When the current dance ends, you look around and your eyes land on a lady who seems to still remain unengaged amidst couples who are rapidly forming and moving to stand in position for the next dance. The lady has skin as white as chalk and hair as dark as coal. Her gown flows around her and the color is a strange shifting orange and darkish red that seem to change every instance. The lady is very beautiful, though not as beautiful as the pretty girl he was betrothed to so he wonders why she has not yet found a partner. The previous dance did not seem different from the dance of any ballroom of England so you believe that the next dance will not prove too difficult for you. You have been complimented on your excellent dancing before so you believe yourself perfectly capable of conducting yourself with grace amidst this profusion of beautiful ladies and gentlemen. Approaching the woman, you ask her: "May I have a dance, lady?" She looks at you with one eyebrow partially raised and consents to it. When you start dancing with her, however, you realize that her dress is no simple dress. It is, in fact, a mass of little insects that crowd all over her skin; they crawl, wiggle, and bite each other, creating the most awful screechy noise that you are not able to hear from far away. The sight of it repulse you; even worse, one of the bugs scratches you with its terrible claw as you come nearer.
What is your reaction? A. You gasp and draws back from the insects. B. You stifle your disgust the insects and compliment her on her dress.
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A. Approach a lady and ask her for a dance.
Date: 2025-04-03 04:14 pm (UTC)You have been complimented on your excellent dancing before so you believe yourself perfectly capable of conducting yourself with grace amidst this profusion of beautiful ladies and gentlemen.
Approaching the woman, you ask her:
"May I have a dance, lady?"
She looks at you with one eyebrow partially raised and consents to it. When you start dancing with her, however, you realize that her dress is no simple dress. It is, in fact, a mass of little insects that crowd all over her skin; they crawl, wiggle, and bite each other, creating the most awful screechy noise that you are not able to hear from far away. The sight of it repulse you; even worse, one of the bugs scratches you with its terrible claw as you come nearer.
What is your reaction?
A. You gasp and draws back from the insects.
B. You stifle your disgust the insects and compliment her on her dress.