It was the middle of summer and "The Society" chose this time to hold the annual cotillion for all the little "up an coming" little girls. She was on one of the balconies of Gallier Hall trying to catch a cool breeze while she waited for the auction to begin. She sighed as she rubbed the sweat from her brow with one of her gloves.
All she wanted to do was grab a few good books, go to her secret spot and lay naked reading in the candle light. She didn't want to be here, but her father told her he'd lock the library door and not give her the key if she didn't come to her own "coming out" ball.
She didn't care for any of this. All these people were were lies covered in silk. They didn't care a lick about the other. In fact they would feed from the downfall of the others.
She shuffled around in her white dress fanning herself from the extreme humidity of the night. She had snuck out of the sweltering dressing room and from the rest of the girls. They always talked of trivial things like how rich their future husband was or how fat they had gotten from eating three bites as opposed to the normal one and a half. She wondered if there was a single thought of substance between them all.
Her thoughts were interupted by one of the girls as she came out in a hurry saying,
"Tanis! There you are! We've been looking all over for you, we're about to begin the presentation"
Don't you mean auction" she thought bitterly.
She took one more look out into the stars jealous of their freedom, turned and walked inside.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=88.8){kind=small}
shieldinsilence's journal