#and backwards

UPDATE: IT IS CHANGING. AND HE IS NO LONGER TITLED THE MUSIC CONDUCTOR. I WILL OTHERWISE KEEP THIS POST AND TAGS AS THEY ARE FOR POSTERITY

Own your emotions, his first trainer had told him, years ago when he was nine years old and just beginning to understand what fate and the war had led him to do. If you can’t even admit what you feel, you can’t control it. He waits a moment longer, cataloging his reactions to the words hanging in the air; heart beating too fast, hands cold, a twisting in his gut that might be fear, might be guilt, might be something wholly different (something bright, something sparking, something he thought snuffed out when he watched the newsvid of her falling).

Turned upside down

I have indeed. My Grandfather built one and used to take us fishing on it every time we went to visit him and Nan.