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The Girl at the Table The ballroom was very large and elegant that night, full of music and light. The large chandeliers hung above the crowds of chatting, eating, or dancing people around the room. The room was covered in the colors of white, gold, and silver with tables covered in exquisite foods and drinks lining the walls of the room. The music floated around the room from instruments that played themselves on a small stage in front of the dance floor, where multiple couples danced. At one of the many round tables with their white tablecloths and vase of white roses sat Joel, Drago, Joel’s uncle-in-law Ormand Gwydion, and his cousin Nero. Joel ate another bite of his slice of cake as he watched his Aunt Nyoka socializing with some of the other wealthy-looking guests of the clearly high-class party, “Do you guys think Aunt Nyoka likes all the people she talks to, or do you think she’s learned how to fake it?” Ormand chuckled, “Oh, I know she’s faking for some of them. She