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[kingkilvas]

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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[hiken]

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.

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[kingkilvas]

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

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[hiken]

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

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

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[kingkilvas]

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.

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[hiken]

[Ace stared at Naesala.]

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

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[kingkilvas]

[Naesala stared at the journal.]

I never said it was a proper title. It's not cheating if my kind was nicknamed as a like-minded bird.

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[hiken]

I dunno, I thought they looked the same, but were really different. Like, Crows scavenge in the open, but Ravens are smarter and scavenge when it's quiet.

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[kingkilvas]

That's why I said it wasn't proper. Of course ravens are smarter.

You're also implying we're the same as the simple, ordinary animal.