Post by camila calderón on Mar 2, 2024 21:49:56 GMT -7
March 4, 2029
Between living in a mews house that she had purchased only recently in a non-magical area of London and getting most of her fan mail sent to her team rather than to her directly, Camila didn't receive much by owl unless it was something that she had ordered herself, and that was very rarely because of the rules around magical secrecy. Waking up to a large owl on her windowsill holding a sealed envelope in its beak was a shock, and the official nature of the envelope was even more of one. If someone she knew needed to reach her, then they would just call her or text her on her mobile phone.
Confused but certain that the letter was for her, given that the name and address scrawled on the outside of its envelope were her legal name and address, Camila opened her bedroom window and retrieved it from the bird. It was a legal letter from someone whose name she didn't recognize. Although she was only half awake, Camila read through the letter, thinking that it probably wasn't something that she wanted to put off.
It wasn't. The letter was from a legal representative of the all-witch group Spellbound, who had been at the height of their popularity some thirty years prior, and its tone was one of the stiff sort of wording that Camila hated plowing through in contracts before she signed them. The band was issuing her a letter telling her to cease and desist in relation to her English-language song "Cat Among the Pixies" from her album Superstar, claiming that it sounded too similar to one of their hit songs from 1999.
Camila wasn't sure why Spellbound couldn't have brought that issue to her attention sooner, when the album her song was on had been released in March 2025, four years before her receiving any suggestion that it wasn't original, but the last thing she wanted was a media circus. She was going to have to contact her team to figure out her next steps, especially if Spellbound really did plan to take her to court.
There was no point in trying to go back to sleep with so much on her mind, so Camila decided to message Lance, her boyfriend. It wasn't enough of an emergency to call him and potentially wake him up, but she did want to let him know what was going on.
Sending an audio recording of her voice instead of typing, she explained the situation. "Hi. I just got a letter from someone, and I guess I want to tell you because I'm a little confused? It's work stuff… But I think in person is easier?" she began.
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Confused but certain that the letter was for her, given that the name and address scrawled on the outside of its envelope were her legal name and address, Camila opened her bedroom window and retrieved it from the bird. It was a legal letter from someone whose name she didn't recognize. Although she was only half awake, Camila read through the letter, thinking that it probably wasn't something that she wanted to put off.
It wasn't. The letter was from a legal representative of the all-witch group Spellbound, who had been at the height of their popularity some thirty years prior, and its tone was one of the stiff sort of wording that Camila hated plowing through in contracts before she signed them. The band was issuing her a letter telling her to cease and desist in relation to her English-language song "Cat Among the Pixies" from her album Superstar, claiming that it sounded too similar to one of their hit songs from 1999.
Camila wasn't sure why Spellbound couldn't have brought that issue to her attention sooner, when the album her song was on had been released in March 2025, four years before her receiving any suggestion that it wasn't original, but the last thing she wanted was a media circus. She was going to have to contact her team to figure out her next steps, especially if Spellbound really did plan to take her to court.
There was no point in trying to go back to sleep with so much on her mind, so Camila decided to message Lance, her boyfriend. It wasn't enough of an emergency to call him and potentially wake him up, but she did want to let him know what was going on.
Sending an audio recording of her voice instead of typing, she explained the situation. "Hi. I just got a letter from someone, and I guess I want to tell you because I'm a little confused? It's work stuff… But I think in person is easier?" she began.
lancelot ray linley