The Salle, Monday Morning

[bitchprince]

Fighting Ben still in SP last night had been somewhat cathartic. It hadn't been cathartic enough not to send Arthur back down to the salle with a sword and a mission to use it. So there he was, slicing clean but sure along the lines of a dummy with said practice sword.

There were few times in the week he felt anywhere near at ease. This was probably the most reliable.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Dinah said, pleased. "The drills Leto taught you?" Karla appeared to be doing well at them, too.

[glacial_queen]

"Precisely," Karla said. "If I treat the footwork like dancing, I've found I can focus on my knife a bit better. I probably would have enjoyed my lessons with the dancing master that much more if I'd been able to have a knife during them, too."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"It does, doesn't it? If you can find the rhythm, it's one less thing to think about, and one more thing to just do," Dinah agreed. "Ben Skywalker showed me some of that too." She grinned. "What kind of dancing did you do back in Kaehleer?"

[glacial_queen]

"Ben is a good male," Karla agreed. "I think Jon said this world would consider the dancing I did as 'ballroom dancing.' That's where I used most of my lessons, anyway. Though I learned a lot of other kind of dancing too, mostly from Jaenelle. And she learned dances from all sorts of people."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"He's a good guy." Dinah grinned, then bit her lip. "Hope he and Tahiri are okay after last week." She nodded at Karla's explanation and said, "We should go dancing with people sometime. Well, after you hear some of our modern music. You might hate it, so no point exposing you to a club full of people dancing to it if you do."

[glacial_queen]

"Uhhh, yeah, I hope they are too," Karla said, flushing a bit. The roof had been...interesting.

"I heard some at Chuck Bass's birthday party. It seemed okay," she added hastily, changing the subject away from Ben and Tahiri. She didn't mention the 'dancing' she'd seen. It still looked too much like writhing for it to really count.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Cool." Dinah shot a glance Arthur's way. "Some people hate it. Good. Tony and I have been talking about doing this forever. We really just need to pick a night and go up and down the halls knocking on doors to drag people out. Dances here aren't the same, with all the chaperones around."

[glacial_queen]

"Count me in," Karla said automatically. "As long as it is not a time when I would prefer not to go out." Any activity with Tony and Dinah was likely to be fun, even if she didn't understand what was going on.

She followed Dinah's glance. "I'm not surprised," she said, biting back a grin. "I was needling him earlier. It was fun."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah gave her an exasperated look, lips twitching. "That's my job!" Then grinned. "Don't push it too far. He's not a bad guy. He's taught me a lot this year." A flourish of her blade, then a grin. "Even if he never gives out compliments."

[glacial_queen]

"I said 'needling,' not harrassing," she replied innocently. "I save that for people I truly like or truly despise. Arthur falls in neither category. But just think. Now he's all ready for your lesson!"

She grinned. "I truly like you, Dinah."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah grinned back. "Back at you, Karla. And yes, thanks for, um. Softening him up?" She rolled her eyes, then grinned. "As far as granite gets softer, that is."

Well, no, he wasn't that much of a rock. But he was about as unyielding as one.

[glacial_queen]

"I'll let you get to him then. So he doesn't have more reason to grow frustrated by my presence." Her smile suggested his frustration with her tasted a bit like candy.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Wicked, Karla." Dinah grinned, and twirled her sword. "Have fun with the knives?" Verbal and literal. "And talk to you later."

[glacial_queen]

"Kiss kiss," she said with a grin.