meme #004 | slow-dancing ( think outside the boxstep )

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slow dancing ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ a meme → COMMENT WITH YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME, FANDOM, AND PREFERENCE. → PICK A CHARACTER YOU WANT TO TAG AND GO FOR IT. → PLAY NICE; NO WANK, FLAMES, OR GENERAL HUMBUGGERY. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ the deal FORMAL OR INFORMAL, WITH MUSIC OR WITHOUT, YOU COULD BE AT A GLAMOUROUS GALA WHILE A SINGER CROONS SOFTLY OR IN THE SILENCE OF YOUR OWN LIVING ROOM. WHEREVER YOU ARE, YOU HAVE THE URGE TO DANCE. DID YOU ASK YOUR PARTNER OR DID THEY ASK YOU? HAVE YOU GOT TWO LEFT FEET OR IS THE VIENNESE WALTZ YOUR JAM? IT COULD BE AWKWARD, IT COULD BE ROMANTIC. EITHER WAY IT'S CUTE AS HELL.

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[northerner]

[ robb has never been to a ball before anatole. there were feasts, but those were a different matter entirely, and there had sometimes been dancing at the tavern, but that had also been a different business. but he manages this waltz, mimics the couples around them and avoid her feet, the hem of her dress.

she's a quiet girl with something very sad about her, something that reminds robb of westeros, so he holds her a little more tightly, a little more securely, when they move about the floor. ]

I've never been to a ball, not even at my home, let alone in the capital. If I do something wrong, you must instruct me on the right way to do it.

[madannie]

[She appreciates the added security even if she doesn't know him well -- for the most part, people in Anatole seem more willing to help. Maybe it was because they all had to deal with whatever the strange place sent at them. Nobody from the Capitol would care to left a finger for anyone else from the Districts until their food supplies were cut off.]

You're doing fine. Thank you for asking me to dance.

[She smiles.]

I didn't go to these functions often. Finnick was invited to more.

[Having Haymitch at anything reserved for Victors was enough of a handful that she was sure she'd have just gotten in the way.]

[northerner]

I was glad to do it.

[ even if robb himself only barely knew the steps, wasn't certain of them and followed her lead to keep from stepping on her dress or her feet. or both. ]

Why did you come this time?

[madannie]

I thought it might make me more comfortable here.

[Being out in public and not paraded around like a creature to be gawked at is -- nice.]

It's different from Panem. If I remind myself of that...

[--what, exactly? Maybe she can get better? She doesn't think those nightmares will ever actually leave her, especially the ones that seem to crawl up into her waking hours.]

Things might be easier.