Page 24 of I Dated a Golden Vampire
“If they live in the islands, they probably know each other.”Cabree was coming to that realization.
“Yeah, but why would they team up?”
Cabree let it come to her.Pria sat there and suddenly went, “Oh.And they know because of the pictures.”
“Correct.If Roil was as fixed on you as I think, he was just waiting until you were no longer his apprentice.”
Pria looked thoughtful.“There wasn’t a provision for intimacy in my service contract.”
“If he were interested, he would have found a way.”
“Maybe.Maybe not.All I know is he was like a porcelain god of the waves.”
Cabree laughed.
They went through the other courses, and when they were listening to the soft music playing, Cabree asked, “Do you dance?”
“Just Sethir-Nin folk dances that I learned before I activated.”
“Could you teach me?I had to learn couples’ dances, but I haven’t done much independent dancing.”
“Well, I know the folk dances but not the couples’ dances.I never saw the point.”
“Do you want to trade knowledge?We have another day at sea tomorrow, docking at night.”
“Sure.I can teach you what I know.It isn’t much.”
“Well, couples’ dances are easier, so I will show you those first.Tonight.Do you mind learning in public?”
“I would prefer to learn without images being taken.We have burned up the chat boards just by inhaling too deeply.”
“Fair enough.”Cabree laughed.“The room is big enough to learn.”
They sat and talked for a few minutes before they got up and headed back to the room.Pria tested her access, and the door opened easily.
Cabree said, “Well, that was fun.”
“I imagine half of the couples in that room are going to be thinking about one of us in bed tonight.”Pria smiled.
“You think only half?You have a passive pheromone load that could seduce a priest.”Cabree giggled.
“Oh.That’s new.”
“You were newly activated when you were injured.It probably matured as you did.”
“Ah.That would explain a few things.When I use water, it decreases.”
Cabree got some music up on her com and led Pria to the centre of the living room.“Okay, this is a simple box step.”
They went through the steps of a few dances.Pria trusted her partner.That much was obvious.
When Pria tried to show the folk dances, Cabree was lost to laughter.“That is a Sethir folk dance?”
Pria had found a sash and tied it around her hips, and those hips moved smoothly or with eye-catching jerks to a shimmy of shoulders.
“Yeah.We learn this when we are kids.You mimic the adults until you are a teen and start getting attention.At that point, you only perform when your family is there to protect you.”
Cabree watched and blinked.“I don’t think I can learn that.Pretty sure that even with Denog’s efforts, my hips don’t move like that.”
