are you most proud?' "

[Laurence]

Not hitting the Lucius with a chair?

Laurence refocuses after enjoying the mental image of breaking a chair over Lucius's head, eyes narrowed as he observes the situation.

"A hard choice Primogen, it is difficult to choose between the night I slaughtered an entire pack of the Sword and stopping the attempted assassination of Prince Leroux."