Incidental Bits Thread #3

[Labster]

Yomi pulled her bike off of the beach path onto the grassy side, and over towards a pair of redheads.  One of them was practicing doing flips and handstands, but the other was just sitting and staring — not out to the ocean, but instead staring at a blank page in a spiral notepad.  "Still can't come up with the next act of the show?"

Mia sighed.

"That bad, eh?"

"What's the point of coming to another universe if the critics here already know the entire Kaleido Stage repetoire?"

Yomi thought about launching into a discussion of malleable continuity, but decided against it.  Mia had read her book, after all.  "I don't think there is a point, Mia."

Mia sighed again.  "You have any bright ideas for an act?"

"I don't know.  How about... 'The Burning Woman Hurling Through The Air With Dynamite In Her Hair Over Sharks And Spiky Objects, Caught By The Man Locked In The Cage'."

Mia declined, "Yeah, no, I don't think we're going to use that."

"Yeah, we did that already back in the Black Moon Circus," Vesta chimed in.  "Way too derivative."

Yomi and Mia both glared at Vesta.

"What, do I have something on my face?" she said defensively.

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This scene is derivative of Matilda the Musical, at least in the name of the act.