Idol

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Sweeping array of blazing lights, a dizzying view to the stage below.

Cooling shadows outside the sweltering building, where a single figure takes shelter. Carefully, a hand raises to light a long, ivory cigarette with a snap of fingers. Lazy smoke filters into the night, coiling like a living thing as it encircles the figure's head and then floats off to the stars. Music seeps from the stone, a steady beat, like some great heart, throbbing to a drummer's sticks.

Flashing colors of white and red as two forms twirl under hot lights.

The figure steps from the shadows into the light of a dim street lamp. A breath of wind blows a discarded poster across the paved road, straight to the figure's feet. He bends and plucks it from the gutter, regarding the tacky advertisement for a moment before crumpling it into a ball and tossing it away. Slowly, he turns to look at the lighted arena.

Past glittering stilettos to long legs to vanish at the ruffling edge of ruby and diamond skirts.

Moving through the crowd with barely a thought, hands shoved deep into the pockets of his black trench, he glances towards the figures on stage, their features captured by the huge screens behind them. For a moment he fingers something in his coat, then proceeds.

A dizzying spin and up past the straps of the gowns, to hands clasping mikes as voices lift in song.

Tilting his lavender haired head to the skylights, he suppresses a smile, made sinister by the flickering lights. Turning back into the crowd, he heads for the stairs, still fingering the thing beneath his coat.

Ruby hair to diamond dress, eyes like fire as she turns to switch with the one in red.

A shadowy stretch of metal, wreathed in the hot source of the lights, is all that stands between life and death as he strides out to the space above the stage. As he withdraws the something a light catches his face, blue and violet sparks shimmer in return as he shades his eyes and looks below. A moment's aim and the something hurtles toward the idol singers below.

Teased hair, dark as midnight, accompaniment to brilliant sapphire eyes and ruby dress, she clasps her partners hand.

The singers stall, twisting around as the something strikes the ground between them with a sound of punctured wood. Ruby and sapphire eyes widen in astonishment and no little fear. Then the wandering lights wash across the stage, revealing the something. Twin roses, intertwined, one red, the other white. A glance towards the sky reveals a shadow moving away, two fingers lifted in parting.

A moment of shock, till hands clasp tight the unlikely gift, eyes following the shadowy figure out.

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