[She nods.] Actually, my very first lessons were from the troupe's leader, Giban. He wasn't part of the show itself anymore, but I guess he used to be quite a performer back in his day.

[Naturally, though, at some point she made it own. Old men weren't the kind of dancers who would leap and twirl around on the stage.]

I was sort of surprised by it, actually. When they first found me, I had been hurt pretty badly, and my legs were... well... shattered. While they were healing, I tripped over my own feet quite a bit...

And yet he insisted on showing me how. Looking back, I'm sure he wanted to cheer me up about it.