IC: 25 May

[bearly_legal]

[Outside the library, a music box is playing Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, specifically, Op.20 Suite - 1 Swan Theme. The birthday girl toying with the box keeps replaying it occasionally.]

Comments

[anablemaster]

. . . Soma.

[bearly_legal]

It's been a while, Chrome.

[anablemaster]

It's a nice song.

[bearly_legal]

You know the ballet?

[gottabeatemall]

[base-mate has a shiny, coming to sit down next to]

What's that song?

[bearly_legal]

That's the Swan Theme, from a ballet.

[plays it again, just for Kizna]

[gottabeatemall]

[holding off her questions for a moment and listening, then once it's done] It's very pretty.

Swan. . . That's a bird, right? What's a ballet?

[bearly_legal]

A performance where dancers tell stories with their bodies, not words. It's a signficant part of our theater culture at home.

The swan in this story is actually a girl.

[shinnanigans]

What's that?

[bearly_legal]

A music box. Someone left it on my bunk back at the base.

[shinnanigans]

It's nice, I guess.

[bearly_legal]

[plays the melody again]

I'd like to thank them, whomever they are.