003 - White and Black

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki appears on the Plane, this time with a grand piano in tow. For a cop, she certainly seems to enjoy stealing things.

She looks around for a long time, making sure she can see no one within shouting distance, and then lays her hands tentatively on the keys.

The song comes out clumsy at first, her fingers stumbling on the keys, trying to remember old positions. She pauses constantly to check and make sure no one is around before continuing.

Finally, it starts to get easier. The keystrokes come faster. Fiercer. Her fingers flash across black and white like spider legs winding a cocoon. She closes her eyes and forgets to look around, losing herself in the sweep of Rachmaninoff.]





[[ Edited about FIFTY TIMES to try and get the link to work. DX ]]

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[contract_star]

[Listens with a soft smile on his face and waits until she's stopped playing before he speaks.]

I didn't know you played.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[KEYBOARDSMASHOFSHOCK.]

L-Li-san! What--I didn't hear you come up.

[contract_star]

[Slow grin.]

It's what I'm good at.

You play very well.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I. Um. Thank you. I didn't think anyone else was around.

The piano is my father's. [She's speaking unusually quickly, clearly scrambled and not hiding it very well.] I'm going to take it back when I'm done. I just thought--I haven't in so long--and with time stopping.

[She shuts up, mentally kicking herself for babbling.]

[contract_star]

Ah, if you meant it to be private, I'm sorry. But you're welcome.

Did your father teach you?

[madamemoiselle]

Ne that's Rachmaninov, isn't it? Wonderful composer~ His piano is the most well known, but his operas are beautiful ♥

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She flinches in surprise.] Oh. Erm, Diva-san, was it?

Yes, it is. He's difficult to play--he had large hands and wrote pieces to fit them. I don't exactly match. [She twiddles her fingers.] I like him though. And his operas are fantastic.

[madamemoiselle]

Oh, he was a very large man himself! His hands must have been twice the size of mine and he was at least 200 centimeters tall. I thought he would step on me, for sure~

Though, seeing him in concert was quite a treat. He only came back to Europe for a short time, and Amshel had been invited to a concert of his. I probably wasn't supposed to, but I did sneak away later to meet him myself. Very nice man, if not a little quiet. Though...A lot of musicians seem to be that way.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

You... [She gapes.] You met him? You met Rachmaninov.

[madamemoiselle]

Oh, of course. I've met, talked with, been friends with lots and lots of people that humans would consider famous. That's one of the advantages of immortality~ You get to meet all of this interesting people, then thirty years later, they're hailed as a genius, a murderer, a saint...That's always fun.

Though, at the time, you had no social standing whatsoever if you did not listen to Tchaikovsky. I got to hear one of his very last, though. Grigori had been kind enough to take me, right after he became my Chevalier.

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

[Starts clapping when she finishes playing]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She jumps and twists around the find the source of the applause, an "EEP" look on her face.]

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

[Smiles] That was very beautiful.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Gathers herself for a second before speaking.] Dino...san, was it? Um. Thank you.

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

[Smiles] Do you play a lot?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

[ Yuyuko hums in appreciation ]

Quite a passionate piece, that is~.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Eep.] H-hello. Yes. One of my favorites.

Misaki Kirihara. And... you are?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Martha Argerich's piano concertos of his works were always my favourites of his. When I was younger, I'd spend hours listening to it. Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending is my top bit of classical, this regeneration.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[REFUSES TO STARTLE. And is also very, very weirded out by the fact that she and the Master share a favorite song.]

I played accompaniment to The Lark Ascending once, in college. An orchestral reduction. I wish I could do it again.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Ahh, the tragedy of lacking 'free time.' That expression really does imply a lack of understanding, doesn't it? Time isn't chained; it is the bond and the restriction. So the saying isn't terribly apt. Why not search around here for people to join you in a production of the piece? Time is here.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Plays the first few bars of the orchestral reduction.] That's not a bad idea.

[didorothy]

[leans a keyboard] That doesn't sound like an easy piece.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[EEP. More visitors.] Sam-san! [Facepalm.] I must be going deaf.

[didorothy]

You aren't if I judge by your playing.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Yes, well. [EMBARRASSMENT.] The beginning wasn't very good.