2424/Creating inspiration

Creating inspiration
Date of Scene:	28 January 2017
Location:	Verone Academy - Classrooms
Synopsis:	Miku finds an old, strange book that is most definitely NOT magic by origins.
Cast of Characters:	Sakura Kinomoto, Miku Kohinata

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Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
It was a cold, rainy day today. The kind of day where someone might, say, curl up on the couch with a loved one and watch a movie.

Instead, students like Miku were asked to organize and take care of some things. Which was why she was tasked with going through some old boxes of junk for her music class to toss out. Basically, just told to take everything down to the furnace where it'd be burned. Mostly books that were too old and useless and damage.

However, when she had grabbed a box, one of the books had fallen out. It was a very old music book. The first few pages had a long, beautiful ballad about a maiden given in to temptation and having to be sealed away by her love, never to be seen again. An opera song? But it wasn't finished.

On the inside, there was only two initials. CR. And it looked really, really old.

Miku Kohinata has posed:
Cold, rainy days used to be some of Miku's favourite. She and Hibiki would curl up by the heater and tell stories, play games, or on rare occasions: watch movies. All of her memories of days like this one are happy memories.

This day, however, is not a happy one. The reminders of Hibiki are physically painful to the poor girl. At least she's had a lot of hard work to distract her from it. Unlike most of her classmates, Miku has thrown herself into the cleaning project, hauling books and boxes without any complaint at all.

It keeps her mind off Hibiki.

As she makes her way into the furnace room, though, the loud thump of book hitting floor catches the girl's attention. With a grunt, she hoists the heavy box onto a table, then kneels down to pick up the fallen book.

She should just put it right back where it came from in preparation for discarding, but something about the beautiful cover draws her attention, and she hesitates. Running her fingers across the embossed cover, she studies it, then flips it open. "C.R.?" she whispers quietly, curiously.

Skimming over the blalad, Miku begins humming a few bars to herself, quietly, as she studies the melody. "Pretty," she says after a moment, then sets the book aside.

Grabbing the box of books, she takes it to the furnace. Her burden relieved, Miku goes back to the book and leaves back towards the classroom, still leafing through the pages of the songbook curiously, singing the first song to herself as she goes.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
It was beautiful, who ever had written it was truly talented. Not surprising considering where the school it ended up in. But... it was also abandoned. And unfinished. The majority of the pages were unfilled and would probably remain so, once the teachers found the book.

After all, of what value was some nameless kid's notebook? They probably tossed dozens of forgotten ones away. And this one looked like it was really, really old.

If she asked the teacher, the woman would just shrug and say it was trash, to toss it. But if no one wanted it, maybe she could keep it? So many empty lines that almost seemed to be... begging to be filled.

Miku Kohinata has posed:
Miku doesn't even bother showing it to a teacher. Finds like this are absolutely fair game during cleaning days. Instead, she just tucks it in her bag, and then continues going about her cleaning.

It's a few more hours before she gets back to her room, cold and sore and tired. There, she pulls the book back out and sits down at her desk. Pulling out a small keyboard, she plugs it into her laptop and starts to play the song in the beginning of the book, singing the ballad as she plays.

When she reaches the end, she considers the song for a few moments, then leans forward with a pencil to scratch a few notes between the last few unfinished lines.

Then, a little inspired, Miku flips forward a few pages and starts writing her own song, about a sunflower that misses its shadow in the rain.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Across the school, in the middle of one of the fields, a small sunflower began to rise up, its shadow missing as it looked around, trying to find it. No one had noticed it, yet, but it was only a matter of time. Since sunflowers were big.

The song was beautiful... and sad. A woman giving into the desire for power, her love trying so desperately to save her, but being unable, finally having no choice but to seal her away forever.

Miku Kohinata has posed:
Her little sunflower song finished, Miku sighs and leans back, eyeing the book with a quiet sense of satisfaction. "Hibiki," she murmurs softly to the thing, then stifles a yawn. "Maybe if I can't find you, I can at least write songs for you."

Closing the book, she sets her pencil atop it, then gets up to disconnect her keyboard. With everything put away, Miku goes about the business of preparing for bed. Maybe tomorrow she can write another song for Hibiki.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
After a few moments, the sunflower began to fade away, disappearing into a fine mist... for now.

Not at all ominous or anything.