Summary: Ban's and Ginji's reactions while Madoka and Ban played the violins in the alley outside the concert hall. A pair of matched drabbles (100 words each).
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Author's Note: The title Tinny Waltz comes from the name of the violin duet Ban and Madoka played in episode 8.
Tinny Waltz 1
The fingers of Ban's left hand danced. His right arm stroked in precise movements. The magic he wove wrapped around him, entwined with Madoka's, and flowed outward bewitching all who heard their violins' music.
Ban closed his eyes and lost himself in childhood memories. He had spent long hours under his grandmother's gaze practicing scales and etudes, hours punctuated with staccatos of juvenile disdain for the instrument. Yet in private, there followed more hours practicing nothing but the ability to call the violin's wondrous magic, a magic untainted by curses.
Today, Ban reveled in that magic and it in him.
Tinny Waltz 2
Ginji watched as the fingers of Ban-chan's left hand danced and his right arm stroked in precise movements. The magic Ban-chan wove entwined with Madoka's and flowed into Ginji bewitching him.
He rose to his feet and danced in the alley. Beside him, Natsumi and Hevn twirled while Master banged a steel drum like a drum. Street persons laughed and cheered at the joy in their alley home. Even Shido and his beasts danced. Ginji glanced at Ban-chan's face and realized Ban-chan could create magic even with his eyes closed.
Today, Ginji reveled in Ban-chan's magic and it in him.