A Jubilant Song, *pokes* Join meh topic!

[Melodic Truth]

Savergies lay sprawled beneath an ancient oak tree, the sheltering branches filtering the light through reluctantly. A beam of dusty light fell upon the gitar that lay beside Savergies in the soft springy grass beneath the tree, and the young harper plucked a single string lazily, his face in the grass. The note drifted through the air, lingering for a bit before it faded away. Inspired, the young man sat up and picked up the gitar, strumming a gentle melody. The melody turned minor, lending a melancholy feel to the tone before suddenly bursting into major once more. The sound was warm and appropriate for the sunny day, full of joy and wonder. He began humming the melody he'd created, the gitar now playing a lively harmony to accompany the tune. He wished he could come up with lyrics, but hardly was he ever creative with words, he seemed to be unable to find anything to fit. So he hummed nonsense syllables and played harmony, losing hmself happily in music.

[Silver]

<sup>I like music with words better...

Are you daft? Without words is better. Music shouldn't need words to express itself...

Music without words coming from a human is odd to me.

No one asked you!

No one was talking to you either...

You shut up!</sup>

Galiana sighed helplessly and ducked a bit, bracing herself against a tree with one hand for balance as her Sunshine swooped low over her head, attempting to knock the Bark from her shoulder. Rowan hissed angrily and flared his wings, vaulting skyward (with little care to release his grip) and he dove after Arias, the two screeching and shouting angrily at one another.

Wincing slightly, the Marigoldrider ducked behind the tree as if hoping to lose them, leaving them to wrestle on the ground as they were and doing her best to block out her voices while continuing to wander, Asheya taking up Rowan's place on her shoulder.

"What were they on about?" Gale asked, shifting a bit to release her hair from the runnertail she'd pulled it into. It was no masterpiece, and strands of hair fell into her face despite her attempts to keep them behind her ears, so she decided it was a waste of time. She'd long since forgone caring about appearances, and there was no one to see her slightly tousled hair as it framed her face.

^Music.

"Yes, but why?" She asked, pausing a moment in a pool of sunlight and tilting her head a bit, sighing quietly for the warmth that washed over her. Such a lovely day...

<sup>Who's Wherry Brained? WHO'S Wherry brained?!

YOU are Wherry brained, you dolt!</sup>

Another screech and a loud 'thump' from behind her indicated Rowan had tackled Arias into a tree. Wonderful...

^{They heard music.} Asheya explained, shifting her weight slightly as Galiana crouched and helped to untangle her two, ignoring the nicks and scratches they bestowed upon her hands in their frenzy to get back at each other.

She wasn't worried. She knew they wouldn't do any serious damage. They never did. Arias just refused to agree with anyone, ever, and so the others picked on him. Partially because he was the smallest, and partially because he was just obnoxious.

"Music here?" She asked, pausing a moment to listen...

She couldn't hear anything with her flitters yelling in her head like they were, and Asheya didn't speak again, merely ruffling her wings and settling more comfortably to her bonded one's shoulder.

"that's odd..." She murmured, walking forward again, uttering a small squeak of surprise when her foot caught on... something. She might have been able to right herself had Rowan, Arias and now Ravas, who'd joined the fray, all plowed into the back of her head in a great tangle of black, brown and orangish wings and claws and tails.

So she fell. Flat on her face in one of those comedic ways you see in cartoons. Except this really happened. And it hurt.

Right at Savergies' feet, whom she hadn't noticed. And still didn't notice as she coughed slightly and forced herself to her knees, attempting to disentangle her flitts from her hair, though they weren't staying still at all, which made her task all the more difficult...

"Rowan... stay still... oh Arias, will you shut UP?! Ravas, you're not helping, quit provoking him! Don't say things like that! Arias, that was uncalled for... will you stay STILL?! You're going to tear out all my hair." She pleaded, under her breath as much as she could manage, though there was a note of helplessness and despair in her voice.

