Setting Fire to Her Lies
My masterpiece, the product of my passion and skill, burned down to ash before everyone's eyes.
At first, the room fell deathly silent. But after a few seconds, there came a thunderous wave of applause.
"Holy crap! This is some performance art!"
"Destruction as a metaphor for rebirth? That's genius!"
"I told you Cassidy was a genius, and geniuses operate at a level we can only hope to comprehend."
Most of them assumed this was a carefully planned piece of performance art. They believed it was an artistic response to the accusations of plagiarism. They didn't fully understand it, but they were deeply shaken by it.