but it all looks effortless and beautiful.

[realists]

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if a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there i said it!

[evasives]

Cassian flew across the continent for university, and even though sometimes he misses Mexico a lot, he's just as overall happy where he ended up now in New York. Sure, he shares a shitty two bedroom apartment with Kay in the Bronx, and his friend pays most of the rent right now while Cassian continues the 'job in his field' struggle, but he likes the city and he likes the network of people he's come to know. Shara and Kay are both in different fields, but he's known them both for years, and they're all still here. Shara's even married! A lovely little ceremony in the spring, their families flew in for the weekend and Kes started his job at the museum on Monday.

Among his friends, apparently he picked the wrong trajectory, going for civil engineering over computer or aeronautical.

Tonight, however, Kes and Shara have managed to drag him out to a bar a few blocks from their apartment called the Falcon they've been insisting he check out. And with Kay out of town for a conference, they argued he didn't have a choice. So here he is, with Shara, Kes, and their friends Din and Fennec. Din rarely gets out since he adopted his son, and Fennec is freshly healed from abdominal surgery after a work wound. They're nice enough, but Cassian doesn't know them very well.

It's busy. Busier than he might normally choose on his own, but it's not terrible. The bartenders are a very tall man everyone keeps calling Chewy and his less tall companion whose name still escapes him, but he keeps arguing with all the patrons. He sees him having a very heated argument with a smaller woman clutching a half empty class, though she looks ready to throw it at him.

The next time he sees this woman, she's slamming a kick directly into the balls of a skeevy looking man who spills his drink all over. Her own companions are the ones presumably cheering, but even Kes lets out a "WHOOP!!"

The belligerent bartender comes out to smooth it over, though he just ends up getting punched in the eye himself, and the woman full on body slams the man to the ground. Her friends cheer all over again.

"I love this girl!" Kes yells, already pretty drunk and loud enough for the compliment to carry.

Clutching between his legs, the drunk man stumbles and crashes right into Cassian. It's instinct to shove him away, though he slurs something unintelligible but rude in the process. Kes takes care of it. "Hey! Girl! Come get your asshole!"