The imps don't care about cleaning up that sort of thing. [ Murder, she means. Then Shijima pauses, frowning. ] Unless you murder them. Then I suppose they care. People don't much care for it if you try, though. They give a bunch of well-meaning advice about how you shouldn't.

[ Because they are meddling meddlers who meddle...no one would let her murder an imp it was rude. She could have just done it anyway, but they were so reasonable about why she shouldn't. ]

I've never danced. [ She adds, after a beat. Because, well, she hasn't. It isn't as though Shijima has spent a great deal of time at parties until she came to Drabwurld and had to sit through so many in a row. ]