Summer
Winter wasn't the only season one had to worry about in this out-of-tune world. Summer was a blessing with Persephone's arrival, bringing fruit and wine and life back into the world, but with it came heat waves.
Orpheus hadn't experienced them firsthand, but Eurydice had told him of her travels, as did the bar patrons, weary from the road.
Some places that were once fertile were little more than desert, soil gradually turning to sand. It was said vultures had found new places to scavenge for food, and where they flew, humans were quick to change paths.
Even in more temperate climates you could go days or weeks without a proper rain, and heat storms were common. It was just another symptom, they said, of the world being out-of-tune.
But if anyone or anything could fix it, Orpheus thought, his song could. And so the boy dreamed and strummed his lyre, working on the song to make the world whole.