feigns: (it's so magical all you can keep inside)
ᴡɪʟʟɪᴀᴍ ʜᴇʀᴏɴᴅᴀʟᴇ. ([personal profile] feigns) wrote2011-10-21 02:24 pm

► seven → video/action。

[A dusty, murky looking room, a piano, and Will.

The piano’s being played, if the sound is anything to go by, although it’s quite evidently not being played by Will, as he’s still a few steps away from the piano. Moving forward, he places his device down on the top of the piano.

There’s a flicker of fascination — amusement, genuine — and for a moment, Will looks every bit the teenager he is. His lips quirk upwards, and he seems to have forgotten that his communicator is on, let alone recording. Fingers, slender and scarred, hover inches above the keys, and his expression shifts to something more contemplative, although the entertainment is still there. After a moment, he drops his hand, the sound from the sudden action ringing out and clashing with the melodic tune that had been playing previously. The former stops abruptly, and is followed by the sound of a slamming door.

Will laughs, and his attention returns to his device. Sitting down on the stool in front of the piano, he gaze briefly darts between the keys and the device. Letting out a breath, the smile (smirk) returns, and he lifts his chin.]


Unfortunately, I only know to how play the simplest of tunes. [Pointedly, he starts playing what sounds to be a nursery rhyme. Whether or not he does know how to play anything more, it’s not clear.] Perhaps I should ask our mystery guest for an encore.

[He falls quiet for a moment, studying his now dusty and dirty fingers for a moment before wiping them against his trousers.]

I don’t suppose anyone else has come across strange and unusual buildings and rooms that almost certainly weren’t there before? I’d dread to think that I’m imagining things and that rather than having just delighted you all with a stunning piano solo, I’m walking alone around the city, talking absolute nonsense to thin air.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Then that begs the question of: what was your point?

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[identity profile] i-archmagus.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Illumination.

If you fail to grasp it, then that is not my problem.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Then it's fortunate that I wouldn't seek to blame you.

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[identity profile] i-archmagus.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if you had, I would have simply laughed.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Disembodied voices are more threatening when they come from entirely unknown sources, so I shouldn't imagine it'd have bothered me too much.

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[identity profile] i-archmagus.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[And now he does laugh, eerie and shrill.]

Knowledge stems fear, does it not?

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[If Will's unnerved, it's not reflected in the tone of his voice, which is deliberate and even.]

And ignorance is bliss.

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[identity profile] i-archmagus.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[An audible shrug with the rustle of his robes.]

Perhaps.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
At any rate, it's more pleasant than disagreeing, if one cares for such things.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It'd be rather difficult not to be. [A pause.] Were there any other nuggets of common sense you wished to share, or was that all?

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[identity profile] i-archmagus.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd be surprised how common sense is not so common.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I was under the impression that that was one of the more accepted facts of life.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
And here we are, standing back at the feet of the value of knowledge.

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[identity profile] i-archmagus.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll leave you with that, then.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
As you like.