Lilith opened her door and was promptly tackled by a squealing Road. Lilith laughed, "What do I owe the pleasure to having you give me such a greeting?"

Road laughed and let go of Lilith's neck, which was the only thing keeping her off the ground, and said, "I heard Tyki is courting you."

Lilith blushed and nervously giggled as she remembered the night previous, "Yes I suppose he is."

Road squealed again and hugged Lilith saying, "Yay! So when is your next meeting?"

Lilith said, "Well if I can recall it is going to be tonight."

Road giggled and said, "Well then I'll have to see about that." And with that Road left down the hall. Lilith was quite taken aback and actually wondered what the younger girl meant by having to see about that.

Lilith actually grew a little worried when she knew that Road was now going to have an influence on Tyki and her date. It wasn't that she was scared of the girl but she had played with her before and see about that made Lilith a bit cautious.

Lilith shook her head and went back into her room to bring out a book. But an idea came to her before she reached out for her novel. She asked Snake-Lilith, "Do you think it would be a problem if I walked for a bit?

Snake-Lilith asked, "What do you mean by 'walk'?"

"Just a walk around the grounds. I don't feel like sitting inside. Road's comment made me a bit tense."

"I don't think there'd be a problem with that. We are observers so why not do our job and observe?"

Lilith laughed and headed out the door, and headed out the mansion. She walked around all of the grounds and got back around lunch time. Noting was special about lunch except for the fact that Road and Tyki seemed to be absent. Sheryl, Lulubell, and the Earl were the only ones at the table and it was quite quiet aside from some small talk here and there.

As soon as Lilith was finished she excused herself and walked back to her walking. Seeing neither the younger girl nor Tyki at lunch just out her back on edge. She walked around the grounds for an hour before Road came running up to her and said, "Come with me Lilith! I need to dress you up!"

Lilith smiled but on the inside she remembered what she did to her dolls, but mentally shook that thought away when she remembered that Road thought of her as a sister... or so she hoped.

When they entered Road's room Lilith was led to Road's giant walk in closet and Lilith still couldn't get over how big the girl's closet was. There were colors and styles and sizes of all kinds in this cave of wonder. Immediately dresses were being held out for Lilith to try on and Lilith just smiled and nodded as she tried on one after the other.

Road didn't finally decide on one until an hour after they began and Lilith felt overused. She fell on the bed and Road came up to her and said, "Well I'll fix it to your exact measurements and I'll get it tailored in time for your date with Tyki tonight."

Lilith smiled at the young girl as she put back on her original clothes, "Well thank you Road but what do you have planned?"

Road laughed, "I'm not telling. Not even Tyki knows."

Lilith shook her head and left the room with a wave before going back to her own room. When she entered said room a sudden sense of exhaustion flooded her and she thought, "It was Road wasn't it."

Snake-Lilith replied, "We can assume that."

Lilith hit the bed and it was lights out for the snake-eyed girl.

A knocking on the door woke her up. She sat up slowly and padded over to the door and said, "Coming."

When she opened the door Tyki was standing there holding the dress Road had fitted for Lilith. He smiled and said, "Good afternoon Lilith."

Lilith smiled and then yawned, "Good afternoon Tyki. I'm guessing Road told you to give that to me?"

Tyki laughed and said, "I assume she played dress up with you to find this one."

Lilith laughed and Tyki handed her the garment. She smiled, "Thank you for delivering this to me."

Tyki smiled and said, "Well did Road keep you in the dark as well?" Lilith nodded and he continued, "She expects us in the dancing hall as soon as you're dressed." He smirked, "Do you need any help."

Lilith looked down and blushed, "No I'll be fine to dress myself."

Tyki nodded and then lightly forced her to look up at him by grabbing her chin in between his index finger and thumb. He gave her a peck on the lips and said, "I'll be waiting."

Lilith blushed and Tyki let her go and allowing her to shut the door. She didn't know why she still felt this way about him even though they had already kissed. Snake –Lilith thought to interrupt her thoughts by saying, "Quickly get dressed, we don't want to keep your gentleman caller waiting."

Lilith nodded and started to remove her clothes. She slipped on the light silk, purple dress; it was sleeveless. The bust area of the dress had a bit of a fold to it and from the waist down the dress was like a flowing drape. Though on the rim of the dress right over her heart fluttered a little purple butterfly (*1) like she saw the night before.

