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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3901273" data-attributes="member: 29014">*Zoe joins in the improvisation quite excitedly, though with his nearly-unwavering gaze towards her eyes, he can see that she isn't looking back into his nearly as often.  Perhaps because she is not paying as much attention or perhaps because he does well catching the rhythm of the allegro upbeat dance, she turns out to be only slightly better at dancing this than he is, and she is clearly more used to this song.  He is barely watching the others, but at a glance, he can still tell that Elise is simply fantastic--he would have been much more outmatched with Elise, whereas with Zoe, the two are more in tandem.  Zoe seems to be looking towards Elise a goodly percentage of the time, too.**As Gabriel and Zoe pass another couple, the assertive young man from the last group who was dominating a conversation as well as the girl with the long dark hair who was listening to him, he barely notices, because he is almost exclusively watching Zoe, that something, perhaps a handkerchief, drops from her pocket, and at the next instant, the two of them spin to the side, and there is the sound of a minor thump, as the man trips and falls to the ground.  A small pocket forms around him to let him and his partner get their bearings to start again.**Later in the song, Zoe and Gabriel head into an increasingly rapid series of spins, right  next to Elise and Gerard, actually, with the beautiful girl with full lips and a dazzling smile who moved through the conversations like quicksilver on the other side.  Not to be outdone, Elise subtly guides Gerard into leading into an impressive tricky series of pirouettes that complements Gabriel's and Zoe's.  Constantly reading Zoe's body language to continue as she is leading, he notices that her hand darts in the wrong direction momentarily and she stifles a grin, but then she's back to usual for the spin, and with the rapidity of the turn, she is on her way away and into a different shift of steps for the next segment of the Capriccio, as suddenly Gabriel finds a lovely hand coming in to slap him from the side with the girl whose name he doesn't know yet (he can easily dodge it if he wants, or take it, as he chooses).*</blockquote>

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