gwenaëlle uses the closeness of the dance and his loose hair as a visual distraction from the fact she's fastening her own mask back into place hastily, one-handed—it's not graceful but it is efficient, something at which she must have some amount of practise already, able to unerringly locate by feel alone where it's meant to attach to the styling of her hair.
what is graceful is the way she lets him lead; relies on him to do it, in fact, so that they are in sync while she's briefly distracted. and one two, and one two, and there we go, and: )
More or less.
( it's a fast-paced song, and her skirts whirl in amongst the garish pastel rainbow of orlais' glittering ladies, and enough people have been drinking that if they hadn't been there a moment ago—well, surely they had? in fact? )
We weren't going to find anything else useful on him, ( the next time she spins close enough to say it where only he'll hear, ) but I thought we could get a good vantage point on how everyone else reacts to finding him from here.
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gwenaëlle uses the closeness of the dance and his loose hair as a visual distraction from the fact she's fastening her own mask back into place hastily, one-handed—it's not graceful but it is efficient, something at which she must have some amount of practise already, able to unerringly locate by feel alone where it's meant to attach to the styling of her hair.
what is graceful is the way she lets him lead; relies on him to do it, in fact, so that they are in sync while she's briefly distracted. and one two, and one two, and there we go, and: )
More or less.
( it's a fast-paced song, and her skirts whirl in amongst the garish pastel rainbow of orlais' glittering ladies, and enough people have been drinking that if they hadn't been there a moment ago—well, surely they had? in fact? )
We weren't going to find anything else useful on him, ( the next time she spins close enough to say it where only he'll hear, ) but I thought we could get a good vantage point on how everyone else reacts to finding him from here.