"Not interested enough to be a professional?" Rook asks. He knows something about the life of a professional athlete, especially one that competes in a field that is mostly about entertainment. It's not easy, you have to want it. A lot.

He hopes that is why Ulysse quit dancing, and not something else that forced his hand.

He doesn't realise that he's under the scrutiny of the little artist. There's plenty enough taking his attention elsewhere.