An Abandoned Stage

[goblet_fulla_fire]

Goblet had soaked into the bustling crowd of eager students with everywhere to go. He had not been interested that much in the multitudes of sweets, latest broomsticks, or food Hogsmeade had to offer. Goblet's unmonitored wandering just led him place to place with only the curiosity to explore to motivate him. Soon his footsteps led him to the more secluded locations of Hogsmeade. This was one area that failed to interest the common Hogwarts student. A stage was set up in the corner. It was made out of a shabby wood with stair steps on both sides. And that was about it.

Any chairs that were used to the convenience to the appreciators of art were long gone. Instead there were stores on the other side of the road. So anyone who would so happen to perform would be to the appeal of the passersby. Other than for the intent of acting and presenting a play, Goblet wondered what other purpose could it have served? All Goblet knew was that it no longer serves any specific man's purpose.

But it IS a stage. Nobody is using it. Nobody would mind if Goblet destroyed it. Perhaps maybe they would since it would create a mess, but Goblet had a better idea.

Nobody would mind if he performed. And if they did paid mind, then it would be for their own benefit.

Goblet trotted up the stairs. He was now center stage. He didn't care if he was a bad actor or a good actor. This would be just for, well, fun.

Goblet tried to recall dialogue from somewhere instead of improvising a plot. What was a memorable piece of work to him?

"Good evening, the worm your honor!" announced Goblet, performing strange bows and striking finger pointings. "The prisoner who now stands before you was caught red-handed showing feelings... showing feelings of an almost human nature. This will not do!"

[Sky]

Sky walked outside of the old building. She pulled her black cloak tightly around her as a breeze whisked through the air, blowing her black hair into her pale grey eyes. She pushed the hair back and looked at the building. There was a voice coming from it. The voice seemed so...familiar to her. She quietly walked up the steps and peeked her head inside. Once she seen Goblet acting, she leaned against the doorway with a smile. Once has finished, she clapped her hands together. "Ah bravo! Bravo!" She exclaimed.

[goblet_fulla_fire]

Goblet received a boost of motivation through the single applause. Like he was designating a lightning strike, he pointed at the viewer who he had identified as Sky. "Toys in the attic," said Goblet. "She is crazy. This prisoner, if I could have my way, I could have flayed her into shape." Goblet was still heavily resorting to Sky through strange pointing body movements with the arms. "But my hands were tied and the bleeding deluded supporters let her get away with actual emotions! Let me hammer her today!"

Goblet's improvisation had led him to make an invitation.

[Sky]

Sky giggled. "I never knew you acted." She said with a smile. She walked up to the stage and looked out onto the empty space where the audience would be. "Imagine if this place was up and running. It'd be a nice place." She sat down on the stage so her feet hung over the edge.

[goblet_fulla_fire]

Goblet heard all of her words, but did not act on them. Goblet still gestured heavily to Sky as she sat down. "You're really in it now. I hope they throw away the key. You should have talked to me more often than you did, BUT NO! You had to go your own way. Have you felt anything lately?" Goblet now referred to the invisible judge. "Just five minutes, worm your honor, me and her alone!"

[Sky]

Sky laughed. She had no idea what or who Goblet was impersonating, but he did an excellent job. She looked up at him. "So what brought you into a place like this?" She asked him.

[goblet_fulla_fire]

Goblet considered it to be rude for him to ignore Sky any longer in the real world. "Just the simple way of letting my own feet guide me instead of my brain. I walk with other people, I dodge other people, but I never think where I am going. It's either fate's gift or an appreciated coincidence that I am here. Upon gazing upon this rickety structure here, I sought to perform not for myself, but TO myself. For if you do not care what conjured thoughts the pedestrians may conceive, then there is no stopping you to doing what you want to do!"

[Sky]

Sky was slightly amazed that a student at Hogwarts would have such feelings about something like this. "Wow." Was all she could really say. She thought it was pretty neat that he acted despite the crowd of people. He didn't mind others' opinions. She stood up and looked him over. "You should do a performance for a group of people sometime. I'm sure they would pay you too." Sky said. She knew it wasn't about the money.

[goblet_fulla_fire]

"I do not seek money. My occupying the stage was of something for myself. If anybody were to think that this rambling of a courtroom plot with cryptic sentences taken from an album were something they could call along the lines of art, then they can gladly see my performance. This not something I seek to be source of fame or money. This is just a simple, little, activity," said Goblet.

[Sky]

Sky nodded. "Right." She said. She wandered around the building, looking at the old cracks in the ceiling and the scuff marks on the floor. It was a part of history.

[goblet_fulla_fire]

Goblet resumed to his careless but not entirely tasteless acting and continued to use Sky as his subject. Now this was the part where Goblet was the mother. "Babe!" he pleaded. "I never wanted her to get in any trouble. Why did she ever leave me? Worm, your honor, let me take her home!"

[Sky]

Sky smirked. He sure did have talent. She thought.

[goblet_fulla_fire]

"THE EVIDENCE...!" shouted Goblet, turning abruptly to Sky. "before the court is incontrovertible! There is no need for the jury to retire. In all my years of judging I never seen anyone more deserving the full penalty of law. The way you made them suffer, your exquisite wife and mother, fills me with the urge to scream!" Goblet was almost near Sky's face now. "SINCE, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear, I sentence you to be exposed before your peers!"

[Sky]

Sky noticed he was close to her face and poked his forehead. "Exposed before my peers eh? So if I fear something...I shall be humiliated before a crowd?"

[goblet_fulla_fire]

"Actually, that's just the end of the song," said Goblet with a long laugh. "I just recited a song whose lyrics are extraordinary, which therefore have been etched deep in my mind. I apologize if I went too deep and went in your face and all that."