Harp and Song (solo)

[Ginchoeri]

Second of Spring, 512 AV

Gin sits in front of her tent, not having a clue of what to do, decided to do the only thing she really knew how. She got out her harp and started to polish the wood, it was getting dirty from all the moving around in the camp. Of couse it would though, she took it with her everywhere. She smiled at herself as she continued to clean it. She bent over her instrument to prevent glare from the noon sun and so she can see what new niks had been accidentally made. After thurough inspection of the wonderful wooden harp that her father had made for her, she nodded in approval to herself, nothing of great significance had happened to it. She hugged the instrument to her heart and closed her eyes as memories of her past flooded into her mind.

[Ginchoeri]

Her father had been a tall man, though she didn't know exactly how tall. He had golden brown hair and golden eyes, and a lithe and lean body build. It made sense since he was a lion kelvic. His fingers were deft with his tools as she'd watch him put a harp together piece by piece. It always fascinated her how he'd almost make it like a puzzle, and each part fit perfectly with the other. She watched him as he carved intricate disigns on the wood and smiled asking him if they meant anything. He'd always reply with, "It is up to the player of the instrument to determine that my little foal." Gin would just smile up at her papa and get closer to see in greater detail her fathers handy work.

Even though she was really young she still had memories. Right now she was not but four years of age really. Though she looked like a teen. It amazed her how time flew. It wasn't long ago that he'd died along with her mother. The memory made her shiver. Letting her fingers flit across the strings of her harp she played different runs. She didn't bother tuning, she'd done it earlier that day and she hadn't really gone out anywhere to let it bump out of tune. Plus her ears told her she was right. If she tuned it would be out of pickyness and right now she just wanted to relax.

She sighed as she sat there, the memories of her father and mother making her lonely. She wished she could find someone for her. She was stuck, she felt, as if when her parents died she suddenly could not truely connect with anyone. She wanted this, frozenness to stop, to end, but she guessed it would not if she kept on sitting around like a bum at her tent, but she feared it in a way too. Getting close to someone. What if she did and then suddenly they died too. No she did not want that, that would be horrible for her.

She looked at the sky with her deep blue eyes and let her mind wander for a while. She let herself think about her mother and father and the people she had met over the course of her stay in Endrykas. The kind and the mean people, and those in between. She smiled as she remembered the fun times and laughed at herself when she remembered silly things she had done. She was, a little bit, emotional, and quick to gaurd her emotions when she felt it was needed, not that she was any good at it. She was a emotional wreck most of the time, or, just nervous as a horse with something under it's feet it does not like.

She layed down, the grass brushing against her body. She smiled and breathed it in, she brought herself back to the present and wondered about what she wanted to play and sing.

[Ginchoeri]

She decided that she wanted to sing a lullaby, one of the more simpler melodies which she could focus on intonation and pronounciation. She wanted to play for fun, but she needed to practice badly. She was plucking her lowest C which was below middle C, the string closest to her in a weird rythum. eighth note, quarter, eighth eighth, dotted quarter, repeated over and over, and then she alternated between her low C, middle C and her high C which was her highest string. Her base note, she switched up when she played each C, once accidentally playing a B or a D occasionally which made her focus more.

Once she was sure she had it down she let her fingers keep playing as she began to sing the melody that came to mind. Simple and sweet. Letting herself ease up on the rythum and do what she wished with it.

"Soaring forever,
knowing that this will end
just past this river.

Sweet child, rest your head
trust in me, and pretend,
just lay down in your bed.

Sleep the night away
hold me tight and know you're safe
and the nightmares wont stay.

Shifting breezes
tell you you aren't a waif
so smile if it pleases

you."

She smiled herself, it was a cute song. Short and sweet and gentle. She did not notice until she stopped that she had been swaying back and forth. She loved it, it reminded her yet again of her mothers sweet voice, lulling her to sleep.

[Ginchoeri]

Gin let her fingers play in different rythums. Her mind wandered, but not to far. If she let it get to far she would forget about her playing and had to resituate her fingers and focus on them only again. Gin's harp sang out beautifully, even though it was only a few notes being played.

Gin was thinking of what to play next, what song would sooth her soul at this moment in time, but, even her mothers song turned her off playing for no reason at all. She became worried. Would she stop playing forever? or was this just one of those moments when you just do not want to do anything.

Gin decided that she was leaning towards the second one. She could never completely give up on her Harp and Song. That would be like giving up on her Father and Mother. She reflected on what she had done. It was not much. But not everyday required a long practice. Sometimes you needed to take a break. This, Gin decided, was one of those times. So she put her harp away lovingly remembering the man who made it for her.

[Jackalope]

Gin

Award

Skill	XP Earned	Lore Earned
Singing	+1	Cleaning your Instrument
Music Instrument (Harp)	+1	Remembering the Past
Composition	+1	Keeping it Simple

Jackalope's Notes

Enjoyable little thread. If I can ask one thing, it's that you struggle a bit more with skills you have little to no points in. You did it with your harp playing, but these are your first points in singing and composition. I really enjoy that you're playing a character who makes music though. It's nice to see people writing songs. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your grade, please send me a PM and we can figure it out.