Topic: And Rhapsody Did Come

Eternal Rhapsody

Date: 2008-03-16 01:36 EST
She felt pulled there, to this new world, so she followed. Rhapsody Blue was a muse, and there were those in need of her, here.

She found herself in the city streets, guitar case slung over her shoulder. Her boots crackled over frost-hardened leaves and the sun was setting. She smiled, breathtaking as always, these scenes of nature. It was no wonder so many had need of her services, they never took the time to find it in their own environment, in nature.

Rhapsody moved through the crowds towards the center of the city, seeking a place to find solitude at the end of the day. She did not sleep much, but liked partaking in the aspects of the act. She had discovered a love of fuzzy slippers and silky robes!

Short skirt blowing in the wind that suddenly came up, Rhapsody ran her hand down the back, lengthening the red and black plaid skirt just like that. Her jewelry jingled, bracelets tinkling together like a wind chime, and earrings swayed with each step. She smiled at those she passed, pale pink lips curving. She approached a place called the Red Dragon Inn, and entered. Procuring a room for the time being, she took herself there to unwind and to think.

Her luggage (Yes, even a Muse needs clothing) would appear there as if sent by the winds. A butterfly, out of place and wing flutters sluggish from the cold, sat perched atop her train case. She spoke soothing to it, softly, and cupped it in her hands. "Little one, you should not have followed me here. Go home to the paradise you come from." With that, she tossed it in the air, what looked like silver pixie dust sprinkled in her blonde hair, and the butterfly was gone.

She sighed, sad that her only friend had to leave, but she was confident she would find new ones here. After all, someone had been praying for a muse, or she wouldn't have been pulled here.

Eternal Rhapsody

Date: 2008-03-16 21:12 EST
Rhapsody returned to her small room after a walk through the city. She'd ended up near the river, and had enjoyed her afternoon stroll, that is, until she'd had to use a bit of Muse magic to get herself out of a jamb. She'd been a near victim of a mugging!

It surprised her a bit, but it was nothing she wasn't used to. She'd lived on Earth in some of the larger cities, and had relished in all the experiences she could find. Her life was a lonely one on the most part, but she did have those shining moments of peace and joy. Moments when, due to her aid, artists the worlds over were able to create, and in so, make the worlds somehow better.

Always the optomist, Rhapsody had given the mugger a bit of coinage, despite his violent attack upon her person. She felt that, if his situation where better, he would become better too.

Butterflies were decorating her room when she returned, several perched on the axe of her Ibandez, her baby, her favored guitar. She smiled and hummed to them all, wondering how they were surviving here in the cold.

A quick change of clothes, and Rhapsody was once again on the move, this time her baby, encased in it's soft gig bag, was slung on her back. Time to find a place to play, or at least, get a lead on finding someplace.

Eternal Rhapsody

Date: 2008-03-17 16:55 EST
Rhapsody climbed from her small bed, stretched, and smiled. She loved the feel of the early morning sun on her body, the kinks and knots melting away with the heat.

Languid, effortless, she began her morning exercises. To anyone watching it would appear that she was a dancer, shifting through a warm up, and using the top of a dresser as a barre. Her feet went through the positions, her eyes closed and she moved to some internal music.

Rhapsody had been lounging about for a few days now, and she was getting restless. She dressed; donning a black baby-doll t, short pleated skirt of black corduroy and metal studded belts. Knee high stockings of red and black plaid were smoothed over slender calves, and combat boots were laced tightly to mid calf. Silver bangles clinked musically as she brushed out her long, wavy blond hair. Makeup was applied, and with her gig back strapped to her back, she set out to find some amusement, some trouble, or someone in need of her services.

The butterflies that had taken up residence in her room fluttered to the window, watching for her in the street as she exited the Inn and went walking towards the Marketplace.

Eternal Rhapsody

Date: 2008-03-26 19:42 EST
He called, and Rhapsody did come.

The musician opened the door, hair wild and a frantic gleam in his eyes. His hands shook as she took one of them in her own. They shook from too much coffee, or perhaps too much of something else. She clucked her tongue and led him into his home.

The stench of stale beer and cigarettes lay heavy over the rooms, blanketing the faint scent of creation. She could smell it though, so that was a good sign. The odors of a musician rarely varied, so she was used to the blanket of odors.

The bloody guitar lay in the middle of a stained, stiff, and filthy carpet. Glasses of stale liqour, overflowing with ash and cigarette butts were placed upon every reasonably flat surface, crumpled music sheets and scribblings of lyrics littered the room as well. Candles guttered in their pools of wax, many about to go out. The lighting was awful, the stench worse, and she had to step over piles of crusty laundery to get to the one relatively suitable seat in the place.

