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up and down at the thought of losing a night of hot drunk sex to protect me.  
    I was glad that one of our guys was coming for me, I didn’t want the responsibility that the four that ventured out on their own for the night had.  It was very important that the guys that did get to spend the evening ridding the world of more hideous female monsters made sure that the female they chose wasn’t a power head, because just like any other war, it is statistically bad to take out the leaders of the enemy because then you have a lot of angry little monsters on your hands with no one to control them. So they had to make sure they were well aware of their surroundings at all times. That sounded like a lot of unwanted responsibly that would put a damper on my night of fun. I was a hard working girl; I deserved at least one night, right? 
                 By 8:30PM, I was in full costume and parked outside the Noir hotel, where this big event had taken place for the last seven years. After checking my makeup in the visor mirror, I slipped the scarf over my nose and mouth leaving only my eyes visible. With the bright and bold makeup covering every inch of my face that the scarf didn’t, I couldn’t even recognize myself, and that worried me. If my own reflection wasn’t recognizable to me, how in the world was one of the guys supposed to pick me out of a room full of other strong framed, wavy haired, blue eyed women? I was able to take solace in the fact that Darien gave me his word that he would find me at midnight. He promised me that he didn’t mind giving up a night of sex when he could spend the night having fun with me. I felt guilty that out of the three years I attended, on two of them Darien gave up his fun to take care of me. It was quickly becoming a tradition that I was happy to be part of. It wasn’t very often that me and my best friend in the entire world just got to let our guards down; for an entire night we were locked away in a room and for once we were completely safe. Since it did no good to argue with him, I kissed him on the cheek and thanked him. I was really lucky to have him and sure as hell didn’t deserve him. Darien’s word meant more to me than a promise from anyone else, and I knew that nothing short of a major catastrophe would prevent him from keeping his promise and the night would end with me safe and sound with him.
    I had no idea what any of the men in my group were dressed in. It wasn’t something that I had to worry about.  Darien knew every detail of what I was wearing and that was as far as it went. I didn’t even know what his mask would look like, and that fact was a little unnerving. However, it was always important that we didn’t know much about the others when we were all out in the same place, especially when there was a chance of being found out. It would be horrible if one of us got caught and tortured into admitting there were more free range humans running around planning decades from now to take back the planet. Not only would that be bad, but it would be the end of all of our lives; and that would be the best case scenario. 
    Walking into the ballroom was like stepping into another world. Everything was so big and overdone. The hotel was transformed into something so surreal that you could easily forget where you were and be swept off into another dimension. It was a night that dreams where made of, an event where you could just forget who you were, lose classes and ranks, and just be. It was easy to get caught up in the magic of it all if you weren’t careful, but then again none of these beasts had to worry about being careful. 
    The costumes were as unbelievable as ever. The men’s were simple; they wore a suit and a mask. Oddly enough, looking around from man to man, it was clear that none of the masks were alike. That was pretty impressive in itself. There are only so many different faces in the world; well, I guess in the universe, but then I guess