"...Lady Elisabetta." I replied, my hand still held in the escort position, having just been on the precipice of inviting Eve to our now habitual nightly dance, while our customary entourage, with the addition of Weixiao and Ziyi gave her odd looks full of perplexity at her presence.
She then switched her stance and turned to the others, and performed another series of greeting bows, with the ones she performed for Darius and Abraham being the most reverent of the lot, eclipsing even her salutations to the heir and princess of the east; which despite being actions standing slightly in opposition to the strict dogmatic tenets of royal etiquette, no one judged or corrected her display; for they not only gave genuine respect to the age of the ancient men, who were even older than her own father, but they also paid proper tribute to the two titanic behemoths, and all their immemorial deeds.
