[Heart: North: Ballroom]
[You are in the middle of a fancy ballroom while a party is in full swing.]
[A young woman -- she can't be older than several hundred years old -- of the House of the Phoenix approaches. Given she clearly has the Orb -- a faceted stone the size of a baseball -- orbiting her head, she is clearly the Empress.]
[She is also carrying a mask on a stick, one that El can clearly see, unlike the others that he catches out of the corner of his eyes. It's gold and feathered.]