A Very Special Canterlot High Holiday.

Adagio Dazzle looked into the large glasses of Photo finish as she gazed back at her, the gaze un-breaking. Adagio had dealt with her type many times before, those talent agency and editor types who could break the wills of even the strongest girls to test their mettle on the road to "fame." True her days of such things were long behind her, and now she had to tone her judgmental tendencies back massively as a high school drama teacher, but she could still tell if this girl had a good idea on her hands or not.

"So you want to open the play with a musical performance? One completely unrelated to the play itself?"

"Yes Ms. Finish, I've finally healed my vocal cords up stronger than ever, and have my tone and pitch perfect, observe." Adagio stood uppatted her chest and cleared her throat.

Dancing bears....painted wings...things I almost Remember...and a song someone sings...once upon a December."

Her siren powers, restored as the power of mind minipulation as the muse of musical perfection caused long pink smoke clouds to emit from Photo Finish's ears and travel like eels as long tubes into Adagio's, their thoughts and perceptions linking in a strange and uncanny ritual not of mortal man.

"That song...I told took my daughter also named Photo Finish to the movies to see...where that came from." And just like that, memories of velvet seats, hot buttered popcorn and and her little girl jumping with joy at the exciting momments and clinging to hear during the scary ones, like...that dream scene, all came flooding back to her, and she felt like she was living them all over again. Photo Finish fell to her knees, tears in her eyes yet also as if she was soaking in a warm milk bath while scarfing down chocolate bon bons.

"So I take it we have an understanding about my recital piece Ms. Finish?" Adagio said with her toothy slasher smile, even if her intentions were FAR from malicious this time.

"Yes...that song...so haunting, so beautiful, they must hear it even if it was made seven years after my play, my beautiful play would be nothing without it." She said crying at Adagio's feet kissing the top of her boots.

"Hey! Enough of that now, I just need you to say yes...and maybe...have Rarity make me a new show dress for it?" She said smirking at her, sure her intentions where self indulgent this time as opposed to malicious and destructive, but at least those she dazzled fwlt indescribable pleasure from it, even if she couldn't make Photo bitter and and angry the she once could.

"Anything you wish just let me enjoy your beautiful song again please Adagio!" She said begging her.

"Alright Alright enough, for fucks sake woman get a hold of yourself...jeez." Said Adagio as she helped Photo up and broke the connection between them, she shook her head and looked around.

"So you'll be singing Once Upon A December at the show than?" She said as if nothing had even happened.

"Yes, my backup singers Sonata and Aria will be joining me and I assure you, the audience will be quite...captive come show time." She said pinching her cheek playfully. Adagio swaggered across the auditorium, smiling as she envisioned them all in their seats lost in the rapture and bliss of her call, as auras danced across the floor sendng cascades of light from the stage lights as The Dazzlings fed on them. As much as she ALMOST didn't want to admit it, it felt good to feed on auras produced from making others feel good as they were dazzled.

"Turned her play into a winter pageant for everyone to show rheir skills off, oh irony thy name be Adagio." It wasn't lost on her given what she had done to the LAST showcase the school was throwing.