The Empress's palace wasn't that far from Beric's. Yeon Jin could actually walk there but to make a good impression on the nobles and aristocrats that would be present, he needed to be seen coming down from a carriage.
Not like they would know who he was just by looking at him. Aside from the fact that the nobles and aristocrats had never seen how he looked before now, he was wearing a mask.
It was a freaking masquerade ball so no one would know who he was.
Yeon Jin sighed as he shifted his gaze from outside the carriage to Philip. Everything was just so flashy that he felt his eyes would actually turn blind.
Philip was silently sitting across him with his gaze nowhere in particular.
Yeon Jin wanted to ask him when Beric would arrive but he decided against it. Seeing that he asked him to go on ahead, it was clear that he wouldn't make it to the first part of the ball.
"Will you go in with me?" Yeon Jin asked and Philip shook his head.