electro_kinetic | OOM: Concert, part 2

The stage itself is backed by a huge screen, big enough to nearly be an IMAX presentation, and the orchestra is in front, chairs empty. They're fashionably close to the starting time, because Noriko hates being late, and she didn't want to be too early: tucking her free hand in her coat pocket she walks with Hannibal, trying to keep her heels from clicking too loudly on the floor.

The seats printed on both tickets are quite good, being the center of the closest balcony, where the sound will blend and amplify without too much distortion, and a clear view to both the screen and the plalyers, but before they see any of that, there's the lobby to get through.

"Wow," Nori says, looking up at the starburst lights. "This place is pretty huge."

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cook_the_rude

"Let me take your coat," Hannibal offers.

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electro_kinetic

"What're you gonna do with it?" she asked, though on a half-chuckle given she assumed he only meant to hold it. She just liked messing with him.

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cook_the_rude

"Check it in, of course," Hannibal says. "Or what were you going to do with it?"

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electro_kinetic

"Keep it, in case it gets cold," she laughs. "Lest you forget this silk is really thin."

She's not really able to wear anything under it, either. Things could get a bit nipply.

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cook_the_rude

"Taking a coat into the venue is really not necessary," Hannibal informs her.

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electro_kinetic

"You know, there's a reason I wear long sleeves in public," she says, but shrugs off the coat anyway, and hands it over; doing so reveals that she's more than just a human young woman with blue hair, but the bullet scar on her shoulder and the gauntlets show her as mutant.

"You just want to see me get yelled at."

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cook_the_rude

"Nothing less," Hannibal says. "And I doubt anybody will."

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electro_kinetic

"You doubt, meanwhile I'm the one getting called a freak," Noriko says on a sigh. She knows it will happen, the only question about this was whether or not Noriko would hear it.

"I want to enjoy a nice concert for once and not need to leave halfway through."

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cook_the_rude

"These are polite people who know how to behave, just like you and me," Hannibal says.

Patiently, he is still holding out his hand for the coat.

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electro_kinetic

"Clearly you underestimate New York," Noriko replies, but does finally take her coat off, and hands it over. Already she feels much more exposed; the tattoo on her shoulder is visible through the chains that decorate her shoulders, but most of her discomfort comes from her gauntlets now being clearly visible.

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cook_the_rude

Hannibal turns in her coat, and proudly offers his arm again.

Clearly, he is quite happy to visit a concert with such a strikingly unusual young lady.

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electro_kinetic

Noriko has been idly playing with the thin, rosy chains laying over her shoulders int he time Hannibal has not been by her side, and though she hasn't ducked her head to avoid the gaze of many passersby, she hasn't been as openly staring them down, either.

She tucks a stray lock of hair behind her ear as she takes his arm, silver fingers resting on his jacket sleeve. She may be glowing--not out of happiness, precisely, but wariness.

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cook_the_rude

"What is the percentage of mutants among the general population in your world, do you know?" Hannibal asks as he walks her towards the door to the auditorium. "You are glowing -- and that is not a metaphor or euphemism."

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electro_kinetic

"We know of about a thousand," she says. "The world over."

Nori pulls in the glow, and it takes effort, leaving her still pulsing out a tremulous little light, like a flickering candle. "Sorry. It happens when I'm nervous. Or happy. Or both."

Which she is.

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cook_the_rude

"You are easily the most striking lady in the whole place," Hannibal says. "And we are going to hear some brilliant music. So there is reason to be happy, at least."

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electro_kinetic

Noriko cuts him a look at that, eyebrow raised as they walk together, and she manages to navigate stairs without falling. She's at least practiced in heels that high.

"Flirting?" she questions.

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cook_the_rude

"Not all compliments are meant flirtingly," Hannibal says. "It would feel inappropriate to do so in earnest."

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electro_kinetic

"Mind if I ask why?" she returns, trying not to fidget. It's difficult for her any day, but when she's nervous it's exponentially harder.

"Other than the obvious."

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cook_the_rude

"You feel like an apprentice, niece, or student to me," Hannibal says.

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electro_kinetic

"I'm gonna go with niece, everything is a little weird," Noriko says. "I'm...not doctor or shrink material." The conversation is nice enough to settle her down some, and they find their seats with minimal problems, though Noriko can't ignore the murmurs around her when she brings her hand up to open the stairway door.

"So where did you find the tux?"

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cook_the_rude

"In my closet," Hannibal says. "I have everything I need at Milliways."

Which clearly includes the occasional formal black suit.

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electro_kinetic

"Including goth formalwear, evidently," she says, making it into a question. "Did you ever watch the films?" Noriko asks. "Fantasia, and the sequel?"

Unfortunately, the occasional whispers about how she obviously wasn't normal were growing both louder and more frequent, one standing out as 'things like her obviously don't belong here' hung in the air for a moment. Nori was doing her best to avoid reacting, though her bicep twitched.

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cook_the_rude

Hannibal briefly turns his head and looks at the person who passed the comment, and shakes his head with mild tutting.

"Of course I did," he answers Noriko.

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electro_kinetic

"Never know," she says. "Some people are weird."

After a moment she lets out a breath Noriko had been holding without thinking about it. "I did tell you." She knows exactly how people can be here. "I used to hate the dinosaur one. Rite of Spring."