Luma was absolutely thrilled to have a chance to dress up in something frilly and pretty for today, and feeling far more confident and comfortable with it being not only for someone she knew, but also in a place she was familiar with, eradicating a lot of the factors that made her nervous with socializing.

True, she didn't know a thing about Miss Vess' betrothed except that he apparently liked to cook (and was very good at it, based on the food they'd had in class!), but perhaps that just meant now was a good time to work on that! Especially since she was desperately curious to know what kind of man could actually win over someone like Miss Vess!

It felt like the closest thing to a sweeping romance from one of her books as she could imagine.