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"It's like the waltz, except you start to the side."

Garishi tentatively held Hikaru in closed position. She had already convinced Garishi to waltz, so the next logical step was rumba, they figured.

"To the left side?" he asked, reasonably self-conscious. Hikaru and Kaede were trying to get him to take ballroom dancing classes like they were. He was something of their project, of late.

Kaede sat on the bed with a bowl of moose tracks. "You'll always start to the left," She took a bite, smiling into her spoon. "Or, at least, with your left foot."

Garishi kind of nodded absently and readjusted his hold on Hikaru.

"Try it for a while without music," Kaede proffered.

"Quick-quick-slow," reminded Hikaru, her eyes roughly level with Garishi's.

And they danced. While Kaede talked from the bed. (with her ice cream)