mun watched the Bolshoi performance of La Sylphide

[thelightest_feet]

Didn't you see her? My most beautiful Effie... You saw her, didn't you? Yes, you couldn't possibly look anywhere else! Then, how can you be so critical? How can you be so very cold?! You mustn't be so harsh on any one world in which she lives. I won't allow it. I won't allow anything but the prettiest of praise to fall on her shoulders. So, I urge you, mun - be softer.

Be soft like the newly budded catkins.

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[nomorefeathers]

Now, now, everyone has their faults. It's what makes them human.

[thelightest_feet]

Yet every Effie I have seen has been perfect!

[nomorefeathers]

I think you may be a touch biased in that regard.

[thelightest_feet]

Perhaps I oh so secretly don't wish for her to be human.

[nomorefeathers]

Not very secretly if you're willing to admit it.

But that's the tragedy of it all, isn't it? That she is.

[thelightest_feet]

It is a secret, it certainly must be - or else my heart shall freeze in my chest!

[nomorefeathers]

Literally or figuratively?

[thelightest_feet]

It is the kiss of death that turns a sylph's blood into ice and renders her heart frozen, when she breathes her last shaking breath.

[nomorefeathers]

So you're stuck loving and admiring from afar. That's just destined for tragedy.

[thelightest_feet]

Don't say that, please! Humans can learn how to dance!

[nomorefeathers]

Of course they can. Some quite well in fact. But if you can't tell her...

[thelightest_feet]

I'll hide where she'll find me. I'll let her see!

[nomorefeathers]

Quite the optimist, aren't you?

[thelightest_feet]

But surely you must know, how dangerous it is.

[nomorefeathers]

Optimism? Or revealing yourself?

[thelightest_feet]

Humans entering our world.

[nomorefeathers]

Your world. Not mine.

But yes, I know the danger.