<span class="bbc_u"><strong>Character's Name:</strong></span>Johara Qussandei<br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Location:</strong></span>The Starting Point tavern<br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>With whom:</strong></span>Jack, whoever else might be nearby<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"You seem to wear that name well," Johara remarked with another smile of her own as she got a chance to better observe Jolly Jack's appropriately jocund countenance. Aided by her rather vast experience in dealing with an extremely varied array of people, her eyes drank in all of the details swiftly and instinctively, and she could clearly tell from the way that the man's lips curled and the way that the skin at the corners of his eyes wrinkled that he was genuinely having a good time. That was most definitely a pleasant surprise compared to almost everyone else that she'd run into ever since arriving in New Evergreen a few days earlier, and it only made Jo's mood that much better as she practically seemed to feed off of the positive energy.<br/><br/>"Johara, the hapless maiden," she added with a tinge of self-deprecating humor as she took a low and respectful bow, which she then pirouetted out of gracefully. "Delighted to make your acquaintance." The statement was punctuated by a sharp thrust of her hips outwards and to the right, her belt and chains clinking in tandem with the percussion of a pair of cymbals as if they were just another one of the band's instruments. Having already jumped into the beat of the music, Jo followed that up with a few more staccato thrusts, each one moving her closer to Jack until finally they were so close that she had to switch and start going back the other way.<br/><br/>She realized that most men weren't really fans of dancing themselves as they were of watching women dance, and that didn't bother her, so she was perfectly fine with dancing<em>for</em>the blue-clad warrior rather than with him until he decided to join in (if he ever did at all). Jo's arms rippled smoothly as she held them out to the sides like two halves of the same snake that was being charmed and hypnotized by the band's melody and Shira's sweet vocals while she showed off a bit more.<br/><br/>Treating Jack to a playful but also quite bewitching smile, Jo started by rolling her well trained stomach muscles in an out so that they moved in a constant wave, giving off the momentary illusion that her body was devoid of ribs. She threw in the occasional hip shimmy or shoulder isolation before finally adding another move that Jack would probably find enjoyable, assuming that the same blood which ran though most men's veins coursed through his as well.<br/><br/>As her belly was fully sucked in and the wave was rolling towards her chest, Johara thrust her solar plexus - and by extension, her pretty generous bust - up and out, adding yet another layer and level to her fluid oscillations. Raising her still-rippling arms vertically above her head to provide that final extension to her movements, her body resembled an undulating wisp of smoke as she kept the illusion going while slowly spinning around to give Jack (and any other onlookers) a clear view from every angle.