<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82056.msg3714415#msg3714415">Quote from: Thufir Hawat on 02-10-2010, 22:07:47</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"My reasons are my own, so I choose who to follow, or invite for a dance", he smirked.  "I already danced with one of your - I think she's your niece, actually. But yes, making you suffer my dancing is always helpful! Just let me make this dance a better show! Some wizardry is always helpful in this..."<br/>He pulled a book, which he opened on the necessary page really fast. Than he started an incantation, reading from the book.<br/>He was ready before the time one needs to blink half a dozen times. The magician's skin started glowing bright green, especially at the articulations. When he moved, it was the move of a dancer with years of practice, more dextrous than most people could ever dream of.<br/>"Let's dance!"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Viorica watched his actions with amused humor.  It was easier for a fellow practicioner of magic to appreciate the gumption of a man who would so frivolously have his spellbook at hand with the appropriate incantation.  She noted that the pages were marked, probably for easy reference.  Unlike her brothers and sisters of the Sarista, Viorica was quite literate.  This was ironic to her since her family's spoken tongue was poorly suited to written word.  She often wrote in other tongues when she found it necessary to do so but knew how to scrawl some shorthand that might have been interpreted by a fellow Saristan with some added thought.  More often than not it was for leaving notes to herself.<br/><br/>"Flattery will get you far."  She laughed and allowed him to lead her to the center of camp where the music was louder, the wine was freer and the their dancing was sure to gain notice.  She had little doubt that most of her nieces would have envied a dance or two with him.  She suspected her father had probably already talked his ears off with the possibility of a marriage or two.  It would have amused her to hear how that conversation surely went but he was a very handsome devil despite being a foreigner.<br/>