and i dance dance dance, and i dance dance dance

[ravenly]

Who: Rue & you!
Where: Various buildings in Vatheon
When: Daytime. Sort of a delayed response to Siegfried's announcement about ballet classes.
Style: Whichever
Status: OPEN!!!

(Too small. Too old--too dirty. When is the last time someone picked up in here?)

[...Ugh. Rue shakes her head, walking out of yet another building. She's gotten used to this stupid thought bubble following her around for the week, though it is no less inconvenient...

She is looking for a place to quietly practice ballet now, since she's evidently going to be teaching lessons. She has no idea how to feel about it honestly; but her prince had garned quite a bit of interest, so she figures it'd be best to be prepared.

Around her neck rests a small music player, attached to headphones; she is familiarizing herself with the music she plans to dance to. It would be a hassle to deal with the cords while doing so, however. But luckily, the building she's finally settled on has a set of larger speakers she can hook everything up to.

...It takes her a moment to figure it out, but it seems to work just fine.

Taking a last peek to see that she's not being watched, she begins with an easy routine that she's done many times before.]


(( OOC: feel free to run into her as she's searching for the building, or walk in on her dancing later! ))

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while wandering about!

[lamorteblanc]

[ So he was heading out of his apartment as always, just about to pop over for his coffee and whatever looked good before heading to the cafe when he chances upon Rue.

Welp, his coffee can wait. Choosing instead to approach.]

Miss Rue? Is everything alright?

[ravenly]

[Wearing headphones, Rue does not realize she is being addressed, at first. But then she catches a faint sound that sounds a bit like her name. She thinks nothing of it at first, but feeling as if she was being watched, she takes the darn things off and turns.

...Oh!]

Doctor, hello.

(......how long has he been there?)

[lamorteblanc]

[ Prolly just long enough to see her coming out of somewhere, no biggie. But he greets her with a nod of his head. ]

You seemed to be in search of something, if you'll allow a guess. Do you need some help?

[ravenly]

Ah-- [Well, of course he'd notice. But Rue doesn't seem to let it bother her. She merely shrugs her shoulders.] Probably not anything to concern yourself with, doctor.

I'm merely looking for a suitable place to practice.

[Dancng comes so second nature to her, she doesn't think to specify what.]

[lamorteblanc]

[ Hey, when you've been stuck in his bubble as long as he has, any change of pace is welcome. ]

Any chance to help a lady. What sort of practice are you thinking to get?

[ Because you don't really strike him as the combat type, Rue. ]

[ravenly]

[That would be because she isn't. Although she could still be pretty fierce in her crow form as Princess Kraehe!

...This is so much more important than that, though.]

...Ballet, actually. Dance.

[Some images are forming in her thought bubble of the kinds of routines she'd like to work on.]

I just need a quiet room of some sort with enough space, where I can play the necessary music.

Oooh dancing...

[bountyofthesun]

[Hideyoshi is wandering around the city, a bag full of newly purchased sweets tossed over his shoulder, whistling and happy as a clam, when he hears the music.

Even if he weren't as curious by nature as he is, it's a hard, no, impossible thing to ignore. He recognizes it as music, but not of any kind that he had ever heard in his life. The sounds and rhythm and pitch are all entirely wrong - no - not wrong, he thinks, pausing, then turning to track down the sound. Different, but right, whatever that means...

A bit of searching later, and he finds the house - is a little surprised to find that it doesn't look normally occupied. But there's no doubt that the music is coming from the inside, and by now he's too curious to stop. He edges toward one of the windows and glues his face to the glass to look in. It would have to be a pretty sizable musicians' troupe... so where is it?]

[ravenly]

[No musician's troupe awaits him, sadly. Just one lone girl, completely oblivious to the goings on around her while the music is playing. She isn't one to leave a routine unfinished, so she gives no aknowledgement to her "audience"--as she simply hasn't noticed him.

And once all is said and done, she breathes a sigh as the music fades away, a big finishing pose as it does.j

There already seem to be some improvements to the routine in mind, if her thought bubble is any indication. Alternate moves and skills replacing old ones, the entire thing playing in her mind like a video tape.

She seems to be considering it very deeply...]