[Melodic Truth]

Savergies' voice drifted off and he stared curiously about, hearing angry chittering from the tree he currently sat beneath. Craning his neck, he spotted flashes of color as flitters darted amongst the tree's branches. They appeared to be fighting, definitely fighting actually, due to the timbre of the squawks. Then he noticed the girl walking through the forest towards him, a Marigold flitter perched upon her shoulder. Hmm. He settled back down, strumming his gitar again, his honey brown eyes curiously flicking at the girl as she approached.

He stopped strumming again when she was closer, pondering if he should greet her or not, she appeared to be.... distracted? His lips parted, and he was about to say "Hello," when she suddenly tripped and fell..... directly in front of him. With lots of flitters.

"Oh my gosh are you alright?" Savergies peered at her in concern and set aside his gitar, grabbing Arias and lifting the struggling flitt out of the girl's hair. "Wow, you have a lot of these little buggers," he commented, setting Arias down and snagging Ravas, gently pulling the Coal flitter away without injuring Gale anymore. "I'm Savergies, by the way."

[Silver]

Thank Faranth for the help... Gale had been just about to surrender to her fate of having her hair torn out and just sit there pouting until her flitters had calmed the shard down. Arias was startled at being touched by an unfamiliar hand, but actually seemed frightened by the young man and so did not lash out at him. Rather, he froze in a sort of deer-in-the-headlights sort of way and uttered a submissive cheep.

Ravas snapped at the hand, but didn't actually bite it, flapping his wings furiously and lifting to settle upon a branch and brood, glaring down at Savergies, and Arias mumbling to himself in his head, it seemed.

Rowan calmed as Xanthe approached and took to staring at the Hydrangea in awe as he often did, giving Gale a chance to disentangle him and settle him in her lap, after which she shifted off her knees and sat on the ground with her legs splayed out in front of her, uttering a sigh of relief.

Asheya came to settle on her shoulder again and chirred softly, stroking the girl's scratched face with her soft head while Gale's dark eyes turned to the man. She looked quite a mess, with her hair standing up every which way and her face covered in scratches, her shirt covered in dirt and debris, and her knees scratched and bruised, but she still managed to grin at him brightly.

"Hello, it's nice to meet you Savergies. Thank you ever so much for your help... I really don't know what to do with them sometimes. They're usually well-trained, but Ravas likes to poke fun at Arias all the time, and then Arias's feathers get all ruffled... figuratively, mind you, being that he has no feathers... but they usually don't end up brawling like that unless Lusche is there, because he just eggs Arias on and then Arias gets even more ticked off... I actually don't know where Taranis and Lusche are." She admitted, glancing around nervously as if thinking her flitters might come rocketing out of the shadows somewhere and attack her.

Which they wouldn't, of course. Taranis was too peaceful and Lusche was too regal. But it looked like that's what she thought would happen.

She sighed again then and began to comb her fingers through her hair, her eyes finding his guitar and brightening a bit for the sight. "Are you a Harper? Oh! That must have been the music they heard!" She exclaimed, realizing that meant the man was partially the cause of her pain. But she didn't hold it against him. Her flitters would have found something else to argue about, likely with the same outcome.

[Melodic Truth]

Savergies blinked bemusedly at Gale, quickly releasing the Coal flitter as it riled up at him then flew off to perch. And glare. "How on PERN do you handle so many of them? I'd be half crazy by now. Actually, not even half crazy. I have a hard enough time dealing with two flits and a feline." He contemplated her with a grin and removed a stick from her hair, laughing a little.

"Certainly did a number on you, didn't they?" He noted the way she warily glanced around. "More troops coming to finish you off?" He laughed and grinned at her. "I don't believe I caught your name miss, but you're a rider, right?" He motioned to the knots on her tunic. He didn't quite know the rankings yet, but he was pretty sure she was a Marigold rider, from the color of the knot.

"And yes, I am a Harper! Also a candidate." Savergies smiled again and picked up the gitar, setting in his lap. "Your flitters heard the music? I can't understand what mine say for the life of me, I barely understand when they flash images at me, it's all so rapid!"

