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SHOWSTOPPER
ft. the Weird Sisters
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It was hard to get business in the middle of a war.
Hard for entertainers, at least. Gideon Crumb ("The Bagpipe Player") was pretty sure that everyone in the business of war or murder was having a hell of a time right now… but Gideon Crumb had never actually had any violent desires, despite, well, the bagpipe playing.
Herman Wintringham ("The Lute Player"), though… if there was anyone in their band who was known for violence, it was Herman. The lute playing never fooled anyone, what with the way he'd glower from the corner and constantly comment about how they'd have a better audience in a graveyard.
The guy was weird. That's pretty much all Gideon Crumb had to say about his bandmate. Talented, though — Gideon Crumb had never met anyone as good on a lute as Herman was. But he'd still avoid ending up in any dark alleys with the guy, given the general threat of murder he always radiated.
Knowing Herman, it was terribly unsurprising that he had been the one to suggest party-crashing. And then proceeded to tell absolutely no one the actual details about who they were party-crashing. But Herman had insisted it would be "good business in war" and that they'd be fine.
Herman obviously forgot that half the band was muggleborn. That half the band had part-time muggle jobs, that they were poor as dirt and very far from what Herman, with his minor pureblood heritage, considered "proper."
Now that he was thinking about it, Gideon Crumb was pretty sure Herman set them up on purpose.
Because there Gideon Crumb was, standing on an awfully clean white stage in front of dozens of wealthy purebloods, some wearing gilded skull masks, and he really regretted telling Herman they'd go perform that Halloween.
But he'd be damned if he was going to give anything less than a show stopping performance.
(and that was only kind of because he thought he'd get killed if he didn't.)