Take part in the Meine Liebe Quickfire Challenge (Round #5)

Get ready for the next quickfire! Last round brought forth amusing responses and some various uses of "in vino veritas" ^_^

Quickfire challenge #5:
Write 3 to 6 lines with the keyword dignity and / or suspicious.

Mine is a 2x6 chain, one is related to the other. Admittedly, I'm really stretching the 6 line limit this time XD

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At the end of his monologue, everyone was still confused as ever.
"Could you repeat that. Slowly. One more time ?" Eduard ventured, for the sake of everyone's peace of mind.
Orpherus looked frustrated, but obliged.
All eyes were fixed on the suspicious shirt of deep violet silk he was wearing, even as the agitated blonde spun a convoluted tale of a fountain, a duel, Byzantine civil reforms, the demise of several aquatic plants and Lui's "accidental" trip.
"I was soaked! And then the Duchess..... Lui's mother......." Orphe gestured at the shirt as if trying to make a point, the overlong sleeves slipping pathetically down his arm.
Eduard's resolve - if there was indeed any - to preserve his friend's dignity died with a tell-tale tremor of shoulders and stifled sounds, forcing Naoji to kick him. Hard. Under the table.

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"Don't be ungrateful."
"I'm not ungrateful," replied the blonde obstinately.
"Then you're being childish." Ludwig turned away from the view outside, long locks suspiciously damp, but a picture of fashionable dignity. "Would you rather my mother ignored you ? Refused her hospitality and be shamed in front of half the country's nobles ?"
"You pushed me in." Orpherus stood, his tone accusing. He was decked in evening finery - in Ludwig's signature colors - which fit him rather well in more ways than one (Camus turned out to be a genius with pins, you see).
From the windows came a sound that was altogether too dignified to be a snort. "And then threw myself in after you ?"
They met halfway across the room, glaring. Neither broke their gaze for the longest time. "There's a speck of leaf in your hair," Orpherus said finally, with no small amount of satisfaction, turning on his heel before the other could respond.

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After some thought, I feel it may be better for the quickfire if there was a longer interval in between each one, that is, one week or so, sometimes depending whenever I'm free. This pacing will hopefully give everyone enough time to participate in the quickfire challenges and still work on your homework, studies, icon-making, fanfiction (hopefully!) or other stuff that you usually do ^_^