[bountyofthesun]

[Once he gets past the shock of the music coming from nowhere - or rather from a set of machines, which is only a little bit less shocking - he feels a little guilty for looking in on her like that. But only a little. She is very pretty, and very skilled as far as he can judge, and could that be the 'ballet' thing that the prince had mentioned on the network?

Well - what she doesn't know won't hurt her, he thinks reasonably, and hops to, from the window to the door. He knocks on it and calls out, as though he doesn't know the answer already:]

Hellooo - anyone in?

[ravenly]

[The interruption causes her thought bubble to kind of "pop," its contents disappearing...but then some ellipses appear to take their place as she turns to greet her new guest. She looks a but frightened at first at the sudden intrusion, but it wears off quickly.]

...Hello. Were you looking for someone?

[bountyofthesun]

[Thankfully, short and unimpressive and funny-looking as he is, Hideyoshi doesn't cut a very intimidating figure. He immediately smiles at her when she opens the door, although he is a little disappointed to see the change in her bubble. Her mental exercises were almost as fascinating as the physica ones.]

No, no, [he shakes his head.] I passed by and heard the music, that's all. Was that you playing? Where do you hide the extra arms?

[ravenly]

...Extra--

[She's about to repeat the phrase, when she realizes how ridiculous it sounds. Although Gold Crown did have many kinds of people, both human and not-so-much, where multiple arms are possible...so perhaps it's not so ridiculous after all.

She is distracted enough, though, that she doesn't even answer the first question.]

Excuse me?

[Congratulations, Hideyoshi, you are treated to the mental image of Rue with multiple arms, in her thought bubble.

How embarrassing!]

[lowlands]

[Ha ha. Walk in? Yeah right. He thought he heard something shady going on but all he finds is a girl dancing. Rather than saying anything, he observes her through a crack without making his presence known.]

Sorry for the delay, Ria dear!

[ravenly]

[Oh. WELL that's pretty shady, stranger. But other than an odd and sudden sensation that she's being watched, Rue notices nothing. She simply looks alarmed for a moment, an exclamation point appearing in her thought bubble--

And then she goes back to her dance; starting it from the top, since she'd been interrupted.]

IDK PLEASE WORK DW...

[lowlands]

[All is well until she starts dancing a little out of way from his viewpoint. It's a hassle but alright. He's not exactly the most subtle of people once he's resolved to do something. He drags a chair from the hallway, busts into the room, and takes a seat near the door, some distance away from her. It's not that he means to interrupt so he won't have her stopping if he can help it.]

Keep dancing.

1/2

[ravenly]

[...WHAT.

Wait a minute, where did he come from?!]

kdlsjas I cackled so hard and have to share: http://i.imgur.com/5FtJv.png

[ravenly]

[AND WHO EVEN BURSTS IN ON A LADY LIKE THAT...?

She has no idea, but her concentration's completely broken now. Her thought bubble pops and reforms, as she tries to recover.]

W-Who are you?!

SCREAM WHY WOULD YOU SCREENSHOT THAT

[lowlands]

The Netherlands.

[He glares at her change in performance.]

You're sloppy.

BECAUSE IT MADE ME SMILE and i was having a really crappy night fff

[ravenly]

[She is glaring right back.

...The Netherlands, though? Strange. Very strange. It's just too bad she doesn't care much about it at the moment.]

Yes. That tends to happen when I'm so rudely interrupted.

[ practicing ]

[by_my_will]

[Tieria heard the music from the larger speaker as he came near the building. Curious, he wandered over to look inside and find out what was going on. He watched for a bit, not wanting to interrupt as it looked like she was concentrating. He would wait for the music to stop.]

Sorry for the delay <3

[ravenly]

[The music does stop eventually. And Rue turns once she is done, finding herself suddenly in his presence. A quick gasp and the shock wears off, so she is able to greet him calmly.]

...Tieria. Hello.

no problem ^_^

[by_my_will]

Rue.

You are a dancer?

[Tieria had danced... once. And it was for an undercover mission. What she had been doing was quite beyond what he knew.]

[ravenly]

...I am. I have been, for a very long time, in fact.

[For about as long as she can remember, actually. And she's excelled for about that long, too.]

I did not notice you come in, though.

[by_my_will]

You were concentrating. I did not want to disturb you.

[ravenly]

That is all right. I suppose I was done anyway.

[She hadn't really had the chance to critique herself, but that could wait.]

What brings you here today?