The Uncharted Within

[Jazzi]

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Mag-lock boots clicked against a marble floor, white and polished, as the dark red door closes behind her. Before Thallia a stairward leading down to a circular foyer. With a gloved hand on the banister she descends into the middle of the room where, on an elegantly plain black stand stood the upright form of a bass guitar. It's bodywork auburn and black. The strings glinting as their silver coil reflects the sunlight from outside.

Focus on your breathing.

She strokes the neck of the guitar, taking a firm if gentle grip as she lifts the body up to cradle against her chest. tilting her head forward as she loops it's strap over her head. Running her gloved hand down the frets, she feels the wire against the skin of her fingers. Closing her eyes, taking a deep breath, Thallia's head tilts a little to the side. The top of her mag-boot begins to tap a beat into the floor as she feels a rhythm fill her. With her fingers moving to press notes against the fingerboard, the sounds of other instruments fill the foyer as she begins to play the bassline to 'Have you Heard?'.

Aren't.. "objects" like zis in Earhart have something in zem? Looked similar, from afar

As her eyes open, she sees Thallia playing a keyboard along with her. She beams a bright smile at herself, as she begins to sings. "Have you heard the good news? You can do as you choose..." Thallia glances to her left, turning to see Thallia walking down from where she had just descended. "...just as long as it's what they tell you to do..." Thallia's voice carries from underneath an adjoining corridor, stepping out to greet herself with hands opened out. "When you're here you can leave anytime that you please. Only if we allow you..." She places a hand on Thallia's shoulder, giving a little squeeze as she leans in to quietly say "and after all why would you ever want to?"

Coming to stand in a circle, Thallia steps to the left and to the right, keeping the rhythm of the song as they share warm smiles. One of them simply claps along as they stride over to a closed door on the farside of the room. Another has a muted trumpet with it's end on her lips, blowing air from ballooned cheeks.

"Have you heard the good news? We speak only in truths..." Thallia walks up to the herselves with at the keyboard, leaning forward and bobbing her head as she lets the bassline take her. "...just as long as it's what we choose to believe. When you're here you can be anyone that you please..." The crisp notes of an electric guitar ring out from a balcony above, as Thallia puts on a quick dose of action on the whammy bar. "...only if it's one of us. After all who else would you want to be?"

Thallia looks around as she surrounds herself, forming a circle around the centre of the room. They discard their instruments, continuing to play their parts as they share excited, gleeful looks. They throw their arms out to their sides, looking up to the ceiling as Thallia looks down at them spin around her.

~~"Oooooooh, our time is coming baby. It's time to break, time to break free."~~
~~"Oooooooh, our time is coming baby. It's time to break, time to break free."~~
~~"Oooooooh, our time is coming baby. It's time to break, time to break free."~~
Focus... Center upon yourself.
~~"Oooooooh, our time is coming baby. It's time to break, time to break free."~~
~~"Oooooooh, our time is coming baby. It's time to break, time to break free."~~

Arranged in a square, Thallia dances in union with herself. Shuffling forward in staccato movements, bending her knees before throwing her shoulders back and forth. "Have you heard the good news? As a Friend of the Blues, you don't need anything else ever again..." With a devilish grin spreading out on her lips, Thallia hears the sound of an creaking door behind her as a frown curls the corners of her lips. "When you're here, you can see, everything that she sees, only if you surrender..." Turning around, Thallia's mouth falls open. Her eyes, wide and full of surprise, stares at the woman led through that opening door.

"...and after all why would you not want to?"

Anna.