memorycraver
Book I of The 'Metronome' Duology
Time#II - From The 'Time' Series.
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"Once upon a time, I loved someone."
"So did I."
"He didn't live long enough."
"...Neither did she."
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One July afternoon, Vijaypath finds himself roaming the streets of Zurich in search of an Indian restaurant. Only to come across a child, his cries fraying into the pavement.
That same afternoon, he enters a music school with the child in search of his mother. Except that, in pursuit of the mother, he finds himself standing in one of the school's ensemble rooms instead.
And far in front of him, under the spotlights on the stage, there sits a woman, a violin in her left hand and its bow in her right.
For some time, the notes from the strings of that violin are all he feels and hears.
It is a piece by Mozart, he recognizes. The exact one, he finds it hard to recollect.
But then there comes a moment when she stops.
There comes a second in time when he sees her raise her eyes.
And when she raises them, all he sees is a pair of weathered pupils, like grey sapphires.
She tilts her face, confusion settling into those weathered greys, and all he sees is the deep black and burgundy of her lush mane.
At last, the bow in her hand stills over the strings, and all he sees is the white she is garbed in, set against the black ....all around them.
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