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Post by mysterykitten on Jul 14, 2012 20:37:31 GMT -5
[ Pffffff ]
Marshall paused, "Dancing?" he echoed, before shaking his head. "No, I don't know how to dance at all." the soldier admitted. He had never really thought about learning to dance at all, the tom has told himself before that he was way too clumsy for dancing, his movement was only graceful when he was sword fighting, which he practiced more often than not.
The soldier was curious on why he had never seen this cat before in the squares, perhaps it was because he never really stopped to look at anything, he just went in, did what he needed to do, and then left.
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Post by Kitsani on Jul 14, 2012 20:40:52 GMT -5
"Bummer," She mused. "It's a lot of fun, you know," Jet shrugged, continuing along as her gaze started to rest on her paws. She didn't really know where she was headed as she continued along the sandy shore, the cool breeze ruffling her pelt uncomforatbly. "And it's not really something you have to know," she added, "It's something you feel," A smile bloomed on her face again. "I could try to teach you a few things if you'd lke, who knows, maybe you'd be good at it," she chided, flickign her tail and thinking about how on earth she could even teach somebody to dance.
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Post by mysterykitten on Jul 14, 2012 21:38:00 GMT -5
Marshall raised a brow. Something you feel...? He repeated the phrase in his mind a couple of times, before replying to the she-cat. "I think I'd be pretty bad at it..." The tom took his sword off of his back and set it on the sand, so he could sit down right next to it. Sinking his toes into the grains of the beach, he looked out over the waters, watching the tides rise and recede, frowning as he did so.
Him? Get taught how to dance? Not believable, Marshall thought of himself as way to clumsy.
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Post by Kitsani on Jul 15, 2012 9:13:43 GMT -5
"Lets find out," Jet yipped eagerly. "Come on, nobody is that bad at it!" she purred the lie. There was that one blacksmith, Kite, who couldn't dance to save his life, and Jet imagined there were probably others out there too who had four left paws. She hoped not, at least, and smiled. She held out a paw to the cat who was sitting on the shore, an innocent grin on her face. She loved to dance, and whenever she could snag one with somebody, she cherished it. Especially if she gained a friendship out of it, which she has when she thought back to Misto and Zahara.
My post is like a ninja. Hard to see, but yet it's there *SHOT*
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Post by mysterykitten on Jul 16, 2012 22:36:22 GMT -5
"Wh-Wha?" Marshall was clearly shocked when the she-cat held out her paw to him. Blinking, he grabbed her paw very hesitantly and let the dancer pull him to his feet. His heart wasn't all into this dancing thing, but hey, might as well give it a try? Brushing as much sand as he could out of his fur, he looked to the sokoke. "Okay, now what do you want me to do?" he meowed, crossing his arms, he was counting the seconds until he made himself look like an idiot.
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Post by Kitsani on Jul 26, 2012 15:12:21 GMT -5
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“What do I want you to do?” She echoed with a slight laugh. “You can’t really… well, teaching dancing is something hard. It’s something you feel,” she exclaimed pointedly, flicking her tail as she pulled the tentative tom closer so she could put a free paw on his shoulder and take one of his own paws in hers. “Alright, and now you kind of just…move like this,” she pointed out with an innocent smirk, starting one of the easiest dances she could recall, hoping the tall tom would follow her steps.
It was odd, dancing along the beach with a cat she had never met before just now, but she was determined to at least teach somebody a few new moves, so this was a great opportunity, wouldn’t you say? The salty tang in the air and the waves crashing in the background distracted her slightly, making it harder for her to dance as well as she normally would, as the tinkling of her bells seemed a bit fainter than usual with the slightly slower movements. But when she thought about it, maybe it was even better that way; Marshall should have an easier time following along, and the shifting sand beneath them actually helped the moving of their paws in more graceful, connected ways, and she smiled cheerfully as she glanced back up at Marshall to see how he was holding up in the dance.
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Post by mysterykitten on Jul 27, 2012 19:22:21 GMT -5
At first the tom's dancing movements were stiff and hesitant with uneasiness, but slowly he got more and more comfortable as he mimicked Jet's movements more and more easily with little mistakes. Occasionally he'd make a small mistake, a miss-step here or a stumble there, but he'd quickly recover and go back to mimicking. With each step Marshall felt more confident, not exactly confident enough to go out in public to dance, but the soldier was getting better.
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Post by Kitsani on Aug 3, 2012 9:14:09 GMT -5
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“There you go, you’re getting better!” Jet purred, subtly dancing a little faster. She had to hand it to him, for a fighter of a tom, he was pretty light on his feet, and wasn’t doing back of a job mimicking her motions. She enjoyed dancing with others, and smiled cheerfully as they moved across the beach. “And you thought you’d be terrible at it,” she scoffed innocently. He had managed not to step on her toes yet, which she was grateful for, or fall on her or something. Most felines usually stumbled a lot more than Marshall did on their first tries at the smooth moves. She noticed they had danced closer to the water, and started trying to veer them away, sticking her tongue out at the ocean as if to say: Nyeh, I don’t want to get my paws wet right now! Jet wasn’t a big lover of water. She could swim gracefully enough, but being wet was uncomfortable and icky. She simply wasn’t fond of it, and has yet to find a situation where she enjoyed it. Short post is super short. Bawwwww.
