Wanna jam?
This is a strange world – betcha none of you could say her long & woeful errand would lead her to such a musical fellow.
Nothing too out of the ordinary though. Just another sylvan creature but with his own music, with some painless magic, sort of. She sits – a hearth is a friend's hand & the music only makes it better.
This is super unlike a song of sworcery & yet she can play the landscape all around, in melancholy or cheer or whatever. As his strings soften the glowing trees invite her to sing, to sing for the moods of the moon.
No surprise in this. She got the Megatome & the music was forever carved in her soul, like a damnation of the ancient stories, sounding for the sighs that will come.
What she loathes is that the rainbow colours ruin the sound. She groans to herself & plays on – tonight the moon is won by colours & she's not in the mood to wake another dangerous black ghost dude.
A mysterious concert in a fortnight – the moon will be hiding her face then. The Scythian must be ready & wishes she could have fun nonetheless.
The musical fellow is surprised not to see tears in her eyes, in spite of the rain & the lakes that have fallen on her life. In a fortnight, he reminds her, when the moon will sleep. And if you could see how his voice is shining in his hello, you'd say he'll always be playing for her & for her heroic martyrdom only. That's what you'd say. He plays on too.
As the notes go on he foresees what everyone knows. The Scythian brought back a scratch of magic in all the sylvan beings, so that they could be at peace in their woe.
So the musical fellow follows her with his eyes & watches her steps grow far in the brightest moon.
No difference in the future. He'll be alone with his notes & his notes will once again be sad. Also an empty stone place by the fire. All as it used to be.
Now that I know this section even exists (wonderful!) I am posting to this account all my Sworcery fanfiction, already found on Archive of Our Own and other personal accounts.
I payed an homage to Jim Guthrie and his cameo, with a little story set in the Bright Moon days.