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She was thirteen, though not least the youngest among the guests, and the younger attendants were expected to be ushered off before the heavier drinking and “adult discussions” began later that night (if not home, then to an area on the venue where they could gather, socialize, and dance among their own age group) – but three hours was all she needed to be completely dazzled: By the ballroom that seemed to stretch on for miles, white and accented in gold and positively glowing from the light of the dozens of grand chandeliers; how the ladies dressed like nothing short of Queens and the men were charming (at least upon first impression) and well-groomed and the refreshment tables were piled high with food and decorations and expensive ice sculptures.

She remembers the constant movement of the dance floor -- the flurry of gowns as they whirled around in dizzying circles -- and meeting her childhood Prince friend Kartik in the middle of it all – after years of being apart – and spending the rest of the night with him at her side. And she definitely remembers causing a fair amount of mischief as a pair when the younger guests were separated from the older ones.

3) Something she wishes she could take back?

Her personality dictates that she’s always rather regretful of the things she says in any fits of anger. She feels very strongly, and when she gets angry she gets angry – and she draws on an arsenal of every tiny bad thing that she’s ever noticed about a person (and she notices a lot, and she tends to subconsciously store in the back of her mind) and sometimes some very uncharacteristically biting things come out of her mouth. Things that hurt her to say, or to have said in the end, and they haunt her when she realizes how mean she can be.

So I would say anything along those lines; especially anything of that variety that she might have said to her siblings.

4) Her worst fear/s?

Kaibara’s fears are always rooted in being completely alone and losing the people she loves/cares about (or having them harmed in some way).

5) Three people that mean the most, & why???

Other than her parents, there’s:

Her younger brother, Sora – because they are the closest in age out of the entire brood and by far the closest out of all the siblings, and because she can and does talk to him about everything. He gets all the dirt, all the emotions, and he’s probably the only one who understands all of her inside jokes.

Her Uncle Kadam (Hana’s youngest brother), who first entertained her interest in a hobby in archery – who had a bow crafted specifically for her and arranged for her to have lessons, alongside teaching her himself on occasion.

The woman who taught her to play the harp, for her endless patience and encouragement (despite her hard expression and seemingly abrasive demeanor). (I never came up with a name for her, ahaa)

6) The abandoned Opera house, did they find it & decide to renovate the place themselves , or was it something passed down through the family..?

I was thinking they came across it and decided it would be a nice ode to their careers, but now I’m thinking that maybe it was once a place that their respective families were squabbling over the rights to own -- but despite the outstanding feud, the two of them fell in love, eloped, and bought the place together years later, almost as a big middle finger to their families and their stupid fight.