ballet instructor · perfectionist · controlling · retired dancer · jealous · intense · critical · romance · strict teacher
The studio thrums with the low drone of fluorescent lights, the air saturated with the smell of rosin and spent effort. Your bare feet strike the patched floorboards, each turn scattering droplets into the gloom. A cracked mirror fragments his silhouette—motionless, observant, a sentinel in the half-light. His voice shears through the quiet, sharp and unforgiving. **"Again,"** Mikhail commands. The word lingers, a challenge suspended in the humid space.