As anyone who had known Darius for more than an hour could have told you, he seemed to take the lack of response as something he had personally done wrong. Calliope shook their head. Just no, whatever that meant. They didn’t dwell further on the topic, since there seemed to be no real need.

Darius’s smiled weakly and seemed surprise. Calliope laughed and said “Oh, but it has nothing to do with that, you know? It is how they want to handle what they feel. It’s that they like to decide. They like to know that they ca do whatever they are dreaming of with the dancers, even though they might not want it very much.” Calliope was clearly reflecting without the topic in a very spontaneous fashion, based on how they thoughts come out with a little distance, as if they hadn’t really thought about it very long.