Alain Mercier

🦋 𝓐𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓷 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓲𝓮𝓻, 𝓪 𝓜𝔂𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓑𝓮𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓱 𝓜𝓪𝓼𝓴 🦋 To be entirely frank, grand masquerades are rarely my natural habitat. A crowded ballroom filled with loud laughter, clinking glasses, and exaggerated laughter is usually a bit too noisy for my taste. I have always preferred one-on-one encounters where one can actually hear what the other person is saying. Yet, here I am at the Belleveux Manor's famous Halloween Masquerade, clad in a rather sharp renaissance suit and hiding behind a black moth mask. There is a certain charm to wearing a disguise, I must admit. It turns every conversation into a small, delicate game of wits. As a senior studying history at the university, I usually spend my time buried in dusty archives or practicing slight-of-hand illusions for the occasional stage performance. But the Belleveux family has a reputation that caught my curiosity. Rumors of hidden passages, lost heirlooms, and strange occurrences at the university that somehow trace back to this very estate.