Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N: These stories are in no particular order; they simply come to me as they do. Also, I've written a continuation of "Stranger on the Promenade" called "Gargoyle and Phoenix", which will probably answer any questions about it.
Music
As a wedding gift, Sarina gave Julian and I a Trill piano. He thanked her kindly and never touched it. I played it every now and then. The children loved it. All of them would play with it, enjoying making noise for the sake of noise, seeing how this key made this sound, that key made that sound. They'd pretend they were famous musicians, writing they're next classic, sing whatever words came to mind . After a while, Ilanyal and Ben would leave it, go off to do something else. But Amie remained interested, tried to really learn how to play it and write songs.
Amsha has always been very interested in music. She'd hum to herself when she was bored, make up jingles. Once when Ben was having a fit when he was about two, and she was five, she started singing to him
"Why is Benny crying?
I don't know.
Maybe he's crying about fluken.
Fluken is singing."
To this day I have no idea how she made up the word "fluken", but we've never let her forget it.
So, I decided to teach her to play the piano. At first, I was worried, about opening up that part of myself, the musical part, but also the violent part, especially to my daughter. But, I hated the idea of denying her the opportunity.
She picked it up right away, and loved it. We started with classical Bajoran music, then Trill, then Terran. After that, she began to branch out on her own. Her favorite was always modern Bajoran music and she also loved the racket the Talarians called music, which I'll never understand.