come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones

[scalpedsociety]

Who: Aramat and YOU! (Certain prompts are locked for certain people though.)
What: A month in the life of the pianist.
When: Throughout March
Where: Various Places Around Vista City and Pride HQ
Warnings: Possible sex, mentions of triggering things and whatever else. Will warn in advance. Prompts are in the comments.

Throughout March, Aramat is rather busy with various things, recording for Crown of Thorns, performing in clubs, searching for apartments to spend some quiet time in, and perhaps other errands. Of course there's always time for fun as well...

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[bass_instincts]

Shin smiles with excitement, "I would be glad to. But I dont have a board here."

[scalpedsociety]

It's memory time and Aramat sometimes gets caught up in it. She snaps out of it.

"...I'm so sorry."

[lightthedarkness]

"No, it's okay, did ah... are you alright?" she asked instead, rubbing her back. She had an idea what might have happened, but couldn't assume or let on.

[scalpedsociety]

"Yeah." She looks at him, her eyes without light. They were much more hardcore about it than most. So hardcore, Aramat would kill some herself for... anything.

"They were my family, I guess. Did you have one?"

[scalpedsociety]

"Maybe we can fetch one and play somewhere else." Aramat suggests.

[scalpedsociety]

"I occasionally get...spacey sometimes and I say strange things on occasion. I'm sorry." Aramat apologizes again.

[lightthedarkness]

"Do... you want to talk about it? We don't have to if you don't want to, though."

[bass_instincts]

"In vain hopes I got one. It's at my apartment, so not far," he offers, though he leaves the offer to go to his place up to interpretation.

[liarmonstersnappydresser]

The question then becomes, who is the bigger manipulator in this group? The woman who enticed the man on stage, the man who is coercing the woman into being a part of his act, the audience who believe the empty words of the idols they know nothing about, or the musicians who can't resist the attention of so many eyes upon them.

"I know tomorrow brings the consequence at hand, but I keep living each day, like tomorrow's never gonna come!"

No one in this room is innocent, and it bleeds through in the words, sincerity wholeheartedly lost in the flavor of the song. The music builds up in anticipation for the next stanza.

[scalpedsociety]

Pride artists aren't allowing to go into Virgo spaces. It's a stupid rule and Aramat's own outside loft isn't really yet.

"I can't do into your apartment, most likely. You're Virgo, I'm Pride."

Again, it's a stupid rule.

[twoscompany]

"Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
we will stand tall
face it all together..."

She can see someone in the crowd with a camera, its red light blinking. It doesn't matter. Let them record.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Yeah. Yeah, he got the message from that look of hers. Maybe joking was a bad idea.

"Kid," he rumbled. "Little twig of a thing. Don't know how a guy like me had a little crybaby like that. I was tryin' to toughen him up a bit, but... "

He'd been a sad case himself, sad enough that talking about it to her would embarrass him. He didn't want to be anything less than strong in her eyes.

"Damn good thing I never took up booze."

[worthlesspride]

"Here you go," he said, handing his phone to her. "It's a bit of walk, hope you don't mind the exercise. I know I need it."

[bass_instincts]

He thinks it's really stupid. "Well, I can get it. Would it be strange to get a motel to play Mahjong?" No, really, would it? It would be hard to give instructions at some kind of nightlife.

[scalpedsociety]

Aramat is silent for a moment... then speaks.

"...She she was one of my ladies. She had blonde hair like yours, a bit paler though. They're were ten or eleven of them, I guided them."

[lightthedarkness]

"One of your ladies?" she asked softly, not wanting the driver to hear. "Ah, what did you guide them with?"

[scalpedsociety]

"Twig or not, he's still your son. What's his name?" She'll ask slowly.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Aramat...

You're the only one, the ONLY one, who can get away with that question. And Jecht's long silence, his distant expression, show just how little he wanted to answer it. Voicing it made it more real. Acknowledging the dreams made them memories.

"Tidus."

[scalpedsociety]

"Fascinating. We should take look at some of these." A pause. "Assuming you're willing to come along..."

[scalpedsociety]

"They lived with me. I provided them with shelter. And we... we. Tore people apart."

Aramat shakes struggling not to cry.

"We were monsters... human monsters under my care. Ghouls."

[scalpedsociety]

Oh help me but
Don't tell me to deny it
I've got to cleanse myself
Of all these lies till
I'm good enough for him

But not really, lies are needed everyday. A lot of things are made of lies. And by the smirk on her face, she enjoys it.

[scalpedsociety]

"Tidus..."

It's tempting to not ask anything more about this, but she wants to know more about Jecht than the person he is in Vista City. Wants to know these dreams made memories. She'll tell her own.

"Does he have a mother? Does he look anything like you?" She asks this gently.

[scalpedsociety]

"A hotel? How scandalous. People might talk..." And they do.

[worthlesspride]

"I could use the walk," Tooru said. "Get the kinks out of my knee."

[bass_instincts]

"Would that stop you?" It had stopped him in his world, but only because there was already a great deal of complex history between him and the girl from the other band.

"I think we've figured out how to be discreet anyway."