bamfsecretary: "Nemo" by Nightwish (!guiding)
Ise Nanao ([personal profile] bamfsecretary) wrote2011-09-13 05:46 pm

thirtieth form; quiet talents reveal themselves (video/action for goldenrod/text)

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{When the feed clicks on, a few final-sounding notes of piano music rise up into the air, and we have a lovely view of... the carpet?!}

It is a beautiful piano, but...

-You cannot afford it, right?- {Nanao laughs mournfully, and the picture moves from staring at the carpet to one that shows Goldenrod's small but well-stocked music store. The salesman is leaning on a beautiful grand piano, on whose keys Nanao's gloved fingers still rest.}

You have that right. Apart from the price, I'm pretty sure that it would take up most of the space in the room I intend to put it in. {Reverently, she runs her fingers over the top of it, and sighs.} I don't suppose you have an upright, do you?

-You're in luck. We've just received one from Kanto, actually. Would you like to try it out?- {She nods, and he gestures over, the camera following the movement to reveal... a humble-looking polished wood upright piano. Nanao's voice sounds from out of frame.}

May I? {The salesman must have nodded, because she makes a delighted noise, and wheels over, carefully negotiating her way through the close-stacked piles of sheet music and recorders. She lifts the lid, and looks over her shoulder one last time, before she sets her fingers to the keys and begins to play. Tentative at first, she exhales and starts to lose herself in the music. There's no known notes to guide her, no carefully annotated sheet music, just herself and the piano and her memories.}

{The sheer sound cascades from her fingers out into the store, filling it with melody and joy and melancholy all at once, and it seems to be over all too soon, and she's left leaning over the keys, the last remnants of the sound fading slowly into the air, and she smiles.}


I'll take it.

//text, private to Hitsugaya Toushirou

I know Hyourinmaru vanished when Hinamori-san vanished, but Shiryuu needs a better trainer than I - and she's much calmer than Golduck-san.


{ooc: Feel free to bump into Nanao if you're in and around Goldenrod! You might even see her trundling through the streets of Goldenrod with a piano hovering behind her. There's an Alakazam sitting on top of the piano, which may or may not explain things.}

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
{None taken.} I could teach you, if you'd like.
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-09-15 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... I should probably try to master one instrument before I try working on another...
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-09-18 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Guitar... or well, I was learning before I got here...

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I think they sell those here too...
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-09-19 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Nodding.] Yeah, but they're way out of my budget. It took me forever to save for the one I had back home.

Hopefully I don't forget everything by the time I can pick up again, right?

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-09-20 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. {Guess what you're getting for Christmas, Yosuke!}

Hopefully!
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-09-24 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hehe, I was doing alright, I think. I mean, I still remember now, but my fingers would probably need a really good warmup.

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose it's like any other kind of exercise - you do need to warm up the relevant muscles before starting.
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-09-26 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty much, yeah. It's been so long since I played, too... crap. Almost six months now.

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Well. That is a long time.

Then again, I've been here for nearly nine months, so I can't complain overmuch.
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-09-27 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I, uh... funny how quick times goes, isn't it?

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-10-04 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Just a little. But time does not pass back home, so I suppose that's alright.
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-10-04 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's not too bad or anything. It's just easy to forget how long we've actually been here.

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-10-05 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
I know what you mean - it feels like I've been here forever some days.
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-10-05 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Right? Sometimes... it's kind of like we've just always been here.

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Especially with the constant comings and goings.

Goodness knows I could do without those.
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-10-21 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that makes two of us. I... don't mind people coming, usually. Just going.

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-10-23 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
Those always hurt the most - but there seems to be nothing that we can do to stop them.
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-10-24 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I know... I guess I'm as used to that as you can get, though.

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I woke up once after one of those strange comas and found out that while I was sleeping, the last two people who were from my universe had vanished.

I hope for your sake that that kind of thing never happens to you.
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-11-05 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I... a few people have left before -- people I knew from home. [A pause.] Guess we're not made to get too used to anyone being here.

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Those losses are the hardest. {She shrugs, a half-smile briefly appearing.} But some good did come out of it - I have made many new friends since then, including yourself and Souji-san.
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[personal profile] skillspanner 2011-11-13 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I've met a lot of really good people here too. [A small smiling.]