The party was just as how it was described, a return to the opulent days of monarchs. The guests mingled in their masquerade costumes, each one more extravagant than the next. The masks of pure gold or silver were encrusted with jewels. The costumes made of the finest silks, satins and lace, the men regal in their attire, the women queenly in theirs’. The ballroom was expansive and nearly filled to capacity. Chandeliers of the finest crystal hung from the ceiling. The floors were of a marble reserved for the kings of an age long since past.
They allowed the guests to glide along in their waltzes with minimal of effort. An orchestra of the finest classically trained musicians played on a staged in the center of the room on the left of the entrance. Up ahead, at the top of the room, were thrones chairs reserved for the host, his wife and two daughters, one of them an adopted girl of seductive color. The party was in their honor, a celebration of their maturing into women. Tonight was their night of celebration. Tables lined the other side of the wall, where windows stretched from floor to ceiling, exposing a view of the gardens and ornate fountains.
Nearly all the guests had arrived and our host, a Mr. Diego Salvador felt it was time to commence with dinner. He summoned the servants to begin informing the guests that they would be sitting for dinner soon and notified the orchestra to end the waltz and begin playing dinner music. Mr. Salvador sat in his throne with his wife to his right, one daughter to his left and the other to right of his wife. The servants then brought out a table and proceeded to place settings for the four of them. As the settings were completed and the guests were finished sitting, Mr. Salvador rose to address his guests.
Everyone devoted his or her attention to Mr. Salvador, but just as he was about to speak he stopped before the first word. Standing at the entrance to the ballroom was a newly arriving guest. He was dressed in the blackest of black silk with a cape that hung nearly to his ankles. The contrast of the black against his ghostly pale skin was eerie. His mask was of an onyx stone, trimmed with gold. It did little to hide his hauntingly, piercing eyes. He stood tall at over six feet. His hair seemed to be as black as the silk that caressed his body. His hands reflected him as a man that has not performed a laborious task in all his life, fingernails perfectly manicured, extending beyond the fingertips to a sharpened point. A servant arrived to remove his cape for him and in a motion that guests thought they missed due to a blink he had removed the cape and placed it gently in the outstretched hands of the servant. As he walked, he seemed more to glide. Every step was effortless and every movement fluid. He was guided to his table, already occupied by two elderly couples. When he arrived at his, before he sat, he bowed slightly to Mr. Salvador as if to apologize and to command him to continue.
After the stranger had taken his seat Mr. Salvador began to address the guests. “Ladies and gentleman, honored guests, we have gathered here tonight in celebration of my daughters’ twenty first birthday. Today they are women. Today they take their rightful place in society as the torchbearers of a legacy built over four hundred years ago when my ancestors first arrived in the land of Queen Isabella. Tonight we celebrate. Tonight we revel in the dawning of the new generation. I thank you all for your attendance of this most celebratory occasion. And now, let us enjoy.”
The stranger sat his table, his gaze locked on the two women he was there to celebrate. His eyes seemed to penetrate their souls. He locked onto them as if he attempting to communicate with them telepathically. Just then a servant poured him a glass of red wine. Without removing his gaze from the strikingly beautiful woman he began to caress the rim of the glass with a finger, as if he were circling the outside of a nipple of one of the women. As he circled, the daughter on the far right of Mr. Salvador, a Miss Belicia Salvador became flushed with desire. She felt a rising underneath her silk and lace. It was the rising of a nipple.
Belicia Salvador was the biological offspring of Mr. Salvador and his wife Arabela. She inherited all the physical beauty of her mother and all the mental capacities of her father. She possessed a smooth, flawless, pale skin that gave her long, sinewy body a translucent air. Her breasts, small when compared to her sister, were ripe and luscious with long protruding nipples. It was her left nipple that was betraying her tonight, rising in desire, causing her to heave in hopeless silence. She closed her eyes and clutched her dress underneath the table as she felt a finger slowly, languidly make its way around her erect, aroused nipple.
One of the guest at the table with the stranger felt it necessary to interrupt him in an attempt to be polite, if he really wanted to be polite, he would have left him alone so that he could continue his seduction from afar of Belicia Salvador. “My name is Luis, good sir. Luis Amaya.”