It had been a long morning for Evander, full of moving, unloading, more moving and navigating. The movers had finally gotten his things up to his new room at the academy, and, after a few minutes of worrying for the sake of his window garden he had so carefully packed up, finally let out a sigh of relief as the two movers set down the last large box and departed.
"That was almost a nightmare....." the gryphon thought as he placed a talon on a box. With a swift jerk, the tape holding the cardboard closed was removed and the contents revealed; it was his record collection! A small smile crept across his beak as he thumbed through the vinyl disks; none of them seemed damaged or scratched from the rough handling... at least not that his eyes could see. He moved to open another box, the larger one the movers had set down before leaving, and his smile got a little bigger as he eased the flaps open; his record player seemed to have survived as well. It was only logical in his mind, then, to put on a bit of music while he unpacked everything else.
It took a few minutes of unpacking, moving and rummaging through the boxes to find the horn, but eventually the gryphon got the old record player up and going in the corner next to the desk. After checking the needle was still good, he filed through his records again, a talon scratching under his chin as he clicked his beak in thought... "Hmm.... Battistini...? Cab Calloway...? Or maybe Harry James...." the gryphon mused to himself, before daintily pulling out a random record. Setting it on the turn-table and winding the old player up, he set the needle down and went about unpacking and arranging the rest of his things as music began blaring from the brass horn into the room and the hallway.
"That was almost a nightmare....." the gryphon thought as he placed a talon on a box. With a swift jerk, the tape holding the cardboard closed was removed and the contents revealed; it was his record collection! A small smile crept across his beak as he thumbed through the vinyl disks; none of them seemed damaged or scratched from the rough handling... at least not that his eyes could see. He moved to open another box, the larger one the movers had set down before leaving, and his smile got a little bigger as he eased the flaps open; his record player seemed to have survived as well. It was only logical in his mind, then, to put on a bit of music while he unpacked everything else.
It took a few minutes of unpacking, moving and rummaging through the boxes to find the horn, but eventually the gryphon got the old record player up and going in the corner next to the desk. After checking the needle was still good, he filed through his records again, a talon scratching under his chin as he clicked his beak in thought... "Hmm.... Battistini...? Cab Calloway...? Or maybe Harry James...." the gryphon mused to himself, before daintily pulling out a random record. Setting it on the turn-table and winding the old player up, he set the needle down and went about unpacking and arranging the rest of his things as music began blaring from the brass horn into the room and the hallway.
"It seems to me I've heard that song before
It's from an old familiar score
I know it well, that melody..."
It's from an old familiar score
I know it well, that melody..."