These are a few 100-word dabbles written from Erik's point of view, based off prompts from a dabble challenge prompt table. I've arranged them in chronological order per Leroux's timeline. I wrote these over 7 years ago, and just rediscovered them on an old hard drive, so figured I might as well share. Enjoy!
Prompt: Tease
In the Corridor of the Ballet
One of the girls tripped and fell to the floor in a risqué disarray as the flock scattered in the opposite direction. I did not speak to them—I never did. If they heard my voice, they would have had less to understand, but they would not have had as much to fear. And how is that at all amusing?
She shrieked out in pain and terror, but when she looked again, I was gone. She cries now like a haunted child, but tomorrow she will drink rum with her friends like a woman, and blame me for the theft of her slipper.