Schnuckel was smaller than the crowd around her suggested she ought to be, a compact force with a shaved side and a crown of platinum hair that caught the strobes and refused to melt. Her outfit tonight was an exercise in gentle violence: a leather harness that traced the line of her collarbone, a silk skirt slit high enough to be practical for the music, and boots that sounded like punctuation on the concrete floor. Not aggressive so much as insistently present. People fell into orbit around her, not so much from celebrity as from the curiosity of someone who seemed to have learned early how to both invite and deny.