arianne
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Post by arianne on Dec 6, 2006 20:22:45 GMT -5
"So here we are!" Arianne said as they walked through the door. "It isn't anything fancy, but... I rather like it, actually. Nowhere like this out in the feilds of Thala, I'll tell you." She looked around the room and spotted a seat by the window. "How about there?" she asked, pointing.
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Post by matthias on Dec 6, 2006 20:48:32 GMT -5
"That's fine." he replied.
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arianne
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Post by arianne on Dec 6, 2006 20:50:52 GMT -5
After they had sat down, she leaned forward and asked, "Do you sing? Or play an intrument, for that matter?"
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Post by matthias on Dec 7, 2006 15:35:34 GMT -5
"I'm.......somewhat intermediate with a guitar, but it's been so long since I've played."
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arianne
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Post by arianne on Dec 7, 2006 15:41:47 GMT -5
She looked down at her own instrument, which she still held in her hand. It was something like guitar - similar shape, anyway, although the sound was far different.
"Here," she said. "Try this." And she handed it to him.
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Post by matthias on Dec 7, 2006 15:52:18 GMT -5
He picked up the instrument. He played a few notes. It played a lot like a guitar, he thought. He attempted to play an old folk song he remembered from a long time ago, but he blundered halfway through it. "Guess I'm not as good as I used to be....."
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arianne
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Post by arianne on Dec 7, 2006 15:57:40 GMT -5
"No, no, not at all. Be optimistic." She grinned. "You're actually very good for someone who hasn't played in a long time."
She brushed her hand over the strings of the intrument. "And besides, even though it's much like a guitar, it's not the same. Notes are a little different, you know?" She thought for a moment, then said, "And you're convinced that you're totally hopeless as a singer?"
Because if not...
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Post by matthias on Dec 7, 2006 16:06:05 GMT -5
"I've never really considered singing before. Never really tried it...........do you think I should give that a shot instead?" he asked.
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arianne
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Post by arianne on Dec 7, 2006 16:12:24 GMT -5
"Both," she said. "Not instead. A voice isn't anything without music, and music isn't anything without a voice - oh, well... actually, music is something without a voice, but only if you're very good at playing." She laughed shortly. "But yes. Please give it a try. You could be surprised."
She took back her instrument and struck up a tune, one that nearly everyone knew the words to or at least the melody. An old soldier's song - the type her father used to sing to her when she was young.
It went: Tonight is the morning of a sunset after midnight Where the sky is black And the sun is bright And the silent whispers of yesterday come for you for you Tonight is the night Of the morning Of now.
It was a beautiful song, she thought, but unfortunately people knew it so well that they seldom actually thought about the words. About what they were saying. Arianne herself thought it was about how some things turn everything upside down. How sometimes things that are seemingly impossible just happen.
It's nice to believe things like that, sometimes.
She played the melody and waited for Matthias to start signing.
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Post by serehna on Dec 7, 2006 17:08:33 GMT -5
Serehna walked into The Handful of Feathers and saw the strange instument. She decided to take the table next to it to get a better look. She had never really been interested in music.... though this instument was so strange. She said " That's a very... unique instrument you have." She barely even noticed the man sitting with the girl.
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arianne
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Post by arianne on Dec 7, 2006 17:13:19 GMT -5
Arianne, not halting the chords of the song, looked up. She smiled a small, polite smile. "Oh, hello. My brother made this odd little instrument. Half harp, half guitar, it is." She looked down at it, closed her eyes for a moment and listened to its delicate sound while her fingers still worked, as if moving on their own. "I love it. I treasure it more than anything, I think. Any object, that is. And it brings me my daily pay," she added with a laugh. "If not for the sound, I love it for that."
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Post by serehna on Dec 7, 2006 17:20:58 GMT -5
Serehna laughed a little laugh too. Then she said "Could you possibly play me a song?" She took out ten silver, "I might not have much but I really want to hear a full song." She felt if the girl said no she might get down on her hands and knees to beg!
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Post by matthias on Dec 7, 2006 17:31:14 GMT -5
Matthias just meditated and watched, silently.
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arianne
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Post by arianne on Dec 7, 2006 17:54:11 GMT -5
Arianne's eyes moved from the girl to Matthias, then back to the girl. "I'm sorry," she said, still smiling politely, "but I'm busy right now. I do play out in the streets every day, though, and if you would like to listen then, there isn't anyone to stop you."
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Post by serehna on Dec 7, 2006 17:59:43 GMT -5
Serehna sighed. "Mabey I'll see you again then." For the first time she actually noticed the man. wow she thought He's just been sitting here the whole time "My name is Serehna... I don't really live anywhere but you can often see me here. But I have to be going." I have to leave now if I want to get to Merinane in time
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