[THE Ka]

Rasputina if she could remember, (and she finally did) that she rarely danced and that she did not like to partake in the act of it. Did that make her strange from her kin who, found dancing a worthy activity to pass time. She would roll her eyes at this and continue to practice her cello. When her mother had wished to teach how to walk, she would also teach Rasputina how to dance and how all steps were free to expression. She had love this when she was very young, being nothing more than a wild child she would skip, hop, trot, spin and whatever else she felt like as she walked through the forest. When she had been given her one and only cello, she soon was swept up in a new passion much forgetting her old passion.

Now, the old memories arose themselves upon her. She watched these people dancing, in their neat, orderly and moralistic way to fit the tune of the music. She never could do this and she never wanted to. Her form of dancing expression was utterly 'uncivilized' compared to these people's. She could just imagine it - nice little circles of people spinning ever so orderly then she wouls start, and the circles would be cast about. Literally a heathen amongst angels. She was scared. She did not know how to dance, and that was that.

She was reluctant to dispose this information to Derufin. How would he or anyone else take such a gesture?

Summing up some courage, she walked over to him, and wispered into his ear about her dancing history...