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Out of curiosity, can anyone familiar enough with these events explain to me the purpose behind masquerade balls?

Is there cultural reasoning behind it, or do they really find the false illusion of pretending behind a mask and costume to be fun?

Perhaps I just don't understand the significance. Beorc nobility have the oddest ways of doing things.

[In preparing for the Naval ball this weekend (and all the fun restricting his wings under a cloak and pretending to be human for a night, oh goodie), Naesala's been wondering about the event itself.

That, and he's bored up in the crow's nest, currently avoiding most of the crew's new pets that seem to be cropping up day after day. Baby chicks and a cat and he's pretty sure there's a dog around somewhere? No thank you.]

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Nah, I don't think so. The styles are usually just from religious designs or things from peoples' myths.

They don't really tie in with the celebrations other than for, y'know, aesthetics.

Right, right. Because they think it's fun.

Well, it's the most normal explanation, at least. More than I've come to expect.

It's normal, 'cause it's lazy. These people worry so much about makin' time with one another to stress the proper details.

I suppose it only makes it more entertaining to watch them from the outside.

Hmmmm. Well, if you're into that thing, Naesala.

[Yep. That was definitely a perverted thing to admit.]

[he has learned the need to clarify things]

...Watch their idiocy without being directly involved with them, captain.

[There was a pause.]

...Well, yeah. Isn't that what a voyeur does?

It has nothing to do wi-- [ugh] Not literally "outside"! Figuratively! You're the depraved one if that's where your mind went.

I dunno. You sounded like you were using a really pervy voice.

[Judging.]

[...]

Talking with you is exhausting.

You can be a perv with Thatch. He likes talking about pervy stuff.

[Picking his nose.]

[and he had been doing so well for once]

I'm not taking part in this, Ace.

[Ace didn't even notice the irritation.]

It's better to be truthful with your crew if you like weird things.

I'm not going to own up to something you misinterpreted.

Oh.

Are you just a regular pervert, then?

I'm not any kind of pervert.

...Why're you actin' like one, then?

[ JUST ]

For the fourth time - I'm not. Again, I take no responsibility for anything you're choosing to misread, no matter how deliriously adamant your desire for it to be so.

You keep saying no, but you said really weird things that make me doubt it.

Let me spell it out for you: I said something innocuous. Your mind twisted it to mean something sick. In reality, it wasn't.

Yet you continue to argue, and refuse to take my current words to heart. Quite a problem you must have with proving the perverse where there is none.

Do you not get that I'm messing with you? Sometimes, I think I go on for too long and you start taking me seriously when normally you don't.

Your intellectual capacity is very hard to discern sometimes, yes.

See and I didn't figure ravens were the boring types.

You'd think it'd be somethin' like crows, right?

Well...yes. 'Crow' is even a common substitute designation for my people.

And I'm not boring, Ace, I just have a low tolerance for nonsense.

[Ace stared at Naesala.]

You can't be a crow and a raven, too! That's cheating!

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