章 887: In Liminal Time

Because love is the most powerful force in the universe unfortunately, I went ahead and sat through a couple more rounds of ancient Kronocian throat-singing. 

Based on her song selections so far, it seems that Ria was on a long nostalgia trip through the decades. From fifties jive, sixties groove, all the way to seventies disco and eighties funk. She'd take intermissions after each song, diving into the fridge and returning back onstage with a donut or a drink or whatever to rejuvenate her clearly non-existent vocal cords. 

Then she looks up, every single time coming or going, she'd look up. Those playful, boisterous eyes reverting for a moment, the slightest second, glancing at the time on the wall, and immediately after, she'd be right back to it headbanging to the nineties.