towerofanimus | The mun loves Kreisler so much you guys

Characters: Luke, and you.

Setting: Floor four.

Format: Prose at start, go whatever way you want.

Summary: Luke vents by playing violin. Well, the few songs he knows.

Warnings: Apprentice missing teacher. Abusively linking youtube videos. Potentially puzzles and tea later.

Bit by bit, Luke was adjusting to the puzzling nature of the tower. Sure, he wasn't exactly keen on half of the technology around, but he was accepting of it. What he couldn't seem to adjust to was being alone.

Oh, sure, there were plenty of people around- Luke had talked to several, and nobody struck him as being cruel. (Though he had more of an understandable confusion about the trolls from what he'd peeked on the computers, but a gentleman doesn't make assumptions.) It wasn't as if he spent every waking moment with them, and of course he missed his parents strongly as well, but...the Professor was his teacher, and the boy missed him desperately. It just didn't feel right to not have the Professor, or Flora about. Surely nothing had happened to them- Luke could never accept something so ridiculous as that. But their absence was still a sore spot. Layton alone could organize and soothe even this sort of situation, with only his intuition and wits. Why, if the Professor had been 'saved' instead of Luke, then this whole mess would have been solved and everyone could return home-

Maybe he was losing heart that Layton would come and rescue him. Or maybe he was just saddened, because even if this was all resolved...he would just have to go back to his new home, not London. Whatever the cause for his malady, Luke had sauntered down to the fourth floor, set his violin at ready and begun to play. It wasn't perfect, and some of the notes came too quick or too harshly, but it was more soothing than sitting in his room and moping.

...even if he was standing and staring rather sulkily out the foggy windows as he played

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Kanaya listened to him play from across the room, it was an interesting sound, one she was unfamiliar with but not unfond of. She crossed the room to see who was making such nose and was more than a little shocked to see Luke there. He seemed so young, even if he couldn't be that much younger than herself.

"I enjoyed the sound of that, what is it called?" She says lightly as to not startle him, "I don't think we had anything like that on Alternia."

Luke nearly snapped the string of his bow across the bridge when Kanaya suddenly spoke up, wincing as the violin made a shrill squeak in protest. He kept from dropping the instrument just barely, whirling around and puffing a relieved sigh at Kanaya. Trying to not startle him or no...Luke was a bit of a jumpy john.

"Um, thank you," He wasn't being a bother, right...? He'd come to this floor because people seemed to avoid it. "It's Liebesleid, by Fritz Kreisler." The boy didn't seem to catch on that she had meant the violin, more than the song. "Alternia...oh! You're a, troll, correct?" He seemed pretty uncertain on his wording- it seemed so derogatory! -but what else was he supposed to refer to them as?

"I did not mean to sneak up on you, it was not my intention. I apologize," she says as she notices his reaction to her. She hopes it is because Luke was concentration too hard and wasn't taking in his surroundings and that it wasn't her appearance.

She shakes her head a bit, "I don't know who that is, nor am I particularly familiar with what it making the sound. Rose has used one before but I have not asked about it in previous conversation. And you are correct, I am a troll."

"No, it's not a problem, don't worry!" Luke pouted, hoping she hadn't taken offense to his spastic habits. "I just wasn't expecting anyone to come down here."

Luke blinked several times, looking at his violin, then Kanaya. "Um, he's a composer, he wrote the song." Luke held the violin up properly, almost holding it out for Kanaya to take but, reconsidering at the last minute. "And this is a violin. It's a string instrument." He tucked the instrument under his chin again, playing up the major scale, then down again. He rested the bow, looking slightly curious after a moment. "Someone else here plays...?"

He twinged slightly embarrassed when she admitted to being a troll as well, lowering the violin. "Is it okay if I call you all Alternians instead of 'trolls'? It seems so...rude to refer to someone like that."

Kanaya nods at him, "Rose plays quite well from the one time I... observed her playing," from a computer terminal on another planet, whatever, "She is from Earth but is one of the four Earth children the trolls and I had contact with. I could introduce her to you if you so wished."

She looked at him a bit confused. She didn't understand that troll could be offensive, it's just what they are but, "If you would feel better calling us that, I will not protest."

"Did she bring her violin with her, too? If not, I can share!" Luke seemed increasingly excited about the thought, rocking on his heels a little bit. "I've only been studying for a year or so now, but I'd love to meet her. Maybe she could help me improve...!"

He paused, raising the bow and violin back to rest under his chin, sighing. "Troll just... conjures up the thought of huge, ugly monsters. You guys aren't like that, so Alternian seems more proper."

"I don't know if she brought hers with her, but I will make sure to ask her next time I see her," and she will make sure to ask, "perhaps you can both improve while here."

Kanaya nods again, the Earth perception of troll is rather odd, "I do not mind being called a troll as this is what I am but if you feel more comfortable with Alternian then go ahead."

"I just don't want to offend anyone, really." Luke wasn't always sure how best to be considerate. "But if 'troll' is fine...I suppose it is the more common term." He didn't look happy, but he accepted it.

"I've actually been practicing a new song while here...it's still a little rough, but..." He held his breath, exhaling out his nose, and played a few bars of a decidedly different song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_oDM7aDmoc). Despite concentrating more, he seemed to warble a lot more on the notes.

The mun loves Kreisler so much you guys

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