Closed [Sundial Circle] Music in the Park (Quiarinox)

[Vaas]

Time Stamp: 12th of Spring, 513AV Location: Sundial Circle Who: Quiarinox Feeling the warm of Syna light on his bare chest, Vaas was told by other citizens of the city that the Sundial Circle was a popular place for rest and relaxation for the people of Lhavit. Walking down the street humming a tune, he decided the park was the best place to practice his new trade as a street performer. He wasn't going to loud and obnoxious like some of the street performers in the city. Since he was going to park where people relax, he would try to blend his music with the atmosphere of the park. He was trying to make a name for himself in the city, so he will bring the audience music they would enjoy. He tapped used his staff to guide himself through the crowd, and suddenly, he heard a woman voice, “Sir please watch your step. Your staff almost knocked over my plants.” Vaas stopped, looked down towards the voice, and apologized to her with a smile, “Sorry, sometimes my staff as a mind of it own. I am musician can your direct me to good place to perform?” The woman looked up at the Inarta, and her eyes widen when she noticed he was blind, “Oh..umm.. if you walk to the edge of the circle, you should be out of the way of pedestrian traffic, and you will find nice wall to lean up against or sit down.” Vaas looked to towards the woman's voice and said to her with a wide smile, “Thank you for your help, and I hope you enjoy my music while you work.” Vaas turned and walked to the edge of the cobble stone circle until his staff hit a wall. He smiled to himself, and he took his backpack off and set it by the wall. He knelt down, felt the edge of the wall, and he sat down on the flat surface. He leaned over, untied the top of his backpack, and fished out his flute case. Once he had the case, he took out his silver flute and a small rag and started to clean out the inside of flute. He could hear the people walk by him, and he smiled to himself at the many different conversation people were having. Being blind heightened Vaas' sensitivity to hearing, so he could pick up sounds easier than people who can see. When he finished cleaning his flute, he brought the metal flute up to his lips and started to warm up the metal. He went down the line of holes blowing single notes, and when he was finished practicing his notes. He played a series of incoherent series of notes, and he knew he was playing noise, but he needed to warm up the metal otherwise. He wouldn't get the correct sound he wanted when he actually started to play. When he was ready, Vaas stood up from the wall and brought his flute up to his lips. On the way to Lhavit, Vaas had plenty of time to practice more complex and mature songs from his homeland, and since Vaas had been in a melancholy mood ever since he left his homeland. His songs seemed to reflex his mood, and the memories of the woman he left behind in the city of Wind Reach. The Inarta song he decided to play was called, “Wind Beneath Their Wings”. The song is mostly about the young people of Wind Reach, and their drive and desire to become part of the top tier of Inarta society the Endal. Vaas had mix feelings about the caste system, and how it systematically made a slave caste of the lowest and largest part of society while the smallest caste the Endal lords over everyone. Vaas' considered them the lawless caste because they made the laws and no laws that affect the lower castes apply to them. It was a unfair system, but the Inarta are a stubborn people, and they don't take change well, so the system stayed in place for five hundred years. It was the reason Vaas left Wind Reach because he knew if he lost the ability to play his music. He would instantly put into the caste of Dek because of his blindness. However, he noticed in Lhavit there wasn't a unmovable caste system and the people seemed to be able to live freely to pursue their desire in relative peace. He understood that in all societies had a hierarchy, but in Lhavit, he didn't had to fear for his life if he said anything wrong around people. Vaas started playing his music, and he would normally play the song loud in Wind Reach, but Vaas decided to play the song at a slower rhythm and hoping the song would take a more melancholy tone to it. He wasn't trying to depress people, but he believed music should evoke an emotion in the heart of the listener. However, the music was meant to reflex the yearning to hear the voice of woman he loved. He loved and respected her dream, but he knew deep down in his heart that he wouldn't be able to share the dream with her. She wanted to sore among the clouds on top of a legendary wind eagle while Vaas' dream was to travel the world learning the music of different people of Mizahar and bring it back to Wind Reach to teach the Yasi different music from other lands. He wondered to himself if she thought he abandoned her, but he never really abandoned her. He was just going to be gone from their homeland for awhile, and he sure she would find some one else to make her smile while he was gone. He finished the song with a small smile on his lips, and he decided his next song would be much more up beat and happy. Since it was a spring day, and he doesn't want to depress his audience on a day like this one.