Crystal's eyes fluttered open and she looked around blinking. Her eyes began to adjust as she looked around at the place around her. She was in a room. A swan bed was where she was. Her disfigured cheek was agianst a soft material that made ehr want to close her eyes agian but she knew she had to get up.
Lifting herself from the bed she walked to a door and opened it looking out carefully before emerging. All at once a soul chilling music flooded her ears. It was beautiful and sad as she closed her eyes and began wlaking towards it, but unfortuanately her entrancement was broken as she tripped and fell into the lake letting a loud scream escape from deep within her throat.
The music stopped and as her head broke the surface and she began to cough and gaps for breath she saw the masked face of the man she had seen before running off. 'He brought be back here? But why?' She thought as he rolled his eyes and lifted her from the lake.
She smiled slightly and ran her hands through her hair that was now pushed back out of her face. "Thank you, but why did you help me?" She asked curiously looking at the man as she said this quietly.
Erik thought for a moment then shook her head a small smile showing over his features. "When? This time or when you fell down the stairs?" He said making her feel embarrassed for how clumsy she was.
He turned his back from her and walked into the other room and she started to follow him but he was out of the room before she could enter with a towel. She blinked as he handed her the towel and lead her to the room she had been in when she woke up. "Dry off while I go fetch some clothes for you to change into." He said and disapeated into the darkness.
Crystal blinked then looked at the darkness that he had seemed to just be part of as he walked into it disapearing from her sight. She turned and went into the room and dried off.
Erik walked down the hall to the prop room hiding the darkness as a few ballerina's passed him. Gosiping about something. "Who was that girl Madame Giry had been talking to the other night?" One asked little Meg Giry who shrugged and answered.
"I walked in and the girl was hiding her face underneither her hair and looking down to the ground. She looked like a whore who had just been dragged in. Probably was, my mother is so generous sometimes and then i wonder: Why can't she cut me some of that generousity. Oh well." Erik listened as they disapeared around the corner.
'So Madame Giry brought the girl to my home.' He thought as he walked into the prop room gathering up one of the dresses that lay on the clothes racks.
He then went back out of the room and down the hall. He wondered to himself about how the girl had been disfigured. How Madame Giry had come across such a pathetic creature. Many more also. He firgured he would interogate the girl after she was dried and in new warm clothes.
Slipping into the dark passage way he made his way back down into the lairto hear a womans voice humming a song that he couldn't quiet place. Even though he didn't know the song the voice he heard was beautiful. Well her humming was so he knew her voice must be. 'I may enjoy having this girl around.' Erik thought to himself as he knocked on the door to her room.
Crystal heard a rapping of knocks agianst the door. She held the towel close to her naked body and opend the door slightly to see Erik. He blushed as he noticed the towel and looked away even though she had only opened the door slightly. "Here are some clothes." He said handing her the dress he had taken. She took it graciously and shut the door after whispering a short thank you to him.
