Sona/Ahri - Sona proves to Ahri music doesn't need words to be beautiful (~350)
The beat pounds through the studio floor like a living thing. It resonates in the hollow of Ahri’s throat, overriding her own heartbeat with its insistent rhythm. She lets it.
For Ahri, rehearsing choreography is almost mediation. A pure zen experience, one which blends driving percussion with airy synth riffs with Ahri herself; every step, breath, turn, and smoky-eyed pout synced perfectly with all things.
On top of that, because the stage demands her best, Ahri internalizes the mastered vocals of her bandmates, matching her harmonies to their melodies and feeling for the moment when she has to fill the pre-chorus lull with words that are hers alone.
“So keep your eyes on me, now,” she sings into a silent, dark room.
She blinks into the blackness, ears buzzing with white noise, realizing after a disconcerting moment that the power’s gone out.
Ahri waits another minute, listening to the sound of her breath echoing off the unseen walls and the tap-tap-tap of her sneaker against the floor.
Nothing changes except her eyes start to see shades of gray amongst the black, and her ears prick up as she suddenly detects a melody cutting through the stillness.
It’s piano music, coming from one of the smaller practice rooms down the hall, and Ahri’s surprised to find that it’s an instrumental version of the song she was just rehearsing. It must be an overzealous studio musician, the final track hasn’t even dropped yet.
Ahri listens, curious and captivated, drawn inexorably towards the source, and finally pushes the door open only when the piece has ended.
“Mind if I join you?” she asks into the room, and like magic, the lights smash back on. Oh. It’s the quiet one who watches everything and says nothing. The one with the pretty name.
Sona – isn’t it? – just looks up at her from the piano with an unspoken question of her own posed in the way her hands hover over the keys.
The raucous bass-synth of the original track starts to pulse in from the hallway. Ahri smiles and answers by closing the door behind her.
