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Willow "My Life Is A Disaster" Amarina ([personal profile] runicfeathers) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2021-01-19 09:01 pm

[CLOSED] Drown your sorrows in music

Who: Willow & Lan Xichen, Willow & Lan Sizhui
Where: Music Car, Standard car
When: Jelly 1, after platform departure
What: Music duets to ease sorrows of friends leaving, Willow comforting Sizhui
Warnings: none, but TBA if any



For Sizhui, Standard Car

Sometime after obtaining her bow and placing it in her room, distrustful of leaving it in the armoury, Willow finds herself wandering aimlessly in the halls without much thought to where she's going. Both Webmind and Nerdanel have left, affecting her more than she likes to admit.

But then she finds herself in the Standard Car, noticing one person in particular not seeming like himself, Sizhui, a boy she's come to care for in a familial way.

"Sizhui! Are you alright? Did someone you know depart as well?"

For Xichen, Music Car

If there's one thing Willow has found to ease her troubled mind after the troubles she's faced not only from home but on the train as well, it's been music, and to her relief there's been this music car to help in such things. As well as an instrument she's familiar with.

She's found exactly in that car, playing a tune that some of Lythrana's people had taught her, even if it makes her sad, it's still relaxing and calms most nerves. Although she doesn't realise she's not the only one there midway through, and stops with some embarrassment.

"Ah-- My apologies, I did not know I was not alone! Forgive me if I disturbed you!" She's a bit embarrassed, only usually playing while she's alone.


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[personal profile] lanxichen 2021-01-25 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Xichen nods, expression softening a notch, though still sad.

"Please, continue. I will join shortly." He doesn't have centuries of experience with music, but he has almost four decades, melodies being his heritage and his cultivation both. And while one of the songs he taught, one he poured so much love and hope into, was twisted...

Music is easier to return to than sword work, after all.

For a little bit, the sounds of the xiao join her flute, before they variate, bringing a counterpoint that makes it somehow richer... and sadder.