[Silver]

"Ohoho, half crazy? You have no idea..." She mumbled, continuing to rake her fingers through her hair, though she made an appoint to cross her eyes at him and wrinkle her nose. "I'm completely nuts. They wake me up in the odd hours of the night chattering and brawling and arguing about the silliest things." She sighed somewhat and shook her head helplessly. "I only ended up with so many because I was too... odd for other people, and would go wandering around when I was a kid. Asheya and Xanthe usually do a good job of keeping them all sane, and Rowan usually only gets riled up when Xanthe is insulted... I think he's got a bit of a crush on him." She added in an undertone. "Usually it's Ravas and Arias who get into it. Taranis and Lusche aren't around very often..." She mused.

Then realized he hadn't asked for her life story or a play-by-play of her daily routine...

She flushed slightly and lowered her head a bit so that her hair fell in front of it, still combing through it as best she could. That didn't last long, though, she had herself under control again soon enough and even managed to make it look like she'd just been eyeing the scratches on her knees.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" She exclaimed when she realized she'd done all that rambling without even offering a name for herself. "I'm Galiana. Gale, if you don't mind. Wreath is my Marigold." She explained, smiling somewhat at the thought of her dragon, though thinking nothing for the rank and hoping he wouldn't either.

"I started talking to them when I was younger... and eventually they just started talking back." She explained, disregarding the subject with a shrug and eyeing his guitar again. It was a lovely instrument...

"Are you a Journeyman, then? Oh dear, did I interrupt you?" She asked suddenly, her hand freezing halfway through her hair as she stared at him. All that time just sitting there rambling away and he might have been in the middle of something.

[Melodic Truth]

A quirked brow and a smile graced his handsome features as Savergie listened to Gale's ramble about flitters. He liked hearing people talk about their lives, it was quite interesting to see how different they were from himself. And he loved making new friends. Gale seemed like a very interesting person to get to know, might have to watch out for those darn flitters though..... Halfway through her little talk about flitters, the girl suddenly became self-conscious, her chatter ceasing as she flushed a bit.

Concerned, Savergies almost commented on this when she suddenly looked up again, smiling before introducing herself. The harper smiled. "Pleasure to meet you Galiana, or Gale. Aaaand Wreath, what a lovely name. She's the one they call 'Golden Rainbow', right? I've seen you around a bit then. Quite a lovely bonded you have." His honey brown eyes crinkled in a warm smile. He'd guessed the knots right, yay. Little things like that made him smile, it showed hee remembered things better than he thought.

"Oh, so you can Hear All Firelizards then? That's so cool! Unfortunately, I have no talents besides singing and playing gitar. ....and drums. I am a Journeyman Harper, prolly won't advance anymore since I'm a candidate now..... just waiting around for a clutch..... haven't impressed yet, heh. Apparently I'm really not that fascinating." He made a face but smiled again. "Interrupted? Oh Faranth no, no. I wasn't really doing anything, idly playing things.... you know how it goes." He laughed a bit to himself. "I'd much rather being talking to you! You're a very interesting person." Savergies liked making friends, making friends was always good!

[Silver]

"Yes, the Golden Rainbow..." She murmured, smiling lightly for the thought, and thanking him for the compliment.

Thinking of me again, Mine?

:No, actually, I was thinking of the other Golden Rainbow...:

Wreath snorted in her mind and she giggled slightly before returning her attention to Savergies. Just in time to hear him start speaking again. Yessss.... she was just that awesome She did have a tendency to keep thinking when people started talking, and then she would miss the whole first part of whatever they said, and then they would think that she hadn't been listening at all and stop talking to her. It was all very frustrating.

But she had caught him! Bwahaha....

"People say there's no such thing as a Hear All Firelizards, since they don't actually speak... they just talk with images and stuff, you know? But I hear them talking. Like, with voices." She added, just to clarify. Though all she really succeeded in doing was make herself seem even more insane.

