met Raoul in the dining
room. He pulled out a chair and pushed me into it, and than seated
himself.
"Jaclyn left this morning to fetch some things for
you from the opera house, Why?" he asked demandingly. "Are
you contacting that thing?" Then I courageously told him,
"No!
why would I? There were some things that were left in my dressing
room that I wanted, Thats all," after that, we started breakfast
in silence. I kept wondering, 'where is Jaclyn now? I hope she is ok'
Jaclyn's POV
I walked through the muddy streets,
approaching the opera house. It did not burn to the ground, It just
got burned quite badly. They still put on operas there. I went inside
and located Madame Giry, teaching young ballerinas a simple dance
sequence.
"Thats good girls! now piroette, good!" she
dictated to them. I walked up slowly and tapped her on the shoulder.
She turned around and looked at me and asked sternly,
"Who
are you and what is your business here?"
I replied, "I
am Jaclyn, and I have a letter for someone from Ms. Christine Daae,"
"Let me see it then," she said.
I gave her the
envelope and she sighed,
"You'd better deliver this in
person. Meg!" she yelled, and a blonde dancer, older than the
little bellet rats, came out. "Can you dictate this class? I
have some, er, business to attend to," Meg seemed to understand,
for she nodded and picked up the class where Madame Giry left
off.
"Come. follow me," Madame Giry told me, and we were
off. She led me into a dressing room, and touched some places on the
mirror, which opened to reveal a passage. She walked calmly through
it as if it was an everyday occurance. I followed, and after about 10
minutes, we came to a lake, with a gondola sitting in the water. The
Madame gestured for me to help her row, and we were off. We rowed in
silance, for it was much work for us, since we were not very
physically fit. At last we came to the shore, and I saw what seemed
to be a lair. There was an organ, and a magnificent swan bed draped
in red silk linens. Sitting at the organ was a figure draped in black
and playing one of the saddest tunes I had ever heard, and singing
along in italian.
e nei suoi occhi
tutta la tristezza
del
mondo.
quegli occhi sbiaditi
che sia ha minacciato
che
adoro.
I translated his words into english for I had taken italian in school
And in his eyes
all
the sadness
of the world.
those faded eyes
that both
threatened
and adored.
I knew these words
must have been spoken by someone else. Then the Madame Cleared her
throat and the man turned around abruptly. I saw a white mask
covering half of his face, and a frown on his lips.
"Who is
that, Antoinette?" he asked sternly. "I thought I told you
not to bering anyone down here who I don't know," Madame Giry
opened her mouth to tell him something, but I knew that I could speak
for myself.
"I am Jaclyn, the personal maid of Christine
Daae. I walked all the way over here with a letter from her to you.
She needs your help," I told him courageously. It took me alot
of negotiating to get this out of the house, with the Viscomte
monitoring the mail, but I got it out," and I held out the
letter to him.
