#Winter#

The preparation took relatively little time, with no need for any sort of costume due to the fact that Winter was in wolf form. The piano set up gave him rather nostalgic memories since it was the exact same one he had seen last, just more polished, as if it had been upgraded a little. 

The plant pot sat directly in front of the piano, with the seed already placed in the soil, ready. Winter took a deep breath and began to play. The sweet melody of arpeggios and scales and broken chords began to fill the room, with an alluring sort of trance. He began to increase the volume of the playing from piano (soft) to mezzo piano (medium soft), then mezzo forte (medium loud). 

The music started slowly coaxing the plant out of the seed, showing a small green sprout that was visible to only Winter, then began to grow into a small white flower bud. Then, the bud sprang forth glossy, white petals with a small yellow center, looking very much like a daisy. But not for long.

He began transitioning the music from major keys to minor tones, which gave a much more eerie yet mystical and entrancing sound. The daisy began growing bigger and bigger, until it was the same height as the small piano. He could hear the crowd ooh and ahh, and smiling, he began to incorporate more magic.

He started changing the daisy's color from white to creamy yellow, then a pale dusty orange, a sunset red, and then a bright pastel pink. He began to make the daisy glow a bright luminescent light, becoming like a spotlight.

Finally, he began to quiet down the music, transitioning back into piano, then pianissimo (softer), fading the glow of the daisy and changing the color back into white. He slowly stopped the piano music, shrinking the daisy back into its normal size.o

Finished and satisfied, he stepped away from the piano and gave a small bow. 

-Icarus-

Icarus marveled at Winter's performance. He'd seen it many times, of course, but it never got old. He was quite a talented wolf.

Even Blart was impressed. "Impressive performance," he grunted.

"Isn't he just marvelous, Blart?" Icarus said. 

Tilly flew in through the window, finally back, just in time to catch the last of the performance. She chirped cheerily and perched on Icarus's head.

"Ah! Tilly. I was just starting to get worried."

Tilly laughed. "You worry too much," she said. "Now where did you put the birdseed? I'm hungry." 

Icarus gestured towards the shelf he'd put the birdseed on, and Tilly fluttered away.

#Winter#

I'm glad the performance went so well, he thought to himself as he exited the stage. He was expecting that something could go wrong having not practiced in a while. Either way, he was pleased. He could even see Blart looking impressed, which was pretty big. He knew about the rarity of his praises.

Winter decided that he would stay nearby for about another week or so, depending on how he felt. But maybe one day...one day...he would finally reunite with his sister Leskie. Just not at this very moment.

I feel like I should post something on this just to maintain that Blart is still here and has not disappeared into the aether, but I don't really have anything for him to do, plus I'm a bit too busy right now to write something, soo.... [Insert basic, mostly useless post here]

#Winter#

Winter was helping himself to yet another bowl of beet soup when the door opened, and a group of who he supposed were performers walked through, the leader of them a white rabbit with brown patches.

"It's been a while," the rabbit sayid. "Miss us?"

From her voice, Winter could instantly tell that it was Mountain Ruffin, the leader of Sunsets Again, a group famous for their humorous improv. He smiled.

"Nice to meet you again," Winter greeted. "Haven't seen you in a while. You were quite popular back in those days. So you've decided to drop by again?"

BLART

- 

The rabbits nudged the door open and hopped in. Blart grunted a greeting to his familiar animal friends, and leaned back against the wall of the inn. It was good to see all of the old regulars again after it had been quiet for so long. Things were starting to move again; the Resistance was coming out of hiding; the Bog + Burrow had customers. Blart was looking forward to the changes happening across Kyngdom. That was, if he lived to see them. He wasn't as young as he used to be.

Sorry for the inactivity!

@GloomyBear Hemlock can perform after Sunsets Again; until then you can feel free to just roleplay with the others!

-Icarus-

Icarus blinked a few times; he could hardly believe it. "Mountain Ruffin!" He smiled at the rabbit. "Sunsets Again. It's good to see you all! Can I get you anything?" 

Blart's heading out because he's needed at the SOCKS RP, which is up now. Head over there and make a SOCKS charrie if you're interested!

BLART 

-

Blart stood up and limped to the door. He turned and grunted a goodbye to the animals who had always welcomed him to their inn, even though he was a human, and then ducked out the door. He was needed back at SOCKS's HQ---theyd probably blow up the whole lab if he was gone for too long. It was half the continent away, but Blart had his ways of getting around. If he hurried he could be back before lunchtime.