Chapter 23

The night was bubbly.

The large hall room was warm and the golden brown high walls were intricately embroidered with flowery shaped patterns. Glossed ceilings looked over marbled hard wood, making the clinking of high quality shoes more prominent. One could look to the side and see some painted artworks covering parts of the panel molded designed walls as scalloped edging sat close to the palladian windows enclosed with coffee brown thick drapery.

There was two large circular escaliers that led to the upper level as the handrails of each escalier were adorned with decorative inserts. To one side of the left escalier sat the live band and to the side of the right escalier served rare dishes. As men in tuxedos and women in gowns trooped in, the first thing they noticed were the tiny golden chandeliers glittering graciously in the soft light.

Alpha Venkat was on the upper floor at the midpoint where the two staircases met as he overlooked the entire ballroom, his eyes not focusing on t