The Park, Friday evening

[solo_sword]

Jaina was having the start of a very bad night. Not that she knew it right now.

No, she was just walking out into the powdered sugar, standing at the perfect place to gaze out upon the pond behind her at that camera angle, gazing out to where the sunset would have been if it hadn't already happened. Though it should be noted that the moonlight still illuminated her features perfectly.

"Neeeeeeeeeeeeeear, faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar, whereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeer you aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare..."


[OPEN. I've had a bad day month which has culminated in a dinner of Oreo cookies dipped in boozed up egg nog. If you don't get sang at, I will have to send other girls. And if I still need happy, who knows, maybe Buffy will end up as Whitney Houston. YOU DON'T KNOW.]

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[momslilassassin]

Ben blinked a whole lot. "I did? What are you going to sing?"

[solo_sword]

"Celine" laughed like this had gone exactly the way her stage manager had planned. "I'm so glad you asked. I will now sing my epic hit. One of them.

There were nights when the wind was so cold
That my body froze in bed
If I just listened to it right outside the window

There were days when the sun was so cruel
That all the tears turned to dust
And I just knew my eyes were drying up forever"

[momslilassassin]

"Um," Ben replied eloquently, "This song is really...something."

Something not good, if you asked him.

[solo_sword]

"It is, I know," she smiled.

"I finished crying in the instant that you left
And I can't remember where or when or how
And I banished every memory you and I had ever made"

The high note got a serious chest-banging out of it, too.

[momslilassassin]

"Doesn't that bruise?" Ben asked, tilting his head and trying not to wince at the note.

[solo_sword]

She just smiled and went on singing, because she was so used to beating her own sternum that she'd lost all feeling in it.

"When I touch you likfe this
And I hold you like that
It's so hard to believe but
It's all coming back to me
(It's all coming back, it's all coming back to me now)"

Oh hey, this song was not approporiate for your cousin.

[momslilassassin]

"Ew," Ben commented quietly. "Do you know another song?"

Please, please, please.

[solo_sword]

For whatever reason, such as the spacing being messed up on the lyrics site and having too much amaretto to care, "Celine" sang her next song in French. And very very quickly.

"Tu m'as ouvert les yeuxTu as guidé mes jeuxDis-moi ce que tu veuxJe t'aimerai toujoursTellement j'ai d'amour pour toiToi mon premier sourireMon premier souvenirToi qui m'a vu grandirMes bras sont bien trop courtsTellement j'ai d'amour pour toiMa vie est faite de tes yeux posés sur moiEt quand plus rien ne vaJe n'ai pas trouvé mieux que le son de ta voixToi le puits de sagesseMon bâton de jeunesseMa source de tendresseTu es mon seul recoursTellement j'ai d'amour pour toiEt pourtant tu le saisUn jour je m'en iraiMais jamais tout à faitJe reviendrai toujoursTellement j'ai d'amour pour toiJe donnerai la vie avec cette chansonÀ la petite fille qui portera ton nomTellement j'ai d'amour pour toiMaman j'ai besoin de tes yeux posés sur moiTu es ce que je croisEt ce que j'ai de mieux et accompagne-moiIl peut couler du temps sur tes cheveux d'argentJe serai une enfant jusqu'à mon dernier jourTellement j'ai d'amour pour toiJ'ai tellement d'amour pour toi "

See, really quickly.

[momslilassassin]

Ben stared. "Um, thank you?" he finally ventured.

He had no idea her Bothan? Rodian? Something he didn't know, anyway, was so fluent.

[solo_sword]

"Yes," said "Celine", "you are very lucky to be able to hear me sing."

[momslilassassin]

"That," Ben said, smothering a giggle, "is definitely true."