SHINE BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND // open, new tradition + Mass Gathering

the warmth of the fire was nice, henri decided- it was a pleasant change from the constant chill of snowbound. of course, he was dangerously close to the flame, but he was unable to tell. as he was about to take another step, he heard somebody approach him, and he quickly turned, stepping back instinctively. the voice introduced himself as morgan, a tanglewood member. henri had never heard of them, and he tilted his head. then somebody else approached, and introduced himself as vigenere cipher. cipher. immediately, his mind raced back to caesar and a grin spread across his pale face. "cipher, huh?" he couldn't exactly declare his servitude to caesar in front of snowbound, so he didn't say anything else.

turning his attention back to morgan, keeping the grin on his face, he spoke more. "hiya! my name's henri!" he was unnaturally charismatic, and there was something off about him. "oh, my glasses?" he asked, moving to take the sunglasses off, revealing dull, marble-like eyes. "i'm blind, hahaha! it's a gift from my savior," henri was rather passionate about his savior, his belial. his whole reason for existence was to convert the gullible and take their lives from them. "i can't see anything, but that's okay! i'm pretty skilled at navigating," he reasoned, although anybody who truly knew henri would know that he was in fact shit at getting around. "snowbound is rather lovely, is it not? it's nice and cold and everybody's so..." dumb. "kind to people like me!" he referenced his disability, winking.