winn | IC CONTACT @ driftfleet

Sure. It's been a while, so I might be a little rusty, but...

[She scans through the music one more time before she looks down at the keys and starts to play. Rusty or not, it's fairly clear that she's extremely talented. Years of practice have paid off.]

[ so much smiling as he listens. he takes a picture - if she doesn't like it he'll delete it after but she just looks so happy in the moment...if he ever loses her that's the face he wants to remember. when she stops he bursts into enthusiastic applause. ]

Bravo! [ proudest brother! ] Encore!

[In all likelihood, she doesn't even notice as he takes a picture; when she plays, she tends to lose sense of everything else, like the rest of the world falls away for a few minutes. As the last notes trail off, she gives a laugh to his applause, glancing down at the ground.]

It wasn't that good, you're going to give me a swelled head.

Sounded that good to me.

[ he'll show her at some point, to make sure he didn't cross a line. ]

[A small smirk, amused.]

I think you might be a little biased, you know.

Hey, I have a good singing voice, that clearly insta-qualifies me to be a music critic.

I have a good singing voice and over ten years of experience. I win this round.

I won the first inter-dimensional space Karaokebowl. Clearly, I win.

You can't out-banter me on this one, Schott, I was going to Yale.

Yeah but I was in the chorus of a musical in high school.

[ he's not stopping til you either a. accept the compliment or b. laugh. ]

[she can hold out for another few minutes. maybe.]

What musical? That's important.

It was a weird production from the mind of our director about a beached whale, but our heavenly aaaas totally tied it together.

Yeah, no, your beached whale shenanigans totally do not count.

Oh come on, I performed in an original show, totally counts.

The original show has to actually be good for it to count. A high school play about aquatic life? Not so much.

You don't know, you didn't see it, a lot of totally awesome pieces of fiction sound super dumb when described.

Name one that sounds as lame as a musical about beached whales.

Okay see I totally would - but [ tapping his augment ] can't remember muh shows.

...I have no idea what you're talking about.

Everything I watched, played, read, whatever - back home? All jumbled up here [ explaining in a get-this-over-with sort of air ] I can remember quotes, songs, if I got them on my phone, a few badass scenes and ideas - but ask me who any of the characters on the Matrix are and what they do and - I got nothing. So, back to our argument - I built a piano, that's gotta give me some points.

Wait, seriously? Ugh. That sucks.

[A small pause.]

I guess the piano gets you some points.

Yuuuuuuuuup.

[ that about sums it up. fiction means a lot to him, but he got a lot of real friends now, so that helps. and, he's got his own adventures now. ]

Ha! I'm so winning this.

Hey, I said you got a few points, don't get carried away or anything.

[it's not like it's one of the most thoughtful things anyone has ever done for her! (it totally is.)]

I'm carried the proper distance, your playing sounds amazing. Video it and take a vote and I'll win hands down.

[ it's what he does~ ]

Nah. That would definitely be going too far into 'desperate for attention' territory for me. Nice try, though.

[but.]

I guess I can let you win this round, since by my estimation I've probably won, like, the last twenty?

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