ANASTASIA

XVIII: VESPER ALISTAIR

The wind knows where to go.

--unknown.

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The party proceeded in the usual way it was being held. There are numerous opportunities to dance, feast, converse, and build relations to one another—as such, it didn’t take long before the guests break through their fear of the king’s presence.

Sitting in his seat, King Vesper Alistair had a glass on one hand, and an hour glass filled of red sand on the other. Drinking his liquor, his eyes scanned the room before it landed back on his hour glass. 211 minutes. Timing on when will the main cause of the event, the Queen Mother, arrives, he sat back and let everyone mind their own businesses until his will come.

Moving his now empty glass in a slow, circular motion, liquor slowly filled his glass until it reached its former, undrunk fill. D