Sheets scattered upon the floor crinkled beneath her footsteps. She lifted the puffy pink skirts of her dress as she ascended the platform. She smoothed the dress beneath her thighs as she sat at the piano.
Her fingers danced up and down the keys. Fitting, she thought, that she knew the song Memory by heart. She swayed in the throes of the melody. Spotlights angled towards her platform reflected off the sequins sewed onto the chest of her dress.
Their speckled shine hit the cracked door to Kaede's Ultimate Pianist Lab, briefly illuminating a single blue eye watching from beyond.