( There is in that moment, a shift, a quiet heaviness that slides into his playing. The music changes as the purpose does, and the call then, the one to send on, to cleanse, is one he knows Lan Zhan understands as well as he does. Better, even, for years more in the pursuit of its application.
There's a difference between the resentful energies which resist, which shriek, which sob, before this peace contrasting the chaos, the heartbreak, the horrors below. This is not a song for them: it is a song for the bodies trapped with some awareness, some memory. Some knowledge of who they were, and who they aren't, not anymore.
Those are the spirits, the souls, to send onward, to command beyond the grasp of greedy mouths and clawed hands, while Rikkitikkitaktu is distracted by his slow creeping hunger, patience worn to the burnt nubs of the destroyed ground underneath his unbreathing army.
Sing them home, to bodies left bereft of any spark, and to them, oh, to them, bring fire. Bring the flames. Bring the call to those with the means for it, the hearts for it, and let them burn. )
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( There is in that moment, a shift, a quiet heaviness that slides into his playing. The music changes as the purpose does, and the call then, the one to send on, to cleanse, is one he knows Lan Zhan understands as well as he does. Better, even, for years more in the pursuit of its application.
There's a difference between the resentful energies which resist, which shriek, which sob, before this peace contrasting the chaos, the heartbreak, the horrors below. This is not a song for them: it is a song for the bodies trapped with some awareness, some memory. Some knowledge of who they were, and who they aren't, not anymore.
Those are the spirits, the souls, to send onward, to command beyond the grasp of greedy mouths and clawed hands, while Rikkitikkitaktu is distracted by his slow creeping hunger, patience worn to the burnt nubs of the destroyed ground underneath his unbreathing army.
Sing them home, to bodies left bereft of any spark, and to them, oh, to them, bring fire. Bring the flames. Bring the call to those with the means for it, the hearts for it, and let them burn. )