[location: a random dance studio in taxon] just dance got canned heat in my heels tonight baby

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Seeing as Dawn and River obviously do not cause enough trouble when left to their devices, they have joined forces. After the dance at the Hyperion-- and discovering they both used to dance-- they've been quickly becoming fast friends. And when Dawn decided they both needed to start dancing again, she dragged River out to a small studio she found

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River is practicing her Fouetté en tournants. Not thirty-two, because unless you're actually doing Swan Lake it's a bit overkill, but she stops at around twenty and moves into a Grand plié before straightening up.

She is smiling.

My god, Dawn, what have you done?

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Here, River, have a stuck out tongue. "Show off." But Dawn is grinning, and the quick series of Échappé sur les pointes is relaxed, and natural. She's not as amazing as River, but she can hold her own.

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Dawn gets one right back. Rond de jambe next, followed by adagios. "Requires an audience," she says as she ever so steadily stretches her leg out behind her, then in front, then to the side and then back again, focusing on balance and smoothness of movement. Don't like it, don't look at it, Dawn.

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Dawn sits for a moment, happy to just watch River. "You're amazing, you know that, right? Like okay, I'm really good. You're... I don't think I could make my body do some of that."

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River? Blushing? What is this lies? Actually, she is, at least as she goes into arabesque and just... Holds it.

"Agility was encouraged."

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"Agility accomplished." Dawn obligingly whistles, impressed.

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River laughs and wobbles at the noise. "Cheater," she says as she straightens, still smiling.