"Attractive and endearing when in the right places or focuses and particularly frustrating when not...but perhaps no less endearing." Maybe it shouldn't be, but it was.


He walks them back easily enough, the moves no different than before until they got to the other end again and he set their circle once more. From there, he added another step: their hands back in their beginning positions, he lead them to the left instead, his feet crossing over each other until they were further from the furniture. "Now, I'm going to let go, keep your hand up and outstretched, you stay standing still while I move, then I'll take your hand again and bring you back around to me."

He stopped them there and let go of Alaric's waist while his other hand traced along his partner's fingers, wrist, down his arm, across his chest to his other shoulder. Anders himself took two steps, turning along behind him so they were back-to-back, then reached out and took Alaric's hand to tug him into a small twirl of his own and back to him as Anders turned so they were once again facing each other.