Guitarist Guild: A Musical Community Beyond Strings

Been sitting around doing lots of nothing lately, threw my back out a few days ago and chair bound.  Sat here tonight going through some old stuff, and decided Akasha shouldn't have to be the only one posting something up.

This one is from a challenge last year.  The challenge was to write something about the 'dark one'.  You know, the guy in charge of the pit.

By the way, this lost the challenge by a mile, but here it is anyway...