She finally managed to mostly disentangle her hair and settled for pulling the rest back into a runnertail, unwilling to risk such a situation again. She didn't have bangs, but a few strands were annoyingly short. Too short to be pulled back with the rest, and just long enough that it seemed like they would stay behind her ears before they fell forward again, forcing her into a game of constantly tucking them back or tossing her head.

She scoffed slightly when he commented about having no talents... aside from those he mentioned. Which were a great many talents in her mind. "Oh boo, I can only sing and play the guitar and play the drums..." She murmured, smiling warmly and hoping he wouldn't take her sarcasm the wrong way. "That's quite a lot, sir. I just sing. And draw a little. And am a bit crazy." She added with a nod, still smiling.

"I'm glad you find me interesting, though! I think you're the first person who's said that..." She admitted. Which was rather sad. She'd been at the Weyr for several turns, after all... (yet had not aged at all XD) "Most people just get annoyed with me..." She admitted. She continued to smile, but her body voiced her insecurity by tucking one of her knees to her chest for her to hug. A simple enough gesture that most wouldn't notice for what it was.

Even she didn't notice.

But there you have it.

[Melodic Truth]

Smiling, Savergies leaned back against the tree and studied his companion. She had a slightly spaced look on for a moment, that look riders get when they're bespeaking their dragon. "Tell Wreath I say hi," he said with a grin. Savergies was a people person. So expressions were his thing! That, and feelings..... and body language! Yay!

"No such thing as a HAF? Ridiculous. Of course there are HAFs! Because flitters -can- talk..... I just can't understand them...." A sudden burst of cold air washed over him and two chattering flitters appeared, playfully chasinf each other. The Rose, Tempest, landed on Savergies shoulder and appraised Gale and her faire of firelizards. The Hosta, Solemnity, chose to investigate Gale, landing on the ground near her and sniffing at the girl curiously, poking at her with a pale green claw.

Hihi, what's this? New FRIIIIIIEND???

"Aaaaand here are my little horrors...." he crooned, picking up Tempest and coddling her. The flitter gave him a look that stated, No, just no. Of course, not being a HAF, he didn't really get it. Gale could though!

At her sarcasm, he scoffed. "Everyone sings, it's not really that much of a talent.... anyone can do it..... so I'm not really special. Just your everyday harper. But that's how I like it." He offered a smile. "Now drawing, DRAWING is a real good talent. I am terrible at sketchy. Dragons turn into strangely deformed canines. Or.... weird blobs." He made a face. "And being crazy, now that's talent right there." He grinned in a friendly manner and ran a hand through his hair.

Though he couldn't help but frown at her next words. "Bah, weyr people can be stuck up then.... I think you're a very interesting person. Dragonrider, HAF, queen of the faire of flitters....." The last phrase had a teasing tone to it and h poked her in the knee which she hugged to herself. He noted her posture was slightly self-conscious. "And you're not annoying," he assured her, friendly warm eyes smiling at her.

[Silver]

"Wreath says hello back." She informed him, and the Queen sighed slightly in her mind before informing her Rider that she was going to take a nap. It always amused Gale when people asked her to tell Wreath something... Wreath always automatically knew everything that was said to her, so it was really just a waste of air to add 'tell Wreath' before saying it... though she supposed it made sense to specify who they were talking to...

Maybe.

She blinked at his explanation of HAFs and then chuckled a bit when he'd finished, nodding her head. "You are very lucky, rest assured..." She murmured, patting Rowan fondly on the head as the Bark chirred at her. Asheya eyed the Hosta and Rose as they appeared, though not in a demeaning way. Just curiously. Ravas glared at him, though he was really just glaring at everything at this point, and Arias and Rowan both seemed rather curious towards the Hosta that approached Theirs. Xanthe had appeared at this point, too, and settled on the ground beside his bonded one.

