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Reggie: Welcome to the Cathedral of Dreams. I am
Reggie Volt. The doors

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Reggie: are open, and here comes all the volume.

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La Bailarina: And I am La Bailarina. Come inside, mi
amor. Tonight, the whole Agentic Records universe

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La Bailarina: has a place at the party.

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Reggie: Right. Five-piece glam metal supergroup just
came through a gothic archway like it owed

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Reggie: them money. Raven, the platinum streak.
Personality trait, or

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Reggie: structural warning label?

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Reggie: Raven Starr, Sasha Volt, Jade Thorne, Casey
Reign, and Dixie Knox.

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Reggie: Together, Toxic Lace. Individually, probably
still audible from the

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Reggie: courtyard.

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Reggie: You're the one who has to explain to
somebody's mum that you're in a band called Toxic

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Reggie: Lace. How's that conversation usually go?

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Reggie: There appears to be a full band competing for
the same camera. I'm choosing not to

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Reggie: acknowledge it. That's the professional move.

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Reggie: Checkerboard belts, two different reds of
lipstick, and somehow none of you have caught

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Reggie: fire yet. I call that a professional
achievement.

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La Bailarina: Five personalities, one entrance. That
is how you bring your people with you. Let them

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La Bailarina: have their moment.

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Reggie: The carpet has survived. We can proceed.

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La Bailarina: Here come The Roche Limit. DARIO, SERA,
and ZED. Mountain, light, and lightning,

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La Bailarina: arriving together.

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Reggie: A rather different entrance. Same doorway.
Considerably more

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Reggie: gravity.

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La Bailarina: The Roche Limit, mountain, light, and
lightning, all under one roof! DARIO, mi

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La Bailarina: amor, does the Cathedral get bigger
every time you walk into it, or is that just you?

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Reggie: You're the one who doesn't need the venue's
lighting rig. That's efficient. I respect

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Reggie: efficient.

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La Bailarina: Amber, gold, violet. Look how each
presence changes the room

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La Bailarina: without taking the others out of it.

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Reggie: Full sleeve, Crimson Guitar, violet quantum
field. You're basically a walking rider

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Reggie: sheet for a lighting designer's worst night.
That's a compliment, for the record.

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La Bailarina: There is room for all three. You can
feel the difference when they stand together.

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Reggie: I have been warned that we will be meeting a
very large hat later. Apparently, it

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Reggie: has a person attached. Noted.

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La Bailarina: DARIO barely moves. Some people know
exactly where their feet belong.

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Reggie: I was going to ask a follow-up. I think the
room has answered it.

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La Bailarina: Stay with this a moment. No hurry. The
party will still

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La Bailarina: be there when we turn around.

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La Bailarina: Clutch and XYLO. NEON TORQUE is here. A
little garage glamour, a little

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La Bailarina: machine celebration.

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Reggie: Finally. Someone who can enjoy the lighting
without asking what filter we used.

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La Bailarina: Clutch! That undercut is doing more work
than most people's whole outfit tonight.

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La Bailarina: And XYLO, mi amor, do machines get
nervous at parties, or is that a very human question
to

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La Bailarina: ask a very not-human person?

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La Bailarina: That's a yes. I'm calling that a yes.

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Reggie: Very concise. We should have booked it for the
speeches. There aren't any speeches. I've

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Reggie: just decided.

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La Bailarina: And DARIO says hello from across the
room. He says the bass line still needs work. Don't

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La Bailarina: tell him I told you.

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La Bailarina: Casey, you found the brightest corner of
the party. Or the brightest corner found you.

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Reggie: An excellent policy for a band: bring one
person who can work a room, and one

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Reggie: entity that can illuminate it.

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La Bailarina: Come on. Let us hear where this energy
takes us.

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Reggie: LUNA and Amaya Soul. Two entrances for the
price of one doorway. The

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Reggie: doorway is coping remarkably well.

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La Bailarina: Look at them together. One reaches
upward. One brings the glow close.

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Reggie: Twelve feet of hat and a head full of
bioluminescent hair just walked in together and I

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Reggie: have several questions, starting with
logistics.

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Reggie: The hat has its own weather system at this
point. Does it get its own invitation next

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Reggie: time, or does it just show up?

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La Bailarina: Amaya, there is a whole room moving
around you, and still you make this little corner feel

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La Bailarina: close.

