At first, everyone kept their silent, as if no one dared to voice their opinion. And then, before the light completely vanished from the screen, someone in the middle raised their arms and shouted. "Woohoo!"
Of course, it was the site's moodmaker, the diva protagonist, the foxy omega Elijah.
"Eli..."
"What? It's so good! Don't we need to cheer?" Elijah argued when Jude tried to calm him. He stood and looked at Ashley defiantly. "Don't we?"
Ashley, who had been waiting for others' reaction, chuckled and nudged the director. The director, who was still drowned in self-assessment and criticising the movie inside her head, blinked and looked around in a daze.
"Clap," Ashley whispered, and the director clapped in reflex, prompting a chain reaction from the others.
As the room was filled with the sound of applause and the tension vanished, Ashley leaned back and crossed her arms. "Ah...it's satisfying when everything comes through like this, isn't it?"
