(Saying her manners are atrocious sounds worse than saying what her domains are in terms of revealing personal info lol)

"Oh I mean her table manners are on point but social manners...she's lacking quite a bit, I'm just lucky she has yet to learn swears because she would definitely use those way to much." Frances has no idea why he's complaining to a stranger about Elli's manners, normally it would be Marsh who he goes to with his complaints but seeing as she's currently busy bickering with Elaine he can't really do that. It's not like he hasn't told Elaine about how terrible her social manners is and how incredibly rude it was to go around demanding things from people, she just doesn't seem to care.


(hdgshfgshf honestly, Frances is lowkey a bit fed up with Elaine's rudeness which is understandable since he has to deal with it like 24/7)

"...she's naive yes but she's not a bad person. She just...doesn't quite understand a few things."

Frances just nods in agreement. Swishing his wine around in his glass for no reason other than having something to do with his hands.

Sorry, Allen. That's how it usually be with him. 
If Galaxian understands how the shapeshifter is feeling, he shows none of it. "Your niece? Wow!" he exclaims, doing so with such a vigor that the sausages he's holding wobble as a pile. 

The funny thing here is that Allen probably can't even see the deity's face. He's basically talking to a sausage pile with legs.
"What was her name?" he asks.

"Oh. That sounds like a name related to minerals," Galaxian observes, referring to one of Dalia's domains. "Who named her?"

Upon noticing Dalia standing off to the side and away from the crowd, Elaine decided to pick her as her first target. She practically marched over to the goddess, with Marsh following out of curiosity and to make sure she doesn't do anything stupid.

"Hi, you seem lonely but if you decide to become one of my followers, I prom- mffft!" Elaine's voice was cut off when Marsh slapped a hand over her mouth to keep her from saying anything even more stupid.

Smiling apologetically at Dalia, Marsh tries to keep Elaine in check "Sorry, please excuse this child. She has no idea what she's saying."

Elaine bit Marsh's hand, forcing them to let her go. She huffed indignantly, straightening out her dress "One, I am not a child. Two, I know exactly what I'm saying-" Marsh then cuts in "Three, you're at a party full of literal deities, I suggest you keep your mouth shut before you piss one of them off."

"I could kill you right now for treason," Elaine counters as if that was a valid response "I should kill you right now for treason."

"Right because giving the queen sound logic is 'treason'" Marsh did air quotes around the word 'treason'. They rolled their eyes, clearly annoyed.

Elaine sticks her tongue out at Marsh like a child which only serves to prove their point even further.

Marsh sighs, turning to Dalia "Once again, sorry for her behavior. Normally she's more...proper, though I suppose being in her own palace has made her a bit more cocky than usual" The last part was a lie, Elaine is always this cocky and stuck up but one can't blame Marsh for at least trying to paint her in a better light.

(idk yes??????? I mean like it's not a really important thread, I didn't plan any plot for it so I don't mind if it just...died off)

"Yes," was all that Allen said. He decided to finish his strawberry.

"Oh, don't you worry trying to defend her," Dalia told Marsh. She moved her fan to the side of her face for a slightly dramatic effect.
The grin she gave Elaine was half derisive. "You've got guts to ask a deity to become your follower. What made you think that was a good idea, newbie goddess?" Dalia straightened in place, 'looking down' at Elaine from her height (plus high heels, and even then the difference wasn't much). "Just because you have a beautiful and ornate palace doesn't give you the authority to think of yourself as a boss for other deities more powerful than yourself."

The small deity does his variation of watching Allen eat, content with not disturbing the other's strawberry nomming. That is, until he connects the dots.
It's funny because it was pretty apparent that Galaxian, in fact, had thought that Allen's niece was also Dalia's niece, partially because he's pretty sure only physically ancient beings have children (lmiao, Galaxian, ever think of Rune?). But the meaning of "niece" registers pretty quickly, and that means Allen's niece is Dalia's...
You can't tell, but Galaxian's actually questioning his existence now. 

Galaxian ignores his own idiocy for a bit as he veers over to warn Dalia, "Hey, no threats."

"I said no threats, not violence," Galaxian argues, crossing his arms as he gains the appropriate distance (or so he gauges himself). "No violence too, by the way." Thankfully, he's not nonplussed or anything by being called "kid." I mean, this is a guy who got called "brat" all the time in the past and didn't care. "Kid" is nothing.

Dalia proceeded to smile very smugly back at Elaine, staring directly into the goddess's eyes. She softened both her gaze and grin once Frances went there.

Allen offered a tiny smile, very different from his sister's, though it was only on his face for a second.
"Thank you for the invitation to the party. We are enjoying it so far."