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Modern AU anti-Valentine’s Day PWP one-shot

The most noticeable absence of the evening was young Lord Arryn; her loving father would keep his stepson incapacitated but blissfully ignorant until such a time as he deemed it unnecessary. Alayne would have more sympathy for the boy if he weren’t an unholy terror when not snowed under by medications. She wished herself likewise excused, finding the entire endeavor dull in the extreme, but sadly it was not to be. The part she played did little to stretch her abilities, and most of the people present were insufferable. Still, she greeted each as they came, her words soft but kind, smiling shyly, her shoulders bowed inward to make herself seem smaller and even more insignificant. They might have taken more notice of the girl few had seen before tonight if she hadn't been so disappointingly mundane, the opposite of her gregarious, engaging father in almost every way--except she too had a smile which never reached her eyes.