Rodion Vershinin

Standing in the same posture isn't hard. What's hard is saying the same thing.

• Anatoly ZverinNice spot, that. Does staring at a wall through all twelve dances get you a promotion?
  Rodion VershininIt's not a wall. It's a door.
  Anatoly ZverinThat door's got more expression than you do.
• Marfa YuryevnaIf your words have changed, you haven't slept. I left soup waiting in the guardroom, come down before it goes cold.
  Rodion VershininThank you. I'll come down once the dance ends.

I found a single left-hand glove. No one lost one tonight.

• LiliyaI saw that glove too! But anything not on the laundry register isn't allowed in the palace.
  Marfa YuryevnaIf it's not on the register, it doesn't exist. So why does the feel of it seem familiar to my own hand, I wonder.
• Varvara SokolskayaA glove missing its right hand is common enough. Seems to happen to men too busy using their right one.
  Rodion VershininTrue. That's why only the left one is left.