open | your baddest behavior

[cozen]

WHO: Alexandrie, Bastien, Byerly, and their captive audience
WHAT: Mandatory etiquette and dance lessons
WHEN: Justinian 15, 9:45
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: See the OOC post and IC announcement for more information! If you didn't sign up, you can still participate in Parts A and D, and just handwave the other two, without needing to sign up or get an assignment. If you want to do B and C, you can find your own dance partner/seating group OOC, or you can sign up now and we'll dole out new assignments if we get enough latecomers to do so. If you signed up and are missing from the lists when you shouldn't be, I'm sorry and please tell me!

disclaimer: event less fancy than pictured

Seating Assignments
— Table One: Gwenaëlle, Iorveth, Matthias, Athessa
— Table Two: Flint, Ilias, Darras, Med Seller, Yngvi
— Table Three: Julius, Thranduil, Anders, Brienne
— Table Four: Benedict, Colin, Valentine, Six, Derrica
— Table Five: Teren, Salvio, Bartimaeus, Osana
— Table Six: Freddie, Petrana, Kain, Merrill, Silver
— Table Seven: Yseult, Cosima, Steve, Inessa
— Table Eight: Sidony, Fifi, Nell, Fingon
— Table Nine: Thor, Nathaniel H., Solas, Skadi

Dance Partners
— Cosima & Nathaniel H.
— Athessa & Anders
— Teren & Flint
— Freddie & Bartimaeus
— Yseult & Darras
— Nell & Julius
— Merrill & Colin
— Skadi & Benedict
— Gwenaëlle & Solas
— Petrana & Salvio
— Osana & the Medicine Seller
— Sidony & Matthias
— Six & Thranduil
— Brienne & Valentine
— Fifi & Steve
— Thor & Fingon
— Ilias & Iorveth

Comments

[ipseite]

“You're doing very well,” she says, encouraging, and she doesn't only mean the dancing.

[overharrowed]

"You're humoring me," he says, quieter but warm. "But I'll take the praise all the same."

[ipseite]

“But not insincerely,” she protests, at once, laughing.

[overharrowed]

She's rewarded with a quiet chuckle. "Well, I'll take it. The overall goal is certainly worthwhile, and it's not as if the principles are unfamiliar." Whether he means charming people or footwork isn't necessarily clear. Possibly both.

"Do you remember, when you were new at this sort of thing?"

[ipseite]

Her smile at the thought is both involuntary and ever so slightly touched with something softer and sadder than only nostalgia.

“Of course,” still light, if drawing back some reserve that laughter had loosened from her. “I was a girl, only, but I think myself not yet so old you should be surprised I remember girlhood—”

[overharrowed]

"Very clumsy of me, to comment in a way it can be so misconstrued," he says, raising an eyebrow. "But that said, there are many things I learned to do as a young boy that now seem perfectly natural to me. I remember learning them, yes, but not truly what it felt like to be unskilled at the tasks themselves. Or perhaps that's an unnecessarily fine distinction."