The not-so-secret concert

[flashiestflint]

Alfie showed up early to the Room of Requirement to get everything set up. He told the room the band needed somewhere to play and he got what they needed. The space was big and had a very industrial feel to it.

He set up a table for drinks and snacks and a table for Lunar Howl merchandise.

There were a few tables and chairs but most people would

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[lottawolf]

Lottie had known going in that the concert would need a bit of strategy in choosing her set list. Fully matching the vibe of Lunar Howl wasn't going to happen, she didn’t consider it much and set out to do her own thing. The Easter holiday had been absolutely vital and very productive for her, five backing tracks since she didn’t have a band and she'd decided full dictatorial control over her own sound was actually really, really cool anyway.
In the end she'd leaned into the idea of giving the people something they'd enjoy, leaving the anger and the questions and promethian allusions at home to deliver radio-play worthy singles. She'd get her complicated shit on the albums someday, today she wanted to be fun and for people to tell her they liked it.
She opened with a cover, Them Changes' bassline sexy and steady, setting the tone with pulsing lights. Her set was decidedly not epileptic-friendly, I Already Like You was the first of her run of originals and looked like Lottie: flashing pink and turqoise tied to the heartbeat of her

[lottawolf]

"I got no room for it, so look forward to hearing it in the next Molly Weasley album," she laughed, "It'll be a pain getting back when I have somewhere to put it."

[puremoney]

“See, musical instrument and future heist opportunity, what more do you need?”

[lottawolf]

She thinks about it, "I think I'm covered, that sounds great."

[puremoney]

“You thinking ceiling dangling ninja suit heist, or rag tag team of individual experts heist?”

[lottawolf]

"Oh, team heist all the way. It'd be way more criminal to have all this talent and not use it, right? I mean," she points at Blue in the crowd and by extension Sofie, "Getaway driver and definitely the girl in the chair," Arlo, "Muscle," Alfie, "Distraction master," and at Aubrey himself, "Face. It's not even a question."

[puremoney]

“I do have a face, it’s true.”

[lottawolf]

"Like, notably, yeah."

[puremoney]

“But in the third act it will turn out I planted a remote activated portkey in the dulcitone and could have retrieved it the whole time,” Aubrey mused, “and have in fact orchestrated the needless heist for my own nefarious purposes. I’m not sure what they are yet,” he added, “but they are definitely nefarious.”

[lottawolf]

She gasps, shock and outrage straight from a soap opera, "Betrayal! In my heist squad? That's awful, you're the worst."

[puremoney]

“I will definitely seem like the worst. But then it will turn out I am secretly saving a tiny orphan bunny from cancer or something,” Aubrey decides, grinning. "This is a very silly conversation."

[lottawolf]

"I have silly conversations every day, this rocks," she grins back, "I guess we'll forgive you. I like bunnies."

[puremoney]

“I was going to say I wouldn’t watch this movie but, y’know, maybe if I was high and it was on I’d sit through it and its inexplicable second act bollywood number and artistic jazz interludes.”

[lottawolf]

"It's full of pretty people and really good outfits," she agrees, "Total cult classic."

[puremoney]

Aubrey nods. “Supreme sleeper hit, great residuals. But to our disgust, it turns out everyone is obsessed about the romantic entanglement of two random background characters because we got cheap and kept reusing the same extras for every crowd scene.”

[lottawolf]

With a sigh, she shakes her head, "The public can be like, really right and also really wrong."