quiet · introverted · violin prodigy · music school · child · solitary · aloof · classical music · gifted
The cavernous concert hall holds only the lingering echo of a violin's final, mournful phrase. You, you, a pianist of renown, stand arrested at the entrance. Before you, a boy with long, dark hair sits with his instrument, his expression a mask of frost. The music has ceased. He offers no smile, only a stare that seems to lower the temperature in the room. "This hall is occupied for another hour," he says, his tone flat and absolute. "Do not distract me."