She sighed once more, and shook her head. Why was it the most gifted always insisted upon choosing the most damaging environs in which to create? This would not do.

"First off...you must clean this place. Nothing will flow in you if it is clogged like your kitchen sink. The mold is dangerous to your health, not to mention the grade of drugs you've been doing. No, no...don't protest. I can smell them here, but I don't care. Sometimes it makes it easier for me to open your mind if it is already humming with some other substance. I won't say a word." Wrinkling her nose at the piles of moldering dishes, crusts of food and take away wrappers, Rhapsody smiled sweetly, smoothed his cheek and motioned for him to go shower. "Go, cleanse your body, you stink. I will take care of this, and then we will get to work."

The heartbroken, battered musician padded down the hall, and Rhapsody began to clean. Again she found herself wishing for more than her powers of a muse, for some magic or a spell to clean. It was always the same thing, filth that she ended up cleaning in order to get them on the road to unblocking themselves.

She heard the shower turn on, and with hands on her hips, she looked about the place. Oh well, time to get to it.

An hour later, with all the windows open to let in fresh air and after chasing the largest of the dust bunnies out the back door with a broom, Rhapsody dumped the last of the garbage on the back step. She really needed to get some cleaning charms or something. She was a Muse, not a housekeeper!!

Her newest client had returned, dressed in fairly clean jeans and long hair dripping. He smiled weakly at her, and she saw the love-struck gleam in his eye. She returned a smile, and held out a hand. It was easier for them in the beginning if they thought they loved her, so she allowed it to be so.

Lithe, langorous, and beautiful, she led him to the now clean couch. Pointing to the guitar resting in it's stand, she urged him to pick it up. "Let's hear what she has done to you, sweet one." Holding up a hand against the inevitable protest she always recieved from heartbroken, too macho to admit it, musicians. "Ah ah ah...I am your Muse. I am Rhapsody, and I am yours until you need me no longer. I do not want to hear excuses, I know she broke your heart. Let me hear the pain, we can work with it." Scooting closer to him on the couch, she crossed her legs beneath the rather short, black, and pleated school-girl skirt. Boot tapping as she bobbed a foot, her long blond hair tossed to one side. Her smile was coy, teasing, and it did the trick. He played for her, and she could hear the exquisite pain in the notes. Ah, so he was a genius, just lost. Good. This would be a piece of cake.

Rhapsody nodded, handed him a pen and a fresh notebook, and ordered him to write. She shushed him with a gentle fingertip agaisnt his rather tasty looking lips, and he obeyed. They always did.

Eternal Rhapsody

Date: 2008-03-28 17:50 EST
She had spent days with him, nights too, before it was all said and done. The young musician, Michael, was complete again. She had shared her thoughts, her opinions, and then her body with him. His heart was healed, his music came in great gushes. It was heartbreakingly beautiful, and then cruel and painful. He worked his anguish through, and was left with several songs that they would beat down his door to hear.

Rhapsody left him in the night, kissed him soundly before slipping out into the misty midnight. Moon high, she made her way back to her little room at the Red Dragon.

Her smile was beautific, serene; and the little butterflies that lived in her room greeted her with a fluttering, graceful dance. She slipped into a hot bath, soaking away the hours in that little, dark home. Michael's caresses were lingering on her mind; he had told her he loved her. She sighed, because they always did. Not one had ever truly loved her. It was always the curse and gift of a Muse; they fell madly in love with her long enough to re-discover their talents, and then...bittersweet parting. She knew it, they knew it, but it still didn't help that melancholy feeling she always suffered from. If only, just once, Rhapsody could know love...TRUE love, however brief.

A single tear, all that she ever cried for her artists, slipped down that porcelain cheek. She wiped it away and rose from her rapidly cooling bath. Butteflies alighted in her hair as she clothed herself in blue silken robes, draping herself in that ancient Greek style of dress that she chose to lounge in. Rhapsody felt more alone tonight that she had ever felt. Was she losing her touch' She had never mourned the loss of love so much before, she had always known that it was fleeting, and more in the minds of her artists than it was in thier hearts.

"I need to get out, to play, to be a musician myself, for awhile. I need time to recover from this one, oddly. He touched me, I think. Oh well, such is the life of we Muses." She spoke more to the butterflies than to herself, and looked for more suitable clothing. She needed to go out, to pretend to be human for awhile. She needed to pretend that she had a chance at happiness for herself.

Eternal Rhapsody

Date: 2008-03-28 17:50 EST
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