Well...no, I suppose not! Not if it's proper to. I just, er.
[...]
It's only that I don't want to look foolish, is all. And I rather think I'll already look a bit foolish no matter what I do, just from all the things I've been seeing go up and around when we've been at the event hall all this time, so I just don't want to add any more to it than there'll certainly be, already.
[There is some deliberating going on from Alucard. On one hand, he could certainly offer to take Rosella himself. Honestly, he had invited her to join in helping with dance lessons because he wanted to encourage her to join the actual party, to have something nice.
On the other hand... there is the sudden kneejerk reaction to squirm at the concept. No, not again, never again, he thinks to himself instinctively, darkly, panicking. Won't he come to regret this, too? Just as he's come to regret everything else.
But is it also worth just leaving her on her own? How many more blind men would not seek to take her?]
Rosella.
Would you like to attend the party together with me?
[And there is a part of her, a little tiny part, that guiltily thinks: convince him to take Lestat's girl instead. It would be better, and more proper. Certainly someone who'd done all that work would be more deserving of it — more deserving of someone like Alucard, who is handsome and kind and funny and just a little bit mean, but in all the right ways, who dances beautifully and has perfect manners and —
And.
And maybe, just this once, she wants to be a little bit selfish, after everything else.]
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Are you concerned about going on your own?
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It's only that I don't want to look foolish, is all. And I rather think I'll already look a bit foolish no matter what I do, just from all the things I've been seeing go up and around when we've been at the event hall all this time, so I just don't want to add any more to it than there'll certainly be, already.
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[There is some deliberating going on from Alucard. On one hand, he could certainly offer to take Rosella himself. Honestly, he had invited her to join in helping with dance lessons because he wanted to encourage her to join the actual party, to have something nice.
On the other hand... there is the sudden kneejerk reaction to squirm at the concept. No, not again, never again, he thinks to himself instinctively, darkly, panicking. Won't he come to regret this, too? Just as he's come to regret everything else.
But is it also worth just leaving her on her own? How many more blind men would not seek to take her?]
Rosella.
Would you like to attend the party together with me?
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And.
And maybe, just this once, she wants to be a little bit selfish, after everything else.]
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[Wait. Wait. Be cool about this.]
If you promise you won't tease me about worms the whole of the night, that is!
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I would be honored to escort you, truly.