"Hello, little one." The girl crooned in a sort of singsong voice. It wasn't demeaning, really, she even talked to her own flitters like that sometimes... as well as certain people. Just to be annoying. Her voice had a nice timbre to it. It certainly wasn't harper trained, but it had a breathy quality to it that was nice to hear. A voice that would be good for singing people to sleep.

She chuckled a bit at the Rose's reaction to her bonded one, sympathizing to an extent, though it really wasn't so bad. The creature had clearly never me Erianthe...

"Not everyone can sing, however. Living in a Harper hall, I suppose you might not have been exposed to tone deaf people..." She added, shaking her head slowly with her eyes wide to emphasize how horrible it was. And she returned his scoff when he commented on her artistic ability. "Bah. It doesn't do me any good. Aside from venting frustration by drawing dark pictures that make people think I'm depressed as well as insane, that is." She added, sticking out her tongue and wrinkling her nose a bit once more.

"Weyr people can be [i]very[/u] stuck up..." She agreed, dragging out the emphasized word to further prove her point, and she couldn't help but laugh for the compliments he'd given her. She hadn't been fishing, but she wasn't going to object to a catch. "Well thank you." She said once she'd finished with her random outburst. She eyed his gitar again a moment before lifting her eyes to his curiously. "Would you play something?"

[Melodic Truth]

Savergies smiled at Gale as she relayed Wreath's message and nodded slowly, wishing he had a bond like hers.... He'd been to, what, 2 hatchings now? Lucky people who Impress their first go around. But hey, third time's the charm, right? And back on the topic of HAFs.... She was laughing at him? Aw darn. He ducked his head sheepishly with a grin. "I have no idea what I'm talking about..... you're you're probably right about me being lucky," he agreed, laughing.

Tempest struggled out of his arms and flew over to join Solemnity, chirping curiously as her friend snuffled at Gale and her flitters. Greetings, smartlady. You can actually understand, unlike dimglow over here. The flitter flapped a wing in her Mine's direction.

He is rather dimwitted, isn't he....

TCH, like you have room to talk!

I am -not- dimwitted! I'm soooooooo smarter than you!

Again, the Rose huffed, seeming to roll her multi-faceted eyes. Again, Savergies was bemused and glanced at Gale questioningly.

".....Anyways! Singing. Uhm. Well..... everyone -can- sing..... doesn't mean that they -should- sing..... heh. Kidding, kidding! Though you sound like you'd have a lovely voice, from your flitter crooning tone." He grinned in amusement at her. "Aww come on, drawing is a form of expression. So is singing. So if drawing is useless, so is singing. And playing instruments, for that matter." Savergies contemplated this..... then nodded. "Yeah yeah, pretty much."

"And ignore the weyr peoplez, they're crazy if they don't like you. We're friends already, right?" He grinned, and at her question hefted his gitar. "Hmm.... jsut cause you asked! Lessee, what's something fun to play....?" He plucked a few strings, made up a few chords, then settled for a simple song titled "A Jubilant Song" (hence the topic titleeeeee haha. It's a song we were learning in choir today. xD)

"O! Listen to a jubilant song,
The joy of our spirit is uncaged,
My soul it darts like lightning!

Listen to a jubilant song,
For we sing to the joys of youth,
and the joy of a glad light-beaming day.

Listen to a jubilant song,
For we sing to the joy of life, and youth,
and the joy of a glad light-beaming day.

O! Our spirit sings a jubilant song
that is to life full of music,
a life full of concord, a life full of harmony.

We sing prophetic joys of lofty ideals.
We sing a universal love
awaking in the hearts of men.

O! to have life,
a poem of new joys, to shout!
To dance and exult, shout and leap.

O! to realize space and flying clouds,
the sun and moon,
O! to be rulers of life, O!
to be rulers of destiny, and of life.

O! Listen to a song, a jubilant song.
Listen to our song,
the joy of our spirit is uncaged.

We dance, exult,
we shout and leap.
O! Listen to our song. O!"

(Yay for choir music. Which took the most time to type. XD)

[Silver]

((Bwahaha, brilliant!))

