Garage Door Description

The Sagara family Springsun Equinox Celebration transcends its reputation within the first minute, and Hoshi grows more self-satisfied in each minute thereafter. Such effort to reach the opportunity of this most consequential stage, and already such visceral (if nonessential) payoff. Lady Effie Sagara, for all her underhanded machinations, is peerless in the creation of perfect atmosphere. This may prove to be the best sunrise of Hoshi’s life.
The manse is immense, of course, but the celebration is being held entirely in the foyer of the East wing: a garden-like room of many levels, fountains, and flowers; twin sweeping staircases lead to what must be small entertaining rooms along the balcony. The surfaces of the room are smooth, almost soft in the green and yellow light. Clean rectangular lines and circular windows prevail; the decorative patterns along the ceiling and moulding are delicate and complex, but orderly. The garage doors match the motif of the house splendidly.
Drinks float across the marble floor beneath tawny, adolescent servers. The music is inescapably rhythmic, but also richly melodic: driven by the sweet falsetto of a live Nightengale youth, violins, bowed guitars, chimes, and lightly plucked piano. A few married couples orbit around the floor, and the chandeliers seem to rotate in tandem, sending bars and discs of prismed light slowly drifting across the partygoers.
And what partygoers. Hoshi’s face grows tense with the excitement of it. The Sagara family is precisely tasteful in demonstrating its enormous wealth, but no pretense is made with regards to their political influence.  The Lord Commander’s Deputy himself is present; Lord Ojai is a crisp, extremely good-looking man with a charming laugh and undeniable stage-presence, and seeing his interactions with various lords and ladies of the court cements Hoshi’s impression of him as the real seat of power on Imperial Ryujin.