Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Aasrel Izei (Chief Medical Officer) in Holosuite 1- Finding the Melody

Posted by Commander Shara Calloway (Executive Officer) in Holosuite 1- Finding the Melody
The issue of a setting for their lessons had been rolling around in her mind. She didn’t want to assume that what would be comfortable for herself would equally be comfortable for Aasrel.

So Shara compromised.

Her mind drifted to those late nights on Arkelis after she closed Tank’s. She would sit at the piano (the only one she had access to at the time) and play like no one was watching. Which had always been the case until that fateful night that Edward Calloway had wandered into the tavern with his freighter shipmates.

Shara looked around at the well-lit room, sunshine cascading in through the windows. It was a simple space with a pale hardwood floors and the piano sate a couple metres from athe bay window, facing a wall so the light cast onto her hands as she played, as well as any music she wanted to put up on the rack. The open door to the music studio led out into the verdant surroundings, trees casting shade, and the dense underbrush adding the smell of green, growing things. It wafted inside without any of the allergen issues some people experienced.

She sat at the upright piano and lifted the fallboard, exposing the keys. She the back of her fingers along them from the first key (A), up four and a half octaves to E, letting her hand flick off at the end. She then set about doing some warm-up arpeggios, starting with simple ones and working up to more advanced exercises. She did this all from memory.

~Shara Calloway, XO

Aasrel stepped in while she was still doing her warm up exercises. He stood in the door momentarily, looking a little nervous. Finally he stepped further into the room, stopping quite a ways from her and the piano. “Hey.”

~ Izei, CMO

“Hi,” she said, briefly glancing in his direction before she continued playing. The song changed into the melody of a simple children’s lullaby: Au Claire de Lune. She played it with her right hand only, her fingers stroking each key lightly.

“Come join me. I promise we’ll start slowly,” Shara said.

~Shara Calloway, XO