<br/>Magic item charges refresh at an 'absolute' time each day (the circlet of rapid casting specifies 'dawn', for example; most just say 'each day' or 'per day' without giving a time of day but I always assume it's dawn unless otherwise noted) rather than when the possessor rests.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Neither doorman showed any hesitation about letting his gray eyes plunge down Kass's cleavage. They nodded, seemingly both at this and her greeting; the one with the pipe tipped out the lit tobacco, and crushed it underfoot. The lit orange glow of the former contents quickly died on the wet cobblestones.<br/><br/>Speaking only by gesture, they turned and ascended the steps lightly, throwing open the doors.<br/><br/>The music within suddenly grew a bit more distinct, a series of dramatic thunderings from baritone brass instruments and heavy drums. The foyer chamber was wooden-surfaced but two stories high and brightly lit by a chandelier of several score candles. Ticket desks stood to either side of the front doors, an attractive lass and heavyset bodyguard beyond each; beyond these the foyer widened into an expansive with two high-pedestaled statues, the left of a dancing female and the right of a rapier-wielding and orating male. Beyond these were three sets of red wooden double doors, each with one other usher dressed in a similar manner.<br/><br/>Several tall tapestries  hung about the room, each one displaying some personage in a theatric or dancing pose, with the faces sewn in careful detail; perhaps they were supposed to be recognizable individual performers in the city. The two doormen led the way to and opened a nearly imperceptibly single door in the right hand wall.<br/><br/>This gave way to a wooden corridor which slowly slanted up, and, at intervals was pieced with several window-like apertures facing<em>inwards</em>. Each looked over the heads of darkened rows of half-filled theater seats of burgundy velvet. To judge from the opera house's exterior dimensions, this was the auditorium which occupied its center and most of its volume. The only light came from the far stage. A fairy-tale woodland set was bathed in soft light green and purple light, the backdrop a great painted curtain of endless forest vista, and the primary stage-edifice the suggestion of a ruined castle tower jutting out from the stage-right (the audience's left) wing.<br/><br/>Several slender lasses danced upon the stage, movements fluid with the suggestion of water, but quick, and they were made up with aquamarine colorings, fake elf-ears, and sparing outfits seemingly made of leaves; probably they were supposed to be elves or dryads.<br/><br/>From the faux castle turret choked with fake vines, a fair woman in vaguely bridal attire sang. Her voice carried hauntingly, the words beseeching the 'fey' below to return a stolen child begot upon her by a man they had apparently stolen before that.<br/><br/>The pit orchestra beneath the stage alternated stanzas of the booming notes with soft, flute-based passages, seeming to mirror the singing woman's tumbling emotions and alternate appeals to the better angels of they or to their fears of reprisal.<br/><br/>The two doormen before Kass and Aria never glanced through the apertures, leading around the curve of the ring-shaped opera house past several open or closed doors which appeared to be dressing- or prop-rooms.<br/><br/>Eventually they passed the stage's left wing on their left, affording Aria a view right between the spaced layers of curtains which were used for the entrances and exits of performers while masking the backstage from the house. A set of male dancers waited in the wings, 'armed' with wooden silver-painted swords and similarly dressed like armored knights from the waist up, but with muscular legs (and very tight butts, Aria noticed) girded only by silk hose. High overhead, dark-garbed young women moved about on catwalks, amongst pulleys and levers and ropes from which other set pieces dangled.<br/><br/>Only once they were behind the huge hanging canvas serving as the painted woodland backdrop for the stage set d the two men stop and turn, near the centermost of three wooden doors along the back outer wall of stage rear. One whispered, "One moment, pardon, while we seek to speak with the one you seek, and can indeed bring you to he or he to thee."<br/><br/>But something in his manner and tone would give a sense to both Kass and Aria, causing the latter to give a sidelong glance to the former and cough discretely, that something was wrong, like they spoke with more impostors or double-crossers or those seeking to lead them into some sort of deception or trap.