There were few things Sadie didn't love to play and even less that slipped her gaze when it came to people throwing things in her case. It was habit really, from the days when she needed to keep careful track of every nickle, dime, and quarter thrown her way. She remembered the days, before she'd come to Repose, when paper money had been the rarest of the rare. She remembered spotting it at once and noting the dollar amount. She remember how it would draw special attention to whoever had thrown it. Looking back, it showed how far she'd come now that the latter fact still was the only part of it that was true.
"Thank you." Accent was low, as it always was when she was being careful to mask it. A careful ear could pick it out, a wash of American mountains and Irish seaside, but it was all tucked up under a polite smile and a flash of bluer-than-blue eyes.
"Cash money buys requests, if you have one like." The cadence itself might have been another giveaway that she wasn't from here, at least not originally. "Can play anything." She added, not so much brimming with pride but not short on confidence either. "Just need to be able to hear it once." Which was true and it always had been. Somehow the music just came to her, stuck in her head, and she could put it back together. Sometimes, if the piece was particularly technical, she might need to listen to it twice. Even then, by the second time she heard a song, she could pull it from the strings of her violin.
"Got a whole library of music up here too." A tap of the bow was given against her temple, to indicate what she meant. "So if there's a genre you'd rather? You just say if so and I'll put it together." She was so, so, careful with the words and with how she put them together. She'd relaxed on it some, prior to Kentucky, but now was more careful than ever. She couldn't afford to slip up now, to have to break her promise to Leena, or worse to lose the family she was trying so desperately to hold onto here.
The crowd had mostly gone, save one or two hangers on who were waiting to see what she might play next, but Sadie was all eyes on the nice bloke who'd thrown money in her case, waiting eagerly to hear what he might have wanted her to play.