She chuckled slightly then and nudged his shoulder when he hung his head. "It's all right. It's one of those things you think might be nice to be able to do... until you can do it and then you realize it sucks. Like....." She trailed off for a long while then, staring at him but not really seeing him as she tried to think of something.

She couldn't.

"I don't know what it's like, but it's like something. It's like being in a room full of people talking, only they're talking inside your head so you can't plug your ears..." She exhaled sharply to emphasize her mental struggle.

"That's not very nice..." She murmured to the two little ones, though she smiled a bit at the way they reacted to each other. They reminded her of much more mild versions of Rowan and Xanthe... or some odd combination of her fair, at least. She wasn't sure exactly which.

"I can't draw things to entertain people." She pointed out to him. "Singing is a form of entertainment as well as self expression. I can't draw when people are watching what I'm drawing, so a person would just have to sit there staring at me for candlemarks on end until I was finished. Their head would fall off." She explained with a nod, and then stuck out her tongue again. "I win."

"Yes, we are." She assured him with a grin and a nod, and she shifted into a more comfortable position while he strummed and began to sing. She did an odd thing when listening to music... something that gave a lot of people the impression that she wasn't enjoying it. She didn't tap her foot or nod along with the beat. She merely stared sightlessly at him while he played and sang, absorbing the music.... by the time he was near finishing, she'd picked up enough to cautiously harmonize, but she kept it to herself, wanting to hear how the song finished...

When he was done, she blinked slowly out of her daze and smiled at him again, nodding her head somewhat. "That was lovely... it suits today." She commented, indicating the sun and the warmth of the air. Her flitts had kept quiet as she'd asked them to, but as soon as the Harper was done, it seemed as if a great breath was being released from them, and they relaxed from some form of tension all in a harmonic chord that matched what he'd just been playing. Just the exhale. Then they were silent.

[Melodic Truth]

Savergies nudged her shoulder back playfully, losing the sheepish look quite quickly as he stretched his shoulders back from their slump, the muscles flexing under his tunic. His light brown eyes studied Gale furtively as she trailed off, her expression altering to one of concentration, as if recalling a certain memory. Inside one's head.... that didn't sound too pleasant, he thought to himself. Never being able to block out all the little things going on.... Definitely could drive one batty. Almost immediately, he could feel himself gaining respect for the young woman in front of him. He couldn't even begin to imagine what that would be like as a kid. She'd said she only had so many flitters because the other kids wouldn't play with her.... Harsh. Galiana was an admirable character in his mind, simply due to all the burdens she so gracefully bore. Well, maybe not gracefully..... ()

He pulled himself out of contemplation mode as she murmured something to his two flitters. "What's not nice?" Savergies asked, curiously looking from the Rose and Hosta to Gale. The flitters snickered to each other.

Yep yep, dummy human. He's lucky we can fend for ourselves, we'd probably STARVE if we depended on him for food....

He feeds us CONSTANTLY, it's why you're getting so fat. Solemnity pointed out, poking Tempest's rounded belly.

Uh-oh.

FLITTER FIGHTTTT!

With a screech of fury, the Rose launched herself at the Hosta, screaming insults and cursing his dimwittedness. The light green flitter squealed and betweened, the Rose following closely behind.

Savergies blinked. "....uhm. I don't think I want to know. They're probably tearing up my room back at the candidate barracks, torturing poor Winter Soot." He sighed. "I FEEL for that poor cat. What she has to put up with...." He shook his head and clicked his tongue, a wry grin spreading on his features.

"Anyhow, back to sane things! Well.... maybe drawing isn't necessarily entertainment to watch being created, but art lasts forever, something you can always appreciate. You can keep a picture on your wall, can't nail a note to the wall or capture it in a jar....

.....

I think I win now."

He childishly stuck out his tongue at her, waggling his brows comically to get a laugh out of his companion. At her assurance that they were indeed friends, he grinned wider. "Ah, now you have to put up with me torturing your ears with my constant humming and plucking of strings.... not to mention this face, such a sore thing to look upon!" He snorted gleefully, an old joke in his mind.

