Satoru just ignores the jabs. They're fairly weak ones, anyway, nothing interesting enough to respond to. The music is far more interesting, and Satoru's electrified with it. She loves music no matter what, but she also loves challenges and puzzles, something difficult enough to be interesting. This is something exceptional, and she wants so much for it to work, and only Suguru can make that happen with her.
"I know," Satoru says, a bounce of eagerness in her voice, like an energetic puppy. "I do, too. It's not exactly something I could test out on my own." She hears it in her head, but there's always a blurring effect with imagination. The mind simply elides over things that are missing or incongruent. It works in her head, but that doesn't mean it'll work in person.
She doubts they're going to rehearse the whole show. They both know the songs and arrangements, and there's a certain element of improvisation that Satoru wants. She expects that Suguru feels the same. It would have been an easy, obvious thing to demand an extra day or three of rehearsal so they could run through the show together. Neither of them do choreography--they're both too focused on the music for that--and while there are lights and effects, those change from stage to stage and are easy to learn in the pre-show run through and setup. So they hadn't needed to coordinate anything other than the music, and Satoru is pretty sure that they're both preparing for that like a duel rather than a dance. Their music is going to be something alive, something flashing back and forth between them, rather than something rehearsed.
But this has to be rehearsed. The life in it during the performance will be the tension between them, the energy of keeping their voices entwined, something vibrant and real. In order to do that, they have to already know the push and pull of the piece, and the interplay of what Satoru created. Satoru knows both parts, and she'd given Suguru a little more of the lead (it's her song, at heart), and herself a few more of the discordant beats, the stranger and more challenging part. The two parts aren't marked, but Satoru knows Suguru will be able to see which one was crafted for her voice.
Following after Suguru, Satoru lets her take control of what accompaniment she wants for this, how she wants to run through it. Satoru just waits, vibrating with anticipation until she can sing.
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"I know," Satoru says, a bounce of eagerness in her voice, like an energetic puppy. "I do, too. It's not exactly something I could test out on my own." She hears it in her head, but there's always a blurring effect with imagination. The mind simply elides over things that are missing or incongruent. It works in her head, but that doesn't mean it'll work in person.
She doubts they're going to rehearse the whole show. They both know the songs and arrangements, and there's a certain element of improvisation that Satoru wants. She expects that Suguru feels the same. It would have been an easy, obvious thing to demand an extra day or three of rehearsal so they could run through the show together. Neither of them do choreography--they're both too focused on the music for that--and while there are lights and effects, those change from stage to stage and are easy to learn in the pre-show run through and setup. So they hadn't needed to coordinate anything other than the music, and Satoru is pretty sure that they're both preparing for that like a duel rather than a dance. Their music is going to be something alive, something flashing back and forth between them, rather than something rehearsed.
But this has to be rehearsed. The life in it during the performance will be the tension between them, the energy of keeping their voices entwined, something vibrant and real. In order to do that, they have to already know the push and pull of the piece, and the interplay of what Satoru created. Satoru knows both parts, and she'd given Suguru a little more of the lead (it's her song, at heart), and herself a few more of the discordant beats, the stranger and more challenging part. The two parts aren't marked, but Satoru knows Suguru will be able to see which one was crafted for her voice.
Following after Suguru, Satoru lets her take control of what accompaniment she wants for this, how she wants to run through it. Satoru just waits, vibrating with anticipation until she can sing.