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Post by mysterykitten on Aug 3, 2012 11:03:05 GMT -5
[Pfff whatever lol ]
Marshall rolled his eyes as she scoffed. "Alright," he said. "I'll admit, I'm not terrible at it, but still pretty bad." the soldier stuck his tongue out at the sokoke in a teasing manner. The tom detected a sort of rhythm to the dance, he could tell the pace had risen...and it even matched the beat to a song he knew...
No. Marshall told himself. Don't sing. Don't sing! But it was too late, the burning sensation of desire in his throat had taken over, and he had started to sing. Even with another cat there....he was enjoying it.
The song was quick paced, and went along perfectly with whatever dance this was.
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Post by Kitsani on Aug 6, 2012 21:41:51 GMT -5
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“Not. Bad.” She meowed firmly with an innocent smirk. Damn, the marbled feline could never be serious for more than a few minutes. Those few minutes were usually when she was wallowing in self-pity, but when she got over herself and how much her current predicament in life sucked, she was really an upbeat cat. She loved to dance, and even sing a tune or two when nobody was around. Speaking of singing, she glanced back at Marshall, who seemed to have brought up a tune, unable to resist the love for the music.
She paused in surprise. He was…singing? Jet’s blue eyes flashed in mild confusion. She didn’t know how to dance to a rhythm of a voice! She slowed herself to think. No, she didn’t have to sing to the voice, but she knew how to move along to the beat of the song he was singing in general. She laughed slightly and carried along, dancing and moving to the newfound beat and listening bemusedly to the lyrics of the tune. But what had caught her in an off-guard surprise wasn’t that he was singing, but that he was singing in front of her. She felt a pang of admiration; she knew she couldn’t even hum when a soul was around. But yet this tom seemed at ease, enjoying himself, even! Baffled, she just snapped shut her mouth and carried on with the dance, a small smile on her maw.
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Post by mysterykitten on Aug 6, 2012 22:16:06 GMT -5
Marshall was practically grinning from ear to ear as he sang. He was enjoying this time, and it looked like the sokoke was enjoying it too. Below them on the sand were many impression marks that their feet had made during this dance. Man, they had danced in one huge circle, but being so into the music and beat, the soldier didn't notice till now.
The song was almost over, should there be some sort of grand ending move? The tom tried to think back to all the couple dancers he'd seen in the streets before. Here it comes, the final long note. What should he do? What should he do! Aha! Perfect! At the final long note of the song, he had his arm placed around her upper back, the other paw had Jet's in it. Marshall leaned her back carefully, but also gracefully, still holding the final note. When he finally cut himself off, it felt like his lungs were empty, and he was breathing rather deeply while looking at Jet, a grin still on his face.
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Post by Kitsani on Aug 15, 2012 17:16:23 GMT -5
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The she-cat hung there in the dip, also panting quietly as she mirrored Marshall’s grin. “Now that wasn’t so bad, was it?” she mewed between breaths, letting out a slight laugh. She didn’t move from the dip until several moments later, rolling aside gracefully with a flick of her tail. She stood up straighter now, sand clinging stubbornly to her paws. “Yerch,” she huffed, shaking her hind paws but letting out an exasperated sigh as she remained feeling dirty and gritty. She glanced over at the ocean. She knew if she got her paws wet, sand would only cling to her like a walking beach herself. However, she couldn’t help the urge, and with an eager bounce she glanced over at Marshall. “Wanna come swimming with me? Sand is stupid,” she chided casually, slipping off the buckle attaching the bell belt to her waist and fumbling with it slightly when it kept snagging. She turned her attention to it, finally getting the thing off and hoping over to a log where she set it down, but not too far from the shore so she could rush and grab it if anyone got grabby paws. She skipped off towards the water now, hoping in and shivering. “Ahh, cold cold cold!” She exclaimed, doing a little dance and glancing over her shoulder to see if the singing, dancing, warrior-like cat decided to come in as well. It had been agesss since Jet had last gone swimming, and she really hoped she still remembered how to do it and didn’t drown or something!
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Post by mysterykitten on Aug 15, 2012 17:37:18 GMT -5
"It wasn't bad at all." Marshall agreed, and perked his ears at the offer of swimming, which he quickly said yes to. The soldier loved to swim, and having another cat to swim with made it so much more fun. Taking his large sword and belt out of the sand, he walked over and placed it next to Jet's belt before looking out to the ocean. Crouching down in a pre-running stance, he began a dead sprint to the water. Once he hit the water, he ran several yards in before jumping out of the water and into the air, doing some sort of twist before being fully submerged in the salty depths with a big splash.
Once the tom's feet hit the sandy bottom, he pushed off so the upper half of his body could be above the water's surface again. "Woo!" He exclaimed, shaking his head rapidly to move his mop of wet hair out of his eyes. The salty water was only cold when he first made contact with it, now it was the perfect temperature since he had gotten used to it rather quickly...or that just meant his body went numb.
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