Naively, Ravi wasn't expecting a "promposal." He and Diego had already agreed to go together, and he'd already picked out his clothes more than a week ago. When he sees the unfamiliar freshman barge into the LARP session, he's curious but not on alert—she's in costume, after all. It's only when she (loudly) reads the scroll, and Diego's name in their private LARP sessions, that Ravi drops character long enough to look embarrassed.

Embarrassed, but not displeased. He accepts the scroll with a little bow, and tells the "page" to inform her lord that Narain thanks him for the invitation, and will be at his service on the 26th. "Tell him that I expect payment," Ravi adds, grinning. "A dance will do, for starters."

He clutches the scroll to his chest after she leaves, and breathes in the scent of the paper when he thinks no one's looking anymore.