[ If Bastien had imagined a dance from a world that produced Wysteria de Foncé née Poppell—well, he wouldn't really have imagined this one. That would require a lot more prescience than he possesses. But watching her perform the charming little kicks and turns engenders a sense of backwards-reaching familiarity, until he's sure he would have imagined exactly this.

While he follows alongside her to circle around the floor, he echoes her footwork off and on, with restrained half-imitations that might help him remember when the time comes. ]

Was your music played with these sorts of instruments?

[ He is multitasking, turning a slow circle on the spot to watch her more bouncy circle him. ]

Monsieur Stark and some of the others rave [ incessantly! ] about electric guitars. Did you have those?