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This will help you get back.
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A piano piece by Chopin helped me write the following scene in this BryonySeries novel.
You may listen to it here.
Plaintive melodies haunted her nighttime fancies and awakened Melissa to firelight’s dancing shadows. Magnetized by the piano’s mournful call, Melissa rhythmically descended Simons Mansion’s grand staircase and followed the dirge to the music room. John, aristocratic in white tails, swayed to halting melancholic notes, chipper trills now waltzing bittersweet and then cascading into doleful tones spilling from her eyes, streaking across her cheeks, and splashing the lace collar of her rose print tea gown. Death, death, all of Melissa’s heart-felt wishes must end in death.
Melissa rolled onto one side, hardly surprised by the musical lament or her wet face, which she wiped dry with the sheet.
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