A Night at the Museum
As the sun sets over Gotham, the city puts on its eveningwear. As the shawl of the sunset settles over the skyline, windows light up and down the buildings, twinkling like spangles on slinky black dresses, and streaks of red and white swirling about the hems with the last of the day's rush hour. Through that slow dance moves the private cars and limousines of the city's wealthy and influential, come down from their penthouses and in from their country homes to converge on illuminated pillars of the Gotham Museum of Fine Art.
The Museum has hosted many celebrity events in its time, and has hosted large celebrity charity functions, including gala dinners, balls and even the occasional auctioning of some of the rarest, most beautiful and most expensive objects and curiosities the art and antiques market has ever seen. Those that it could not secure for it's private collection, of course. It has not often had the honor of hosting a large celebrity charity dinner and auction in conjunction with the Wayne estate, and the events coordinator has done her utmost to ensure that (if he were here), Bruce Wayne would be pleased to see the air of wealth and grandeur that has been created. That those who had the privilege of an invitation to dine with him (if he were here) would experience a gourmet meal that would bring a tear to the eyes of royalty - she should set someone to watch the royalty in attendance to make sure. And, hopefully, would seek to impress him (if he were here) and the rest of this snooty, spoiled, opulent, completely loaded crowd by bidding just as high as their massive checkbooks can handle. Never high enough for her or for the museum, however, as no price could repay robbing the museum and the public of these stunning pieces. Ahem.
The guests are trickling in, the orchestra has begun playing soft chamber music, the tables in their gentle semicircle are set with china and crystal, the wine is colling in a hundred silver ice buckets, the hors d' oeuvres are arranged on trays set on the shoulders of aproned waiters with polished shoes...and if ONLY Mr. Wayne were HERE, they could get final approval on the list of items and their reserve prices, and the evening could be guaranteed to go off without a hitch.
But then, the events coordinator reminded herself, when has anything to do with Bruce Wayne ever gone off without a hitch.
The Museum has hosted many celebrity events in its time, and has hosted large celebrity charity functions, including gala dinners, balls and even the occasional auctioning of some of the rarest, most beautiful and most expensive objects and curiosities the art and antiques market has ever seen. Those that it could not secure for it's private collection, of course. It has not often had the honor of hosting a large celebrity charity dinner and auction in conjunction with the Wayne estate, and the events coordinator has done her utmost to ensure that (if he were here), Bruce Wayne would be pleased to see the air of wealth and grandeur that has been created. That those who had the privilege of an invitation to dine with him (if he were here) would experience a gourmet meal that would bring a tear to the eyes of royalty - she should set someone to watch the royalty in attendance to make sure. And, hopefully, would seek to impress him (if he were here) and the rest of this snooty, spoiled, opulent, completely loaded crowd by bidding just as high as their massive checkbooks can handle. Never high enough for her or for the museum, however, as no price could repay robbing the museum and the public of these stunning pieces. Ahem.
The guests are trickling in, the orchestra has begun playing soft chamber music, the tables in their gentle semicircle are set with china and crystal, the wine is colling in a hundred silver ice buckets, the hors d' oeuvres are arranged on trays set on the shoulders of aproned waiters with polished shoes...and if ONLY Mr. Wayne were HERE, they could get final approval on the list of items and their reserve prices, and the evening could be guaranteed to go off without a hitch.
But then, the events coordinator reminded herself, when has anything to do with Bruce Wayne ever gone off without a hitch.