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[It's evening on the 23rd when this goes up, starting with the camera view being shifted around a bit before whoever is holding it settles it overlooking a quiet part of Greatmoon Groves. The sun is casting gold and red across the scene, reflecting off the flame-colored hair of the young woman who steps in front of it holding a green violin in one hand and bow in the other.

She doesn't bother with an immediate introduction, instead putting the bow to the strings and giving it a few testing notes before starting a somewhat melancholy but high energy song. She plays through to the end and lets the last note linger before letting out a breath of obvious nerves and returns to her communicator to pick it back up.

It takes a moment for her to adjust properly, being too close at first but eventually pulling away so she can give a proper wave and awkward smile, freckled cheeks tinted pink.]

Ah, hello Lunatia. I'm Illyana Ackermann. I arrived here last month, and...

[A pause, attempting to funnel some of her nervous energy into staying something coherent and not rambly.]

And I've been hearing amazing new music since I got here, so I wanted to try and play something. That is, I should say, new to me. I'm mostly used to tavern bands and talent guilds, and most human music in the Kryta region is more what you'd expect drunken soldiers to loudly sing along with. There's also Charr metal...

[Don't ask.

Or do.

She pauses and tucks some errant hairs back behind her ear, looking off into the distance.]

I didn't do so well when I first arrived here. I was upset and foolishly took it out on myself. Drinking too much, hangovers well into the night. Thought I was better off under blankets in the dark than trying to make the best of an unusual situation. I'm sure I'm not the first one to do something like that, or the last.

[Off screen she's idly running a finger up and down one of the strings, making a soft but inadvertently haunting noise.]

I've made some friends here somehow in spite of my best efforts to become an unwashed undesirable hermit, so I'm going to swallow my pride and actually put myself out there. Playing was always more of a hobby for me and came second to anything else that was going on in my life, but there's no time like the present I suppose to become more serious about it. It's not like I have much else to do here. I'm curious about whoever else might be interested in music here, or even interested in lessons. I play a few other instruments, though violin is my strongest skill.

Sorry this was so long, but thank you for listening if you stayed this long.

[... how does one end these things?

Another wave?

... okay, she's just going to awkwardly shut it off.

She'll be in the park probably until dark if anyone wants to find her there continuing to play on the bench she sat at.]

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[spiria]

[ There's a familiar face, and she's applauding the small concert! ]

That was wonderful! You're very talented!

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[irondaddy]

( He'd seen the network post, of course, device pinging with the new entry from those he'd "followed", but he had already been in the Groves and could hear the first notes of another song drifting through the branches beginning to bud with new life, following their sound. It isn't hard to find that bright head of hair or the motions of a violinist plying at the strings, bow gliding gracefully back and forth as well-worn fingers control the notes.

Whenever she looks up next, she'll find she has an audience, standing in his usual parade rest with his hands clasped behind his back, blue eyes soft as he listens, smile waxing and waning as the song rises up in tempo to something jaunty and eases back to the more melancholy undertones. Then, as if replying to her post: )

Perfectly beautiful. ( Her or the song? Probably both. ) Unfortunately I'll be relegated to the theater seating; I don't play any instruments, myself.

( Not even a bit of piano. What sort of high society rich person is he? An awful one, that's what. )

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[have_hat_will_travel]

[The response opens up to Pidonus, holding a lute.]

It seems only fair to hear a bit of my work in turn.

[And then... She begins to play. Her work has a certain forlorn tone to it, as if its own purpose were missing.]

I adapted this from an old bardic standard of my world. I'm technically not sure how I knew it, meaning it was something I had practiced before I was who I am now.

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[iminthebook]

That is very beautiful music.

And as someone who has just arrived, ah, yes. I know this feeling.

[ he spreads his hands, confused still by everything really. ]

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[spellspeak]

While I don't play instruments I do SING. I've considered branching out but the need has never really arose given the type of performance I usually DO.

[And he doesn't think he would have trouble learning given the ease that he picks up most things with, but he's just focused on other things.]