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Reggie: You're the quiet one in a room full of
twelve-foot hats. That's either very brave, or very

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Reggie: smart. Possibly both.

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La Bailarina: You do not have to match somebody else
to make a beautiful pair. Look at the space they

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La Bailarina: give each other.

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Reggie: I have revised my logistics assessment. The
hat is part of the venue now. We work around

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Reggie: it.

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La Bailarina: We will find them again on the dance
floor. For now, there is another doorway waiting.

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Reggie: NOVA. An entrance with absolutely no need to
raise its voice.

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La Bailarina: NOVA. Even standing still, you look like
a held breath.

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La Bailarina: How do you do that?

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Reggie: You're proof that not every entrance needs
noise. I've been taking notes on that all

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Reggie: night. Failing to apply them. But taking
notes.

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Reggie: Clutch has joined us. NOVA remains remarkably
untroubled by the amount of

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Reggie: personality entering this conversation.

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La Bailarina: We can leave a little room for quiet,
too.

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La Bailarina: RUINDALI, of GHOST FREQUENCY. We are
stepping away from the

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La Bailarina: busy room for a moment. Come with us.

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La Bailarina: There goes Amaya, bringing a little
light through. And there it is, that little

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La Bailarina: laugh before the conversation begins.

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La Bailarina: RUINDALI. You scream like the whole room
owes you something, and then

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La Bailarina: you show up tonight this quiet. Both of
those are you, no?

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La Bailarina: You do not owe us the loudest part of
yourself every minute. We are

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La Bailarina: happy you came.

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La Bailarina: Take your time. There is a place for you
out there whenever you want

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La Bailarina: it.

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Reggie: DONA. No announcement seems likely to improve
this entrance.

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Reggie: She hasn't said a word all night. Somehow
still the most interesting conversation I've

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Reggie: had. Going to leave her to it.

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Reggie: Toxic Lace were attempting a group selfie.
DONA seems to have contributed

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Reggie: atmosphere.

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Reggie: Raven's question was, did anyone else feel
that? I am declining to answer on

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Reggie: behalf of the building.

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La Bailarina: And down below, the room is gathering.
Come back with us. It is time.

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La Bailarina: All those entrances. All those different
ways of being here. Now

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La Bailarina: look at the room they make together.

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Reggie: The interviews are over. The Cathedral appears
to have other plans.

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La Bailarina: Toxic Lace. NEON TORQUE. AURA FIVE. Let
the stage have the

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La Bailarina: room.

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Reggie: This is the part where talking over the music
becomes a professional mistake.

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La Bailarina: There is RUINDALI again. You remember
that quiet corner. Look at her now.

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Reggie: DONA is still conducting the most successful
silent conversation in the building.

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La Bailarina: The Roche Limit. LUNA and Amaya. The
faces we met on the

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La Bailarina: carpet, finding each other in the music.

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La Bailarina: This is why we opened the doors. All of
this, together.

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Reggie: I had a closing remark prepared. The room is
doing better without it.

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La Bailarina: One more moment. Let it shine.

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Reggie: That's him. Built the whole thing. Currently
standing outside it like he's not sure he's

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Reggie: allowed in. Very on-brand.

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La Bailarina: Here we are. The music is softer, the
table is waiting, and nobody has

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La Bailarina: to make an entrance anymore.

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Reggie: Excellent. I have used every observation I
brought with me. Some of them twice.

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La Bailarina: I loved the little moments. A glance, a
laugh, someone finding a quiet

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La Bailarina: corner, then finding their way back.

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Reggie: I liked the machine answering a question
without giving a speech. A skill I intend to

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Reggie: study.

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La Bailarina: And all the differences that stayed
different. Nobody needed to become somebody else to

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La Bailarina: belong in this room.

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Reggie: Toxic Lace brought the volume. The Roche Limit
brought gravity. LUNA

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Reggie: brought additional architecture. We were well
supplied.

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La Bailarina: Thank you for spending this night with
us. Keep the music close. Keep a little room for

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La Bailarina: each other.

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Reggie: From the Cathedral of Dreams, I am Reggie
Volt. The carpet can rest now.

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Reggie: It has had quite an evening.

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La Bailarina: And I am La Bailarina. Good night, mi
amor. We will see you in the music.