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[zelda_hylia]

Who: Zelda and ~anyone~
Where: Nostalgia Nook (morning), walking around (early afternoon), library (afternoon-evening)
When: March 6th
Style: Either
Status: So open it might leak into other people's posts, sorry about that people.

[Zelos was out for the day, and Zelda had grown very used to his company in the week since Sola came back. Kind of disturbingly used to it, really. She decides to head out herself to do a little shopping and then go to the library. It seems like she has something on her mind, but when doesn't she?]

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[radiantwingedone]

[ Duke blinks as she stays still, following her eyes and remaining still as well.

Okay, so the birds decided he was giving them a ride, what?

With more of this staying still, some more birds come out of the trees to see what the great fun was.

Yes, that might be a handful deciding that Duke is a good perch too. ]

[zelda_hylia]

[Zelda holds a hand out, using just a touch of magic to summon some seeds for the birds. It doesn't seem like any spell in particular, it's more like she simply willed them into existence. The princess doesn't think that the birds will eat from her hand, so she walks over to Duke carefully and turns his hand over, placing the seeds in his palm.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ That was fascinating. Duke starts to lean for her magic-summoned seeds, to try to inspect them a little further when -

... hands. Oh, seed for him? Okay.

The birds are thrilled. What have you done, Zelda? ]

... Fairly sure some would be more than fine with the seed in your hands... [ But he's staying still as the birds eat.

Well. ]

She is nice. [ that is directed to a bird who had peeped at him while inspecting Zelda. ]

[zelda_hylia]

Do you think so?

[She keeps a little bit then, holding her cupped hands near Duke's. They'll probably be more comfortable if they can exit to his hands quickly, after all.]

Yes, I will not harm you. Not that I'm certain you can understand this...

[Her tone of voice is soothing, though.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ A few of the more adventurous ones hop from Duke, or the basket, to perch on Zelda's hands. Some of their cheeping has Duke looking faintly amused. ]

Should it taste different? It came from the same. [ Yes. He talks to small animals. Shush. ]

[zelda_hylia]

[The birds back in her garden were always fond of the Sun's Song, so Zelda hums it for them. Without a magical instrument it just calls forth a little warmth. It's a trilling little tune, not unlike a bird call.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Sorry, Duke just got fascinated all over again - that was a bit -

Very very interesting. Is it just a sound?

... He may have attempted it, but his voice clearly doesn't have the range necessary for it, even down in whatever octave his fits.

Yes, those birds are laughing at his attempt of the humming-song. ]

[zelda_hylia]

[Zelda's amused as well. She sings it for him again, this time with her mouth opened. A tiny beam of light breaks through the trees, but nothing more.]

This is the Sun's Song.

[radiantwingedone]

.... Light aligned, but of a more passive nature than any I have seen aside from things designed just for lighting areas.... [ Trying again and-

Yeah, the problem is his range of humming. He can imitate the pattern of the notes, and even partially the jumps, but when he starts getting a bit high...

Excuse him while he stops trying to make the mimicked sound and gives a short cough into his shoulder. ]

[zelda_hylia]

It is more powerful if you use a magical instrument. It can freeze the undead in their tracks.

[Is he embarrassed? That's kind of...]

If you play an instrument, I would be happy to teach it to you. Hyrule has many magical songs.

[radiantwingedone]

[ A bit embarrassed, and a bit of 'his throat didn't approve of trying to reach sounds that are hard for him'. ]

undead is a term unfamiliar; assuming it means dead that are somehow not so, but on in the same way as ghosts. [ Yes. Terca Lumireis has no zombies. Just ghosts and mermen.

Actually now that he thinks of it... ]

Do they seem to be as they had in life? Intelligence, color to skin, heat to flesh? [ Because.. if so.. then he knows undead. . . .

Instruments? ]

.... Learned piano as a child, however... [ As he is most obviously not one, and by his own admission living in the middle of the woods... ]

It was not something that was considered a good use of time, for one learning to be a knight. Little time, after; busy. [ But he's definitely interested. Magical music... ]

[zelda_hylia]

Undead are risen bodies or ghosts, yes. The corpses generally lack intelligence, but the ghosts retain some or all of the mental processes they had in life.

[Zelda ushers the birds back towards Duke, giving him the rest of the seed.]

You should take up a more mobile instrument.

[And suddenly there's her harp. Where she pulled it from, who knows? She plays the song once more. This time, the shaft of light is much stronger and has a holy sort of feel coming from it.]

[radiantwingedone]

Different, then. [ He's not going to explain further. Different from the dead-men he knew. ]

...? [ Hello birds, yes, he's curious too.

Ah, hammerspace. The harp gets a single blink for its sudden appearance, more interest in its physical one - string instru-

Oh, now that is fascinating ]

...... [ This is his look of "why didn't I think of that before I harassed my throat" -

It's a very close mimic to the harp's notes, but he's whistling it. That works much better than humming. No range problems here. ]

[zelda_hylia]

[Unless he's putting his mana (or aer, or whatever his magic is exactly) into it, it doesn't seem to have much of an effect - though there is the feeling that it should.]

You have to understand the feeling of the song. This one... its meaning is "daybreak". Relief, hope, new beginnings.

[radiantwingedone]

[ He hadn't tried that yet, although when she mentions having to understand the "feeling" of the song...

He doesn't try again. It would require something he barely understands, by Zelda's words. He's not particularly one for "hope". . . ]

Ah. [ The birds are almost done with the seed in his hands, so he crouches and lets the remainder spread across the ground. ]

Keep finding all kinds of distractions, it seems.

[zelda_hylia]

I am sorry. I haven't met another mage here willing to trade ideas, I've been thinking of what I might do if I did.

[What she might do is learn all the things, as well as teach whatever she knows in return.]

I suppose if we keep talking we might end up staying here all day, though! Let's continue.

[She starts for the edge of the forest, a little embarrassed that she keeps getting so sidetracked.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Topic is successfully changed. ]

No trouble. [ He's just as interested. And before birds decide to distract them again, he politely shoos the ones on the basket off before taking it in hand again. ]

Likely. [ Like when you get absorbed by a book, is the comparison Duke would make, but he's not voicing anything more.

And because he's weird, and doesn't believe in saying goodbye, Zelda may turn to find her silent walking companion.... not walking along with her. He's gone off home now. ]

[zelda_hylia]

[It's a minute or two before she notices that Duke has left. She pauses and glances around. Did he teleport? It's hard to say. Zelda continues on home.]