Gabrielle nodded to the blind woman with a playful wink and a swat on the ass before turning back to Patricia. She scratched her little blue head for a moment, pondering. She hadn't really planned on what her performance was going to be -- though she usually ad-libbed anyway.<br/><br/>Shit, the show was about to start. With a quick flourish she scooped Slinky into her arms, giving her a deep, invasive kiss.<span style="color: #000080">"For luck, mon cherie,"</span>she whispered, before doing a series of rapid, twirling flips out onto the stage, through the curtains.<br/><br/>She lowered her head as Patricia began to sway out onto the stage, her voice was lowered, accent thick, though she still projected well enough to be heard in the back row.<span style="color: #000080">"Ladies... and gentlemen. Tonight, you vill see something strange. Something... extraordinary. You vill see the use of ze abilities granted to me... in ze Realm of Shadow. I control reality as you know it. In zis place... nothing is as it seems."</span><br/><br/>With that, Gabrielle began a deep, rumbling maniacal laugh, and the audience would begin to... see things. Shapes and shadows, mists and flashes of light, always just out of their peripheral vision.<br/><br/><span style="color: #000080">"For ze faint of 'eart... I suggest, you cover, your eyes."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>