[April 18, 2007] [Princess Tutu] Let Me Tell You A Story

Title: Let Me Tell You A Story
Day/Theme: April 18: Spring song
Series: Princess Tutu
Character/Pairing: Uhrmacher(OC), Johanna(OC)
Rating: G

She was playing the piano when he walked into the room. Head bowed and eyes closed, her fingers danced across the keys, playing a gentle, breezy melody. Uhrmacher paused a moment, watching her play, before clearing his throat. She jumped, surprised by the sudden intrusion into her world.
“Uhrmacher! I…is it time already?”
He pulled out a pocket watch and opened it. “Six o’clock in the evening. That’s the correct time, isn’t it?”
In response, a grandfather clock somewhere in the house began to chime.
“Now it is,” Johanna said. “Your watch is fast.”
“I’m the son of a watchmaker, and you think my watch is fast? No, Johanna, your clock is slow.”

She rolled her eyes. She liked Uhrmacher, but his strict punctuality had a tendency to feel very confining. To him, there was a difference between six o’clock, and one past six, and it seemed like every time she gave him a time to meet her, he’d confirm that she meant “six, and not a minute past, correct?”
She stood, ready to tell him that it wouldn’t hurt him to wait a few minutes more, but he spoke before she could. “That was a beautiful song you were playing.”
“Oh…thank you.”
“What was it about?”
She frowned. “What makes you think it was about anything?”
“Just a guess,” he responded with a shrug, putting his hands in his pocket.
“…A tree. It suddenly grows one day in the spring time, and anyone that can climb to the top of the highest branches of the tree will be allowed to ask one question of the oracle that lives there.”
“That sounds like an interesting story…I’d like to hear it sometime.”
Johanna smiled, sitting back down onto the piano bench and patting the empty spot next to her. “Sit down and listen. I’ll tell it to you.”