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[second_first]

[The camera is sitting on top of the somehow undamaged piano in the ruined music room. Rei is sitting at the keyboard, her face expressionless as she slowly plays what sounds like Beethoven's ninth.

She almost gets to the end of the theme when her head snaps up, her expression hardening as she looks at something off screen.]

...Ikari-kun.

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[elegantvirtuoso]

[AUSTRIA APPRECIATES THAT THE PIANO IS UNHARMED. He's been mostly trying to avoid this event entirely and pretending it isn't happening, due to the general awkward of being associated with the WWII themes involved. But he can't help himself when he hears Beethoven. ...And then gunshots. And screaming.]

...Are you all right, miss? [It's worth a try, at least. If not, he will comment on her playing later, when she is well again.]

[second_first]

[Rei's response is rather delayed and when she makes it, it's voice only. She sounds like she's both very tired and in pain.]

I--

I am fine.