16
Opening Night
19 October 1943
They’d built a mess hall with a stage, but tonight it wasn’t a stage at all, but the inside of a Japanese house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan.
With their limited supplies, they had created a believable other world, complete with a view of the harbor below the house and through the window.
The last time he was this excited to perform was his defining moment a lifetime ago, in La Fenice opera house. Who would ever have known that this coming performance was more important even than that? It was the continuation of his journey toward his final destination. To see Mia Cara Rossa.
Oh, that she could be here to celebrate this milestone. His redhead. He laughed softly. He was distinctly soft in the head. He hadn’t seen her for two months, twenty days and thre
