Just a quiet moment reading

[marriedanidiot]

Who: Nerdanel and whoever!
Where: Library & Garden
When: Various times between platform and next stop
What: Mama Elf is available for chats, hugs, and lullabies but technically she's working. She doesn't mind interruptions!
Warnings: n/a

Garden

As she so often is, Nerdanel can be found sitting in the garden, singing softly as she works on her sculptures. The first is now finished, standing no more than two hands tall, Maedhros looks up out of stone, almost as if he might speak at any moment. She works now on the second, but will not mind company.


Library

The library is new, and therefore interesting, and Nerdanel can be found at intervals browsing through the shelves curiously, flipping through books. Alternatively, she can also be found sketching - a bas relief is taking shape under her pencil - one of the train, by the looks of things. Feel free to interrupt her for a chat!

Comments

[marriedanidiot]

"Hm." Nerdanel smiles at him, and wonders. A parent will do much to protect their child, she knows.

"I am glad that you had his words, at least."

[10billionpercent]

"Yeah, I guess, but more importantly, he had Lillian sing a song." Senku explained. "She was a famous singer in our time, and she had actually taken a tour seat on the Soyuz. From the stories, kind of sounds like they got married and whatever, which makes sense because he seemed to really like her. He'd sent me some pictures of them together before they left for the ISS."

Senku came back from the tangent. "Anyway, Lillian's song was as good as any professional singer's would've been, but the villagers hadn't ever heard anything like that. When we tell them about the world before, they really have no idea. It's probably some psychology bullshit, but anyway, he told me to play it for them, which I did and now they definitely want to help restore humanity...so I guess it worked."

[marriedanidiot]

"Ah!" She smiles. "How sweet. And do not underestimate the power of a song. Although I suppose it does not hold quite the power in your world as it does in mine, even so, music holds great strength to move hearts."

[10billionpercent]

"I don't know what music does in your world, but I'll admit it was pretty powerful. It moved the villagers..it moved the people from my time too." Senku and Gen had used it to their advantage, to avoid bloodshed.

"I was never much of a music fan."

[marriedanidiot]

"Ah, in the hands of a trained bard, it might heal or destroy." She murmurs, thinking of her second son, named for his golden voice, who used to set the birds singing in the trees, and the stories that came back from Beleriand, of a voice that sang you to stillness, even as it's owner slit your throat.

"Raise a river, or bring the flowers to bloom..."

[10billionpercent]

"Some kind of magic, right?" Senku asked, looking like he was considering that. "We don't really have magic in our world, so I kind of find all these things really fascinating."

[marriedanidiot]

"I suppose it might seem that way." She shrugs. "We wouldn't say so! The world is made from music in the beginning, after all, so all we're doing is... recalling the Song of the world to what it was, once, and what it could be, again."

[10billionpercent]

"Is that right? That must be something unique to your world, since music doesn't work the same way in mine." Senku responded with a hum. "Our world was made through science." It wasn't nearly as fun or fantastical, but he liked it.

[marriedanidiot]

"It seems so!" She nods. "No one that I have spoke to has anything similar. But... we can still touch the Music of most of the worlds we visit so... I do not know."

[10billionpercent]

"That's really interesting, actually. I wonder if you could do that in my world, considering it definitely doesn't work like that." Senku hummed, looking interested.

[marriedanidiot]

"Who knows!" She tips her head consideringly. "We will not know unless we can visit each other's worlds, I suppose. But so far, the only times we have been unable to hear a world's music has been when something has been actively suppressing it."

[10billionpercent]

"That's true." Senku responded. "It seems unlikely that we'd ever find out the answer to that, but it's an interesting thought exercise."

He liked those.

[marriedanidiot]

"I hope we do." She smiles.

"I would like to visit the homes of my friends here, to meet their friends and kin."

[10billionpercent]

"There isn't much to see in my home, I don't think it would make a good field trip." Senku commented wryly.

[marriedanidiot]

"Well, not at the moment, perhaps!" She smiles at him.

"But you're working on saving all those people, no? I think that would be a fine thing to see."

[10billionpercent]

"That's true, I am, but we're not at the point where we're able to begin rousing people again, it gets incredibly complicated. We have to be able to sustain and feed them all, as they come back to life if you will." Senku mused.

"We can feed the group we have now, but it can still be a challenge, but now that we have agriculture started, hopefully it will get better."

[marriedanidiot]

"I'm sure it will." She nods. "You sound like you have it all planned out!"

[10billionpercent]

"Not completely, but I'm going to do my best." Senku smiled a little bit and shrugged. "But there's not much to see, just a lot of stone statues everywhere."

[marriedanidiot]

"I'm sure you'll do well." She says sincerely.

"You seem to have considered the issue very carefully."