How Green Becomes Wood

"I'm really enjoying it," Daizi said, squeezing Dark's hand before he stood to stretch his legs in the aisle, "Especially because I actually know how one of the actors looks for once!"

"It is strange," Dark commented, "I do like the musical, though."

"I think it's a metaphor, in that I don't think he actually killed her. It's more that the result of the argument Hades and Persephone are having," Daizi mused, "and I think he's bringing Eurydice intentionally to hurt Persephone and make her jealous."

Dark looked down at Alec, ignoring the glances of other audience members who were clearly thinking he dressed up for this and committed perhaps too hard, "Must you call Hades what you call me after he manipulated a girl to get back at his wife?"
 
"Maaaayyyybe," Alec smirked. "Does it bug you?"

"I still think it's dumb," Xander stated. "I guess I could follow your logic, but it just doesn't feel right. Feels weird." Then, after a moment, he grudgingly admitted, "It's not the worst musical ever, I guess. Still pretty typical for a love story."

"Typical?" Alec gasped, putting a hand to his chest. "Typical? Seriously, how is this typical? She just died!"

"The dying thing is different, yeah, but since it wouldn't have happened if what's-his-face didn't have his head in the stars, it still counts as a third-act break-up," Xander stated.
 
"I should like to think you do not consider me a man who would do such a thing," Dark said dryly, still standing, but then turned to look at Xander, "It is certainly better than Cats, yes?"

"I really like that it has a unique sound," Daizi commented, "But what do you mean, a third-act breakup? We're only halfway finished with the story, there hasn't been a third act yet."
 
"Then it's the halfway breakup," Xander shrugged. "How can it possibly only be halfway? What's left to cover?" He added to his father, "Yes, it is better than Cats. Most things are."

"I liked Cats, and I like this," Alec stated.
 
"I really liked Wait For Me," Dark said, flipping open the program to make sure he had the song name correct, 'They had swinging lamps, Spider, and they lit lights back stage in time with the drum beats."

"That sounds amazing," Daizi said, very impressed, pretending like she had no idea what could possibly happen next.
 
"You're rid of C," Xander mused. "So it's a fancy C, not an E, and they want to get rid of it."

"Now you're doing it on purpose," Alec accused him.

"I'm just saying what I hear!" Xander protested. "It is a good line, but your name is better."
 
"You can't sing it as easily," Daizi sighed. "When we named Ivy, we tried to make sure there was rhythm to it."

"I would sing your name," Dark promised her.

Smirking slightly, she teased, "You don't sing at all."

"Not if I can be heard," He agreed, "I still cannot believe Hades looks like me."
 
"You should sing, Ba," Alec smiled. "Remember that one time at Karaoke? You were amazing!" He paused and added wistfully, "I wish we could do that again."

"It was okay," Xander agreed. "The karaoke. Ba was pretty awesome."
 
"I remember. I felt very uncomfortable." Dark said.

"But you sound wonderful," Daizi sighed, "You have the best deep, rich voice I've ever heard and you're so shy about it. Alec, if you want to go back to karaoke we can."
 
"I'd love to go back sometime!" Alec grinned.

Xander turned to watch some of the stagehands fiddling with something on stage just within sight. They quickly disappeared. "I saw a cool thing online," he remarked. "One of the ways our modern idea of a ninja came to be was because of Japanese stagehands. They were dressed all in black and would be on stage helping with the elaborate stuff going on, and they were supposed to blend with the scenery. But once in a while, the story had an assassination, so the audience would be shocked when basically part of the scenery would suddenly pop up and assassinate the main character. It was kind of cool."
 
"Whenever you'd like," Daizi promised him.

Dark watched the stage hands for a moment before finally sitting back down, "I did not know that, it is interesting. It makes sense. And if ninjas are meant to be stealthy, it would make sense they do not always wear a specific ninja outfit."
 
"Yes!" Alec crowed softly. "That's going to be fantastic!"

Xander stretched one more time and sat down. "Nope. They were more like ordinary people and mostly spied. There were a bunch of lady ninjas, too. The thing I watched talked about one, they said the exact story isn't verified, but stuff like it happened all the time, but a lady spying on some rival lord person fixed the books and then called the equivalent of the Emperor's IRS on him and got him executed for stealing funds."
 
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