*musical interlude*

After finishing the song, he nervously fiddled with the strings of the gitar, tightening and loosening the frets as he waited for her to say what she thought. Finally her slightly blank face regained expression, a smile on her lovely features. He smiled brightly back at the praise, ducking his head slightly. "Yeah yeah, it does, doesn't it? I love that song, something to always perk the spirits, eh?"

[Silver]

She wagged her finger at him slightly with a grin, following the gesture by vocalizing 'ah, ah, ah....', a slightly coy expression on her face. "Now now.... I deal with hearing them, but I do not share their secrets. That wouldn't be fair." She informed him, nodding her head a bit and settling her hands into her lap.

She winced slightly when the two little ones got into a bit of a tiff and betweened, glancing up at Ravas to see if the Coal was going to start it again with Arias... but the flitter seemed calm enough, and Arias was actually sitting next to Rowan without the two of them bickering.... it was amazing, really, she was in awe.

"Art certainly doesn't last forever." She countered, tilting her head slightly before speaking again. "A piece of parchment or hide will fade or even rot away over time if it's not properly cared for. Even great tapestries have to constantly be built upon to keep them from withering away. Now, music... you certainly can't trap it, but it lives far longer than any image ever could, passed from voice to voice."

And she stuck out her tongue again. No way he could argue with that. She was just... right.

"And that definitely is a sore thing for me to look upon... but it's all right! I'll just fill my head with your flitters' voices when I get annoyed." She assured him, wrinkling her nose slightly in a comedic way. Asheya trilled softly from her shoulder before clambering down into her lap and settling there, closing her eyes and seeming as if she would drift off to sleep.

"I love how there's music to express anything..." She mused, tilting her head slightly again, though this time upwards so that she could stare into the canopy. "It can release moods... or bring them upon people."

[Melodic Truth]

"Aww, come on! I can't understand my babies, do you know what it's like when you can't communicate with the loves of your life???" His stricken dramatic expression held for about..... 3 seconds. One, the coy expression was too cute and two, he sucked at pretending to be a drama queen. King. .....person. "But seriously. Seriouslyyyyy. They chatter like that constantly..... and I don't understaaaaand. It's like being left out when people have inside jokes. It hurts, man." He stuck out his tongue again.

However, resuming the debate for art vs. music talent wise and entertainment wise, he found himself cornered. "Ah, well you see..... what I'm trying to say is.... Did I just get beat? Damn. Art passes down from hand.... to hand! Yeah! AND it's different through every person. Ha. More unique." He gave her a shifty eyed look. "I think we can say we're at an impasse. And don't you stick your tongue out at me, missy!"

Then thought about something a friends had once said to him. With a wicked look, he recited, "Don't stick out your tongue unless you intend upon using it. Heh. Heh heh." He giggled a bit more, then straightened up. "Don't mind me, I'm hyper for some strange reason.... I swear I'm usually more sane." Wrinkling his nose, his honey-brown eyes peered at his companion. "Then again, people tell me I'm the most fun when drunk." He laughed. "The singing would just get worse."

At the comment about the sore object to look upon, he gave her his stricken look again. "Burn! Drowned out with flitters to avoid the pain of me, how saddening. I mean, I knew I was a repulsive thing but Faranth, it's worse then I thought!" He grinned playfully. He watched her cute little flitter climb into her lap. "Yeah, they certainly are cuter than ugly old me..... Mmm?"

He reclined back against the tree, pulling his arms back to lace his fingers behind his head as a makeshift head rest. "Music is one of the greatest magics in all of Pern! Music is my life. It weaves its self into your very soul, pulling on your heart strings. It has the power to heal wounds of the heart, or rip it to pieces, to strengthen one's will, or break down barriers.... I always love it when you get a particular piece that when sung with a large choir of different voice parts, the harmonies just make your heart sing, it's.... it's just one of those feelings you can't describe." He smiled peacefully. "I can't imagine life without music."