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So I'm writing a scene between three characters. I feel like it's an important one, because it's the first scene that the main characters smiles after her family got kidnapped.
Backstory: Main character's (Alex) family got kidnapped by an alien organization. Alex paired up with two other aliens with a goal to destroy the organization for personal and political reasons.
"You both speak English, but you don't know what dancing is?" Alex asked, dumbfounded. Polar shrugged, his crystal blue eyes still fixed on the single tree out in the distance.
"I've heard the word, but it didn't seem like anything important, so I never bothered to look into it," he explained. Aria didn't say anything. Alex frowned. They had to know what dancing was… she just had to explain it.
"You know what music is, right?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, so dancing is when you're listening to a song, and you move your body to the music.," she explained, trying her best to keep it simple. A confused look crossed Aria's face.
"Wait, you mean humans find joy in moving themselves toward musical sounds?" She asked. Alex resisted the urge to facepalm, let out a frustrated growl, or do any action that would show her annoyance.
"No no no, not toward it. You move or sway your body in a way that seems to match the sound of the music."
"So you make noises by moving your body?" Polar asked, slightly curious. "How does that work?"
So Alexandria's attempts at explaining with words were futile. She'd just have to try another way. So she stood, faced Polar, and held out her hand.
"Polar, would you like to dance with me?" His eyes widened, and his gaze met hers for a moment before he looked away. She noticed a bit of redness in his cheeks.
"I thought dancing is an… intimate thing? And I don't even know how to do it. And I have claws, what if I accidentally scratch you? And…" He paused and looked up, expecting Alex to have withdrawn her hand. "I thought you didn't trust me."
Alex paused for a second. He was right. They had only been traveling together for two weeks, and they far away from her home. He could still imprison her, kill her, or torture her. Nobody but him and Aria would ever know what happened to her. They could make her disappear, just like that.
But Alex probably wouldn't survive for very long if she was going to battle an extremely powerful army with very little training, so it didn't matter anyway, did it? And besides, she really wanted to dance again.
"I trust you," She said.
Hesitantly, Polar placed his clawed hand in hers, and allowed himself to be pulled up by Alex. They stood together for a few seconds, before smiling slightly at each other, and finally beginning their dancing lessons.
