Exploration & Endeavors by Mitt M

Author:Mitt, M.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

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During our second dance together, Archer told me about his two great loves.

While doing so, Georgiana was dancing with Mr. Blake, who had asked her. Naturally Enara and Arthur refused to dance with anyone else other than themselves.

My third dance partner was Miguel Hernandez, then Jacques Lefevre was the fourth—his wife seemed completely unaffected that he danced with every woman other than herself… then again, they seemed to have an arrangement where she danced with every man other than him—and before my fifth, I approached White Wolf.

“Why do you stand there?” I asked him, for he had remained there the entire time, spoke little, and was more like a sentinel than an attendee.

“I thought the answer to that question would be simple,” White Wolf commented.

“I have an untrained eye on these matters. You must help me.”

“It is because no woman here would think to stand up with me.”

My smile faded. Once more, I had not thought of the habits of the outside world that existed beyond my own sphere of existence. Finlay had chided me for that, and I was upset. I had a right to be, but now I understood his frustration.

“I didn’t know,” I responded, quite humiliated.

“It’s not your fault. We are from different worlds.”

“But then…”

“Yes?”

“Well, you never wholly can know unless you ask a woman.”

“What woman would wish of me to ask her?”

“Me. If you will ask me.”

White Wolf’s expression shifted from strong and silent defensiveness, to emotional. But of course, he did it in a quiet sort of manner.

“You would dance with me?” He asked.

“Yes, I would. But you must ask me.”

With his posture more erect, he faced me and offered me his hand.

“Miss Bennet, would you do me the honor of dancing this set with me?”

“I accept, good sir.”

Taking his hand, we went to the dance floor and joined the others.

“You dance well?” I said to him.

“Thank you. I… I spent a great deal of time practicing on my own.”

“That is a difficult way to learn, so well done.” As we moved along the set, I had a thought, and I knew that he would not be angry at me for asking. “When you feel unwanted, as if you cannot even ask a woman to dance, because you will not even get an answer, how does that make you feel?”

“Invisible.”

“Yes, I imagined so. It hurts when you feel that, I know.”

“You do?”

“White Wolf, I’m going to tell you a timeless truth.”

“What?”

“Everyone feels invisible, from time to time, and it always hurts. And anyone who tells you different is lying. I know how it feels. Loneliest state of being in the world.”

“Yes. It is. And it never stops hurting.”

“No, it does not.”

We continued to dance on, with him telling me about his tribe and the battles that he survived from his time fighting other tribal factions.

It was the last thing that a man should talk about when dancing with a lady.

So naturally, I loved it.

What sort of imp am I?

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