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Dancing on Air
by Nancy Kress
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Copyright (c)1993 Nancy Kress
First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1993

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>>>"When a man has been guilty of a mistake, either in ordering his own
affairs, or in directing those of State, or in commanding an army, do we not
always say, So-and-so has made a false step in this affair? And can making a
false step derive from anything but lack of skill in dancing?"<<<
-- Moliere

Sometimes I understand the words. Sometimes I do not understand the
words.
Eric brings me to the exercise yard. A man and a woman stand there. The
man is tall. The woman is short. She has long black fur on her head. She
smells angry.
Eric says, "This is Angel. Angel, this is John Cole and Caroline
Olson."
"Hello," I say.
"I'm supposed to understand that growl?" the woman says. "Might as well
be Russian!"
"Caroline," the man says, "you promised..."
"I know what I promised." She walks away. She smells very angry. I
don't understand. My word was _hello_. _Hello_ is one of the easy words.
The man says, "Hello, Angel." He smiles. I sniff his shoes and bark. He
smells friendly. I smell two cats and a hot dog and street tar and a car. I
feel happy. I like cars.
The woman comes back. "If we have to do this, then let's just do it,
for Chrissake. Let's sign the papers and get out of this hole."
John Cole says, "The lawyers are all waiting in Eric's office."
Eric's office smells of many people. I go to my place beside the door.
I lie down. Maybe later somebody takes me in the car.
A woman looks at many papers and talks. "A contract between Biomod