[ Both hands come up, now โ one flesh and blood, the other dark metal laced with gold, glimmering in the dim light โ as Gustave walks forward, down the sloping aisle between empty seats. ]
Please, don't apologize. I've always found it a bit sad that when this place closes down, empties out. It always seems like it's just... waiting. You know? For the lights to come back on. People to come back in.
[ He gestures at the piano, there in the middle of the stage. ]
Someone to get up there and... play.
[ He doesn't recognize this man, who almost seems to have materialized out of the shadows backstage. It's strange, but not impossible: Lumiรจre is such a small island that most people know one another, but not everyone. And he would have remembered meeting this man before. The pale eyes that glance his way are so startlingly clear, he doubts he'd ever have been able to forget them. ]
Have you performed here before? I don't think I remember seeing you.
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[ Both hands come up, now โ one flesh and blood, the other dark metal laced with gold, glimmering in the dim light โ as Gustave walks forward, down the sloping aisle between empty seats. ]
Please, don't apologize. I've always found it a bit sad that when this place closes down, empties out. It always seems like it's just... waiting. You know? For the lights to come back on. People to come back in.
[ He gestures at the piano, there in the middle of the stage. ]
Someone to get up there and... play.
[ He doesn't recognize this man, who almost seems to have materialized out of the shadows backstage. It's strange, but not impossible: Lumiรจre is such a small island that most people know one another, but not everyone. And he would have remembered meeting this man before. The pale eyes that glance his way are so startlingly clear, he doubts he'd ever have been able to forget them. ]
Have you performed here before? I don't think I remember seeing you.