Chapter 1: The House Lights
The house lights were up. The Understudy stood in the middle of the stage and waited. It was very good at waiting.
In the stalls, a heckler unwrapped a tomato, slowly, the way people unwrap things in theatres. Up in the gods, someone found a lever.
The lights went down. Somebody gasped, theatrically. The Understudy took a very deep breath.
To be continued!!!
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