#;kanade

Alice felt a sense of nostalgia as she wandered through the music store. She had come to a place like this a few times with Lorina years ago. On display were shelves of sheet music, records, and a variety of musical instruments along with associated paraphernalia. Looking at a collection of violins displayed on the wall, Alice thought of a dear friend she’d left behind in Wonderland... and winced at the memory of his musical ability.

Also displayed were some keyboards. These, Alice was a little more familiar with, having taken a few piano lessons—also at her sister’s urging. It was supposed to be a ladylike hobby, though these keyboards looked decidedly less so than an actual piano. Alice glanced around a little shyly, then tentatively played a short measure with one hand.

The sound it made was not a normal piano sound. Instead each note sounded like a dog barking. Alice flinched back in surprise, and grimaced when she looked up to meet the gaze of a girl browsing the sheet music, alerted by the sudden noise.

“Sorry! That’s... haha... not what a piano should sound like.” Of course she knows that, Alice berated herself. She looked at all the knobs and buttons on top of the keyboard; maybe those had changed the sound. 

The composer thinks about all the times music has been the source of her most precious memories. Her dad sharing music he made with her and her mom in the park, her mom gifting her a music box before she passed and of course...How music was the entire reason her parents met, from what her father explained prior to his breakdown.

Even now, music is the reason she has friends and actually leaves the house.

It's why Kanade smiles shyly, tucking some of her long silver hair behind her ear when she thinks about Nightchord at 25:00 and her goal of saving lives with music becoming closer and closer.

"It's everything to me. I know it isn't my life, my body doesn't stop if a song isn't playing, but...Everything I've become and everything precious to me, it's all because of music."

" s-sorry ! "

The brunette fidgets as she smiled tentivly

" um, hello?"

Kanade swears to herself that leaving her house is always the worst decision she could make. She should honestly just have Honami get her food, although her hired maid only came by once a week.

"HHaaahhh..." Breathing heavily, Kanade is holding tightly to her bag of cheap ramen cups, her hair down to her ankles only making this heat worse in her eyes.

That's when she looks to the brunette with a look of complete anguish, admittedly she's honestly not dressed properly either as she wears an oversized track-suit jacket and pajamas shorts.

"Hot...Too bright..."