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[matermali]

I have occasionally enjoyed some of their songs when a friend of mine has been kind enough to bring me along in his car.

[ She really had been picturing something very different when Crowley had first used the word 'car'.

Should she ask him about The Beatles? ]

I think it may best serve us both if I defer to your preference in music for dancing.

[strongroots]

Okay, I'll have a look at the music and let you know what I find.

And practice on my dance moves, too. [ ...actually. ] Maybe I can get Mr LaRusso to show you some at the diner, too.

[ :) ]

[matermali]

It sounds as thought I will be benefiting from quite a show.

Would you say that karate is very different from dancing?

[strongroots]

A lot more physical contact with the other people, but [ ... ] I did mix the two with my dance partner against another couple one time.

We all ended up in a pool. It was a fun night.

[ And dumb, but you know. ]

[matermali]

The pool? During or after the dance?

[strongroots]

After. It was an after party to the prom and stupid stuff like that always broke out back then. No one got hurt.

It was just...dumb. Everything going on back home was.

[matermali]

It sounds lovely to me. I can only imagine how it must have appeared to attempt both at once, but then I am lacking for any experience around such an art.

Perhaps you and Mr. LaRusso could allow me to witness some of your karate.

[strongroots]

Sure, I'll ask him. We train out in the park (near the diner) often.

But uh, you don't want to bring up the fight at the prom. That's between you and me.

[ Especially because his daughter was involved................. ]

He wouldn't approve of my karate dance moves.

[matermali]

Of course.

I shall keep such a secret safe until my final breath. I doubt that he would have any better favor for my own past adventures.

[ Or her current. Definitely not her future. ]

[strongroots]

I think anything you had to share would leave him speechless. We're both bad when it comes to anything magical or supernatural.

[matermali]

It would be convenient to blame all of my past oddities and troubles on the supernatural, but I did not grow accustomed to accepting such things until I was somewhat older.

People need little assistance in finding their own trouble, and less-so in youth. My dear friends might never have received a stern look in their life had I not been there to cast my shadow.

Dancing while fighting would have been a new experience, though.

[strongroots]

We didn't get to dance and fight as much as I made it sound. But... I was at the dance to cause trouble in the first place. I don't know. I liked the night, but I look back on everything I was doing then and hate it, too.

Do you regret any of it?

[matermali]

[ She thinks perhaps regret and guilt are more her lifeblood than hope. ]

Some of it.

[ So much of it. He doesn't need to know the magnitude of the disasters left in her wake, or what is prophesied to come... She would like not to.

This dreadful city certainly wasn't in any prophecy. ]

I was not very close with others for most of my early years. I had only two friends, really, but they were family. There were times when we shared in the mischief and it could be great fun, though nothing quite as bold as what you have described.

[strongroots]

Maybe because you never got the chance too. I bet you could upstage a few people if you wanted to.

[ She just has the vibe. ]

But the dancing and spending that night with someone... yeah, that was the highlight too. I've had friends come and go. Learning karate was the only time I got to feel part of something. Even if there was a lot of drama going on.

That happens when the owners have history.

[matermali]

[ Oh, dear Robby. 'Upstage' is putting it lightly. Their shared mischief may not have been so bold, as she so carefully worded, but Vanessa created enough trouble of her own to lead to catastrophe. She had her chance and she blew it quite literally straight to Hell.

She's only fortunate that none of that has followed her here. ]

It must have been a strange comfort to find a place of belonging.

What sort of history might create 'drama' as you say?