I stared at my iPhone, incredulous from the message I just got. I stared at Otis, draped across the console, shaking my head.
He raised his head languidly, “What?”
“They need someone to run sound in the next hour.”
“Of course they do. Why?” He twitched his ears. “The original sound tech has been carried off by wolves? Or whatever you humans get carried away by.”
“They’ll pay me.”
“You spent years learning gain structure, EQ, feedback control, stage plots, and how to make a lead singer believe it isn’t the microphone’s fault…and somehow all of that gets compressed into one question: ‘Can you be here in an hour?’ “
Otis stretched. “Bryan owns cables. He’ll figure it out. Now, I admit, there is something satisfying about you walking into chaos and leaving with music.”
He stood and circled, getting ready for the inevitable nap.
“An emergency on someone else’s calendar is not proof of poor planning on yours. Sometimes you help because people need you. Sometimes you help because you love the craft.”
He scratched behind his ear.
“Every time you rescue someone, you teach them you’ll probably rescue them again.”
One more circle.
“Now, if you’ll excuse me, there’s a patch of afternoon sun that has been waiting. Unlike soundchecks, it showed up exactly when it said it would.”
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