She smiled and walked out seeing Tyki in a very dashing black tux, with his hair in its usual ponytail, and he had a simple masquerade mask that hid enough of his face to hide his identity. On it was a gold butterfly and a purple on flying to each other from the side. He smiled at her appearance and said, "I see my Tease likes you."

Lilith smiled and Tyki handed her a mask that was similar to his but the gold and purple butterfly had switched sides. She placed it on her head and secured it on so it would stay. Tyki offered his arm and she took it and let him lead her down the hall.

When they entered the dance hall people in all colors of cloth and mask were dancing around and laughing. Lilith let out a nervous laugh as Tyki let out one of his own.

"Tyki! Lilith! Up here!" Road's voice shouted from a balcony and when they looked up she was smiling and waving, with her mask off.

Lilith smiled and waved and Tyki turned his attention to Lilith and said, "Shall we?"

Lilith nodded and Tyki led her to the stairs that led to the balcony. Though Road must've grew impatient for before they even climbed half way Road was already with them and pulling at their free hands saying, "Come on! Hurry! Hurry!"

The couple laughed as they followed Road's orders and were soon at the top of the steps. Sheryl, Lulubell, and the Earl, in his human form, were all sitting at their own private table and they made their greetings when the two sat at the table. Lilith felt a bit embarrassed at the looks they were all giving her and started to feel fidgety.

Road smiled at Lilith and said, "So do you want to know what all of this is?" Lilith and Tyki looked at her and nodded. Road smiled and said, "This is a party in honor of you two beginning to court one another!"

Lilith nearly spit out her drink and Tyki had coughed as his went down the wrong pipe.

"What?" both said in surprise.

Road laughed and the Earl was the one who spoke, "Well Tyki is popular with the ladies and since you two are now courting we all thought it appropriate that people know."

Sheryl the smiled and tried to hug his brother but was denied by Tyki's extended arm, and Sheryl said, " Aww don't act like that Tyki!" Sheryl then went over to Lilith and hugged the un-expecting before continuing, "So when's the ring going to come?"

Lilith blushed and both she and Tyki said, "Ring?"

Sheryl smiled and took the chance to have both Tyki and Lilith in his arms as he said, "I asked when you are going to propose to the girl."

Lilith felt herself a bit overwhelmed and the Road laughed and said, "Father, even I feel as if you're always trying to marry Tyki off before he's ready!"

The Earl laughed and said, "And look at poor Lilith. You have her in a tizzy."

Everyone looked to Lilith and she laughed and said, "Oh don't worry about me! It's just that things were going a little too fast for me."

Tyki nodded and said, "Plus we just started courting and Sheryl's already thinking about marriage." He forced his and Lilith's way out of Sheryl's grip and grabbed onto Lilith, "but it always is a possibility."

Everyone looked at Tyki in almost disbelief and Lilith noticed that he was teasing and pointed it out. He smirked and admitted it and that gave the group a laugh. Tyki grabbed Lilith's hand and led her to the dance floor.

Lilith felt happy that Tyki felt that way but Snake-Lilith only said, "Good luck!" and left her alone for the rest of the night.

Tyki and Lilith enjoyed there time dancing and on more than one occasion Road or Sheryl would offer to dance with the two. By the end of the night, and people started to look tired, the Noah, not including Tyki, stood in front of the group and all talk hushed.

Sheryl raised his glass and said, "Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to give my thanks you for coming to my brother's courtship ball." There were some murmurs but he continued, "Now being as it is the end of the night and many of you seem eager to get home I would like to start the mask removing event. Now may I ask my brother and his fellow courter, Lilith, to join us up on stage?"

Everyone looked around but when Tyki and Lilith stood up to walk towards the stage they all stared in wonder of what kind of woman would make the great Lord Mikk pick a girl. Lilith felt embarrassed and she kept her gaze forward. When they reached the stage the Earl said, "As in the way we will ask you all to remove your masks first and then we will these two lovely peoples' masks."

The crowd left and all removed their masks, including the Earl, Road, Lulubell, and Sheryl. Lilith was so nervous on how the crowd would react to seeing her, she closed her eyes. She felt the mask being taken off and when it was Tyki whispered in her ear and she opened her eyes. There were shocked gasps from the crowd, as well as appall and wonder.