014 // (accidental) audio

[ingenue_bait]

[The recording device is on, but from the sound, on the other side of the room. Through it comes the sound of a violin, entirely in tune but played violently, with harsh dissonances perhaps not unfamiliar to those versed in early 20th century music, but certainly not habitual in the 19th. Erik is playing out his irritation, anger, humiliation, more

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[ichoosefight]

Is that an original?

[ingenue_bait]

[The answer comes somewhat later.]

Of course it is.

[ichoosefight]

That was... intense. But beautiful.

[ingenue_bait]

If we cannot turn our pain into beauty, we have nothing.

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[rass_bestie]

I intend on sending you what I promised.

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[ingenue_bait]

[The answer comes somewhat later.]

Do as you like.

[fanged_aleera]

Why so sad, music man?

[ingenue_bait]

[The answer comes somewhat later.]

You ask why?

[fanged_aleera]

Why should I not?

[ingenue_bait]

I cannot be otherwise, so the question is moot.

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[thegooddrjones]

Erik, do you need me?

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[ingenue_bait]

[The answer comes somewhat later.]

I need no one. I need to be off this "boat." This idea of rehabilitation is... is worse than laughable. I'd rather submit to any of the tortures of my own devising.

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[thegooddrjones]

No, Erik, it isn't. I know you're unhappy about this, but it doesn't mean that you need to give up on it.

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[ingenue_bait]

[Consider him eye-rolling.]

Please lock me in my room for the duration of all such future events, and take this horrid magical box away.

[so_meretricious]

[No stranger to the key of I Hate Everything major, Holmes is disconcerted only by the somewhat more modern style.]

What an entirely peculiar composition.

[ingenue_bait]

[The answer comes somewhat later.]

Excellent. A critic.

[so_meretricious]

[And somewhat later than that.]

Well-played, if dissonant. You have excellent technique.

[ingenue_bait]

Of course I do. The dissonance is intentional, it's merely your plebeian taste which objects.