"Ballet training, huh?" Dan starts to put away his sewing supplies and gestures with his nose towards the direction they'll be heading. "I wouldn't might know if mine counts as training, but my mom taught me the basics when I was a kid and I done kept up with it. Dance was cheap entertainment, and she done minored in theater in college."

Dan doesn't talk about his family much, and he isn't sure if Elle will be surprised to hear him bring them up now or that his mother had a college education. His father didn't. That was part of the union his parents had: his father adopted his mother's sincere Christianity, and his mother adopted his father's anti-authoritarian isolationism.

"I reckon I just assumed your gracefulness came from you being a cat." He grins. "If you might would be willing to show me some moves I'd love to see them."