Kelly Lamb/World spinning round
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
She was nervous, she'd never done this before with someone else, by her self yeah, but this was different. She shifted from one hoof to another “not thinking this is good, too big, it not going to fit.”
The male voice piped up reassuringly “don't worry, just relax, it will be ok.”
“no, it's too big!”
There was a crackle in the speakers “Can someone get her a different headset?” A sound tech opened the door to the recording booth and handed in a different style, one that looped behind the head. Kelly happily switched, these fitting much easier around the curving horns on either side of her face. “Much better, thank you!”
outside in the control booth the producer rolled his eyes, looking over at the person that brought the short sheep hybrid to the studio “why am I doing this again?”
“Because you owe me, and I owe her. If it hadn't been from her rescuing me in St Martial I wouldn't be here right now, and you wouldn't have another fat pile of checks to cash”
“huh, well that's true. So what made you think this up?”
The singer smiled “she sang while fighting the circle of thorns. I asked her why after she got me out of there and was taking me back to the Golden Giza, she said it was because she didn't like fighting , and it cheered her up.”
He grunted, cigar jutting out of one corner of his mouth “well we'll see.”
Inside the booth Kelly Lamb tried to ignore the musicians and the big microphone in front of her. She wasn't sure why she agreed to this either, but she did like music, it was one of the things that helped to break the control of her back when she was know in the Rogue Isles as Lambchop. “whenever your ready” said the guitar player. She nodded, taking a deep breath and closing her eyes, easier if she didn't' see all the stuff around her. As the music started, she began to sing.
“Was it loneliness that brought you here
Broken and weak
Was it tiredness that made you sleep
Have you lost your will to speak
Was the earth spinning round
Were you falling through the ground, As the world came tumbling down
You prayed to God what have we done “
Outside the producer sat their open mouthed, his cigar falling onto the floor, this was definetly not what he expected. The short heroine had a sweet soft voice, that channeled the emotion of the lyrics. With a snerk the singer picked up the cigar before it started a fire “Told you she was good.”
“Free me from these chains, I need to change my way
Heal these broken wings, I need to fly far away, far away, far away “
Kelly was lost in memories as she sang, the last time this song had come up was in her last fight with Aurora, where she was already on the edge of rejecting the orders given to her by Emperor Xanatos and the others. Then this song came up on her iPod. The fight should have been pretty one sided, except she only managed to get a half hearted swing in at the heroine before collapsing on the sand, sobbing at all the things she'd been made to do. The Longbow troops were ready to just put her on a chopper to Paragon City, but Aurora stopped them, saying it had to be a choice she made, not yet another that was made for her. Her hunch paid off, two days later Lambchop showed up at the Siren's Call gate, hand full of bombs that Arachnos had told her to set that she instead disarmed, and turned herself in.
“Was it emptiness that made you weep
No more secrets to keep
Was it bitterness that gave you time
To forgive your sins
Was the earth spinning round
Were you falling through the ground
As the world came tumbling down
You prayed to God what have we done “
Her trial was short, her lawyer, paid for by Longbow, probably could have gotten her off totally. While she had destroyed much of their equipment and facilities, and caused a few , ok more than a few injuries, no one ever died, she'd always gotten everyone out before setting off the explosives, after all, she was commanded to destroy the base, they didn't say anything about the people inside. She plead guilty though, and was given a suspended sentence, with community service on top of that. Which meant more fighting, but she could live with that, being she was now helping people instead of hurting them.
“Free me from these chains I need to change my way
Heal these broken wings I need to fly far away “
The producer turned to the recording engineer “We're recording this right!?” as he nodded he leaned back, cigar back in his mouth “you were right, this girl is damn good. Plus, i could probably get 40, maybe 50 percent on top!”
She was lost in the music now, not even noticing the band as they played. Her wings were healed, and she had flown far away. Shed' always felt a little on edge ever since defecting from the Rogue Isles, but now, in the studio, for the first time, she felt really free.
“Free me from these thoughts long forgotten down below
Take these angel's words give them life to carry on, carry on, carry on
Free me from these chains... “
The singer smirked “don't let her mannerisms fool you, she's smarter than she looks , just hasn't had any formal schooling. Besides, do you really want to cheat someone who could easily bench press your BMW without breaking a sweat?”
“er, like I said, standard 10 percent contract!”
“thats what I thought.”
(song is Spinning, by Zero 7. highly nifty band more of their stuff at http://www.zero7.co.uk/ )
