Daine sighed and finished adding the last curl in her hair with the rest and stood up, smoothing her dark blue dress out. She smiled as she heard her fiancé's voice just outside the door. "No, I will not; just leave, you've no purpose to be in this wing," he said sternly.

Daine wondered whom he was talking to, so with one last glance at her face in the mirror she made her way closer to the door. "Why not Arram?" came a somewhat familiar voice. "It'll be the last time, I realize that."

After asking politely, Daine joined with a mouse's body and looked at the couple outside her door. She frowned slightly, confused, as Numair sighed, rubbing his long nose while Varice stood in front of him with pleading eyes. "Is that human not good?" the mother mouse asked.

"I don't know," Daine answered truthfully.

"Varice, I'm engaged," he said quietly. Varice rolled her eyes as though she thought that a flimsy excuse. Before she could utter another word though he pulled her into Alanna's empty room. The mouse used one of the smaller holes to follow them, instead of risking being squashed in the door as it closed. Numair turned on the woman with anger overtaking his face. "Varice, my fiancée's door is right there, if she heard—"

"Oh, that just makes things more exciting." Daine watched in horror as Varice lunged at Numair and he opened his arms to her. The wild mage ordered the mouse to stay where she was and when their connection was severed to bite the Storkman and look him in the eyes before running away.

The mouse agreed and Daine fled back to her own body, refusing to stay longer to witness the infidelity. She ran out of her room, purposefully slamming her door on the stonewall. She didn't hear the opposing door slamming open as her mind screamed for Cloud.

The terrified, heartbroken young woman pushed through the throng of dancers in a panic, not hearing Numair's cries for her. She couldn't handle touching all the people, thinking of how many might have cheated on their loving partner.

Stopping in he middle of the room, she changed her voice box into a lion and roared her heartache. All the dancers moved away from her, moving off to the walls, and creating a path to the terrace doors, which had an off branch to the stables, where Cloud was waiting. She started running again when a strong hand grabbed her upper arm. In an animalistic state of mind, she turned wildly and slashed at George Cooper's face with a bird's talons, forcing him to free her out of self-preservation. As soon as she was released, she ran out. "Daine!" Numair yelled from the other side of the large room.

The room was dead silent except for the ting of a small a metal ring hitting the cold stone.