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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KitanaVorr" data-source="post: 701016" data-attributes="member: 9167">Caitlyn's Performance: Part 2Her heart couldn't stop beating its fluttering rhythm and only training kept her from losing her breath, her words, her music.  Intoxication...the only word that could describe the euphoria she felt there on the stage, throwing her heart into her words and voice into the air.  Did everyone else feel the same?  Could they possibly understand how addictive this could be?  Stronger than the most powerful drug, and more dangerous than life itself?Sometimes the world turns...on its sideThose dark eyes briefly moved from their vision of Nathaniel to wander about the room and gauge the reaction of the rest of her audience.  How beautiful Max and Vychtorya looked on the dance floor...perhaps her endearing friend would be lucky tonight and walk away with that lovely red-headed prize.  She seemed to like him a great deal.A roller coaster...and you're sick, from the rideValentine, that strange man who plucked her from the night club and brought her to this even stranger place.  Thrown her into a den of...of what?  Equally elusive and odd people who had so many secrets...what did they know that she didn't?And the laughter...has you shrinking insideThe metal stand felt like ice against her fingers, but she held onto the coldness, pulling it closer to her,letting it press against the warmth of her flesh just above her bodice.  Something about the chill that brought those tiny bumps of gooseflesh over her skin, something about it threw a deeper note into her voice.but somehow it works outsomehow it works outEvery part of her body wanted to move with the music.  To become an instrument beyond just the one that brought such melody from her throat or perhaps just become one with it until every undulation merely became an extension of the song...her song.You're just perfectHer lips curved into a smile when she met Valentine's gaze, parting only to whisper the words as if she meant it only for his ears alone.  The look in his eye, what was it?You're just perfect...For the end of this world...this World...this fickle...worldShe closed her eyes for a long moment, remembering every face but when she opened them again, she found herself gazing once more at the elusive Nathaniel there at his table and watching her.  What was it about that man that drew her?  Creepy...just a bit...his nephew Jemal was far handsomer as was Max...but he seemed to strike a cord within her.Where no one, and everyone, is beautifulOddly enough she wondered if she had the power to strike a cord within him with her music. Perhaps awaken him from whatever dark thoughts seemed to hide behind those old..so old looking eyes.  You're just perfect...just perfect...for this imperfect world.</blockquote>

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