Pink flushes to Ran's cheeks -- but thankfully, Katarina hasn't seemed to mind the interruption or the awkward, pleased recognition.

"You were in the last ballet. Weren't you?"

She'd gone with her mother and had been enchanted by it. Though she can't recall having been to the ballet back at home, here she remembers it as something her mother introduced her to quite young, and both true self and false self are united in judgement: It's beautiful.

"You had the solo in the second act?"

It might have been just a short one, but Aqua herself is memorable, and it had been at a key point of the story.