It is, yes. Quick enough to pick up though, and if not, put your feet atop mine.
[They'll cheat because they can and who will say a word? Alucard's quiet for a moment more, and here he does need to offer his arm instead of his hand because that's more proper for dancing.
Dinner will be in half an hour yet, which means that if they go for ten minutes in dancing, then while away the remaining twenty, they will be a third of the way through the night. It is silly, counting down, but it helps Alucard remain so very sane and so very, very grounded in what he must do.
This though, as much as this is politics it is also pleasure. Because it is an excuse to be close to her, to have her body pressed against his, to ignore the world for just a few precious minutes while the noise and the music and the heady smells drift over them both. They can ignore all of those things and focus on each other.]
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[They'll cheat because they can and who will say a word? Alucard's quiet for a moment more, and here he does need to offer his arm instead of his hand because that's more proper for dancing.
Dinner will be in half an hour yet, which means that if they go for ten minutes in dancing, then while away the remaining twenty, they will be a third of the way through the night. It is silly, counting down, but it helps Alucard remain so very sane and so very, very grounded in what he must do.
This though, as much as this is politics it is also pleasure. Because it is an excuse to be close to her, to have her body pressed against his, to ignore the world for just a few precious minutes while the noise and the music and the heady smells drift over them both. They can ignore all of those things and focus on each other.]