Maybe you should reconsider. You don't look half-bad in a dress and I dare say you look handsome in a suit.

[ Part compliment, part teasing because she can't resist. She could say something about how the Storyteller mistook his regular outfit for a dress and that might be why he keeps ending up in princess roles but...

Somehow Velvet expected he'd get around to asking. ]

Partially. This may be the only opportunity I have to dance at a ball. I figured that I might as well make the most of it. [ She smiles faintly. ]