"For her sake, I hope so," Zoe says with a shrug, picking up a scarf and shaking it out.

At Elani's other question, though, she nods easily. "Yes. But it won't be the first Deck ball I've gone to alone." She'd only had a date to the masquerade, after all, because Victor had taken it upon himself to get her one. Most of the others she's flown solo too, except one or two when she'd been dating someone at the time.