#( heeeere we are getting to the absolute STRETCHING of what song inspired means )

[rookfang]

@dreadedwxlf / CIRIL is listening to #13: THE MANUSCRIPT

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THE MUSIC ROOM is a solemn place, despite its name. Most of the time, it was grave silent, the stone door and a bit of fade magic deadening the sound of the others' chatting. Laika, then, trusted this would work in the opposite direction, that, so long as the door was closed, no one would hear her tepid chords at the two tier piano ( a book she'd found in the library called it a ' duplex piano, ' or a ' bösendorfer, ' a word Laika wouldn't even attempt a pronunciation of. )

That, of course, is not how it goes. She is absorbed in the method book in front of her; she had smuggled it in from Minrathous. Some part of her demanded she keep this... fascination with learning to play a secret. Mostly, of course, because right now, she sounded kind of bad. She misses keys, has issues stretching her fingers the width needed, stops and starts and stops and starts, over and over again—

For eight bars, Laika has kept a very, very slow tempo, one chord per measure; but she has kept the tempo! Then, she hears movement behind her, and she jumps upwards, ears burning. " H-how long have you been here? "