Chapter 6: Audition
The ride to Elvin Production’s audition hall took about forty minutes.
The whole way, Averie secretly observed the interior of the car. It was so different than his time; so much had changed.
Meanwhile, Hyerin kept asking about his condition and if he needed help preparing. She wanted to contribute—that much Averie understood. Still, he found it funny that the applicant was confidently humming a song he had recently heard while his friend struggled to keep calm.
’Anyway, the music industry has also flourished,’ Averie thought. ’Great bands rose and fell, and now, they have become legends. Songs from four decades ago are available for free online, and new music keeps pouring in every day. Musicians can find audiences far more easily than before. And still, their egos have only inflated.’
He didn’t mind, though. He loved art, and he loved artists. They were funny beings. They created great pieces—even as their personal life turned to ashes. They were extremely flawed creatures, but their ingenuity earned them respect.
And once upon a time, Gene Conti too was extremely revered.
’But will Averie Quinn Auclair be similarly loved?’ he wondered.
No matter what, he was going to enjoy it. Everything he couldn’t do in his previous life, every ingenious idea he had but could not execute—all of it will be given a medium in this life.
"You should join an acting school," Hyerin suddenly said. "There are some good ones that I know."
It nearly made Averie chuckle.
’If there is someone capable of teaching the actor forged in Hell, I would love to meet them.’