La Bohème [backdated to Friday, gathering-style]

[lil_blondeangel]

At ten to seven the lights in the main halls flashed, and people hurried to their seats as the lights in the auditorium went down. Behind the curtain, everyone was waiting silently in their places. then the curtain came up, the lights came up, the music started and the spectacle had begun

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[faramir_hurin]

I did not feel that this was so formal that I should wear the entire suit that Draco helped me buy but he worked so to get the colour of the shirt just perfect that I've chosen to wear that with nicer trousers and the modern dress shoes. I have no boots that would work.

It's strange, again, to be an escort to a lady in the performance, but I can watch it on my own and meet her easily enough after. It is... The gala did not prepare me for an entire performance like this. I can only wonder how it would all be if the house was full of people anticipating this sort of thing.

I wonder why it needed to be so sad at the end. I have a lot to think about, but now I need to go meet Meg.

"That was incredible. It seemed quite well done to me as well."

Pardon. I do not consciously know this opera (I may well have heard bits, but I couldn't say.) I'm too tired and my eyes burn (allergies) to go watching right now. Allergies suk.

[lil_blondeangel]

She was out of her costume by now, not having been in the final scenes.

"It was rather good, wasn't it? A very nice start to the run."

[[ooc: it's okay. I watched a bit of it, I read the synopsis, and I'm calling that good enough. You're entitled to be even vaguer than I've been, and I think I started out vague... :) ]]

[faramir_hurin]

"I enjoyed it, and me not knowing a thing at all about any sort of opera except what little you've told me." And that was mostly in describing the opera house itself. "It was pleasant being able to see you dance again. You are very graceful."

They all are--that sort of dancing looks like it would be difficult.

"You all should be pleased."

[lil_blondeangel]

"Thank you, Faramir." She looked pleased, certainly.

"Shall we wander to the hall?"

[faramir_hurin]

"We should. I'm sure people will wish to see and speak with you." I can escort her there and have come to enjoy our outings. Perhaps we might have supper together some time after this opera is finished and before she's too busy working on the next one. "I could certainly give you time on your own if that happens."

If anyone wishes to speak with her without an audience of me.

"The more I see of ballet, the more difficult it looks." I'm not at all certain about those shoes--how can their feet fit?

[lil_blondeangel]

"Oh, it's quite all right, I don't imagine anyone will have terribly much to say, beyond Kit or NPC musical director or Chris... and I'll see them tomorrow, in any case."

"It is rather difficult, but this one was easier than most - because it's an opera, the dancing is secondary, and it was about common people, so it's less stylized."

[faramir_hurin]

"This is less stylized? Well, I suppose I must wait until the next one to compare." I should keep quiet on that, as this one isn't finished yet.

"Kit? Which one is he?" Tabitha wished me to learn of him and I'm curious to meet the man, especially since he helped with this. "The director we had when we did the musical play here was probably not like him at all. He was... rather standoffish."

The corner of my mouth twitches, considering how I met him.

"Though he was very dramatic, and even wore a mask."

[lil_blondeangel]

"The next one won't be for a while." she said.

"Kit is... there." She pointed him out with her fan. "He's very nice, not standoffish at all."

"Wore a mask?" She asked, curious - not thinking that it might have been Erik. "What, like a carnivale thing?"

[faramir_hurin]

He's younger than I expected, but I don't know what I expected.

"I'll have to speak to him at some point." He did not look standoffish.

"I do not think so, though I'm not entirely sure what a carnivale thing is." I make a motion across half of my face. "It was plain and white, and it only covered this much. I never asked him about it as he was, as I said, standoffish. Very more than rather."

I would have understood being unable to learn much about him. Kit seems perfectly approachable.*

*I will have his thread with Kit start after he speaks with Meg.
D'oh! Jumping in.

[lil_blondeangel]

"Yes, we should, later."

"Carnivale masks are brightly colored, dripping with ribbons and beads and feathers." But if it wasn't one of those, why would he wear - but as she thought, something occurred to her. A mask for a burned or disfigured face. Like the Phantom. Who had been here once, long ago.

"His name... wasn't Erik, by any chance, was it?" she asked, with some trepidation.

[faramir_hurin]

I've seen some fancy masks, but this was obviously not one of those.

"It was. Did you know him?" He did work here in the opera house.

[lil_blondeangel]

"I... not as well as my mother did." Comes the answer, with a strange facial expression she can't quite hide.

[faramir_hurin]

"Did he work at the opera house?" I'm uncertain of the source of that expression. Was he... He might have been a 'friend' of her mother's. That seems unlikely at best--he was not at all a friendly person. He also seemed somewhat younger but it was difficult to tell.

[lil_blondeangel]

"In a way, yes. Wrote operas now and again." She's avoiding telling him that Erik is the Ghost, that Erik kidnapped Christine... Because she knows it was different for him, here. Somehow. Christine had married him here, they'd had a child...

[faramir_hurin]

"Ah. I can imagine he might be difficult to work with. He was with us, a bit." Not at all open, and I did not approve of his methods of leadership. But how different was the group of people he was working with from what he was used to? "It is expected, a bit, for an artist to have moods sometimes, is it not?"

They can, and it is tolerated to a point.

[lil_blondeangel]

"In my world," she began, softly, not wishing to continue to discuss it, but hoping a small kernel would explain sufficiently, "he was more than just difficult. He was... violent." He'd killed people, but she didn't say so.