34 [Accidental Video] Forwarded to early morning.

[somethingspecial]

[Rachel is sitting on the steps of Solve, outside, holding a beat up acoustic guitar. It is a little big for her -- as are most things in Adstringendum, save for the clothes that Kurt managed to hem and tailor for her to fit her small frame -- but she manages it well enough. She carefully picks through the strings, frowning as she tunes it, her head tilted to listen to each note carefully. Apparently, it isn't to her satisfaction -- Rachel looks displeased as she fiddles with the strings before, finally, she beams.]

Oh, finally -- now...

[Rachel frowns to herself in concentration as she tries to remember a certain chord, just to test out her tuning and stringing job. She strums the guitar gently, singing something softly to herself, before she picks a song, brow knit in focus as she plays. There are a couple mistakes -- Rachel is only a recent fan of classic rock, after all -- but she manages pretty well -- and just when she opens her mouth to sing the first verse of the song --

Snap.

Two strings snap and whip across Rachel's fingers, causing her to nearly drop the guitar in surprise as the ugly sound echoes. She immediately shakes out her hand, tears welling in her eyes at the cut, before she glares down at the guitar.]

That was unnecessary -- ow --

[And the PCD cuts off at Rachel shaking out her hand, blood dribbling down her fingers.]

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[al_truism]

[Laughing, but he beams at her.]

Well, you are a musical prodigy. I should have guessed.

[somethingspecial]

[Rachel returns the beam with one of her own, finally grinning a little.]

It helps pass the time, anyway.

[al_truism]

What have you been up to otherwise?

[somethingspecial]

Teaching a dog how to unlearn something, mostly.

[Jesse has an overactive imagination, sob.]

And cleaning out the theatre, again. The flood destroyed a large section of it.

[al_truism]

Unlearn?

... and that theatre seems to have bad luck.

[somethingspecial]

Jesse taught her to bark whenever someone says the name 'Finn' because he thought it was extraordinarily clever.

[Rachel was quick to point out that no, it was not very clever, and he was properly chastised. 8|]

... and yes, it does, but I like to think that it will just have a grander re-opening the third time around.

[al_truism]

[Al just. Does not get that one. Have a "buh" look.]

It will, I'm sure of it.

[somethingspecial]

[It is a long dramatic story of eggs and ridiculous amounts of testosterone.]

At least it will be something to look forward to -- provided the next incident does not burn the entire place down.

[al_truism]

[Al will just not even. Where does one begin.]

We could always use the ballroom of Whipstaff.

[somethingspecial]

... would that be large enough?

[al_truism]

For practicing, definitely. It's a large place.

I used to live there.