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[ostro_goth]

Singing a rough song from the future to the harp is surely a challenge; but not one that Teja would not be up to.

He has learned a new song, and is singing it by the lake-shore, while bringing forth notes from his harp that no harp was ever made for.

But these new songs sit well with his fierce old-fashioned soul. Metal is his element, and these song are filled with ringing metal and the raging anger of battle.


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[forgottenmotley]

The Fool is intrigued by the funny noise.

Okay, it's music.

But it's funny to him. He's not really much for music, but he's still curious.

So he scoots near by and sits to watch intently.

[ostro_goth]

Grimly and roughly, Teja sings of of 'an anvil of honour, a hammer of blood', and then, the song is over.

Then, he launches into another song, much quieter and entirely different.

He doesn't mind the listener.

[forgottenmotley]

He thinks he likes it.

They're very old songs in a way. Or at least sung in an old way. Nobody uses harps any more. At least not those style of harps. It reminds him of when the world was wilder and unknown.

[ostro_goth]

"Greetings," Teja says to his listener, when his song is finished.

He is still playing but no longer singing.

[forgottenmotley]

"Greetings yourself," he replies with a smile. "I haven't heard music like that in a long time."

[ostro_goth]

"It is new music, but played in an old way," Teja says. "I am Teja, son of Tagila; I was the last king of the Ostrogoth in Italy died on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in the year 552 of Christian reckoning. I have been playing the harp most of my life, and always sought to widen my repertory."

[forgottenmotley]

"It's the old way I meant. And considering when you died, it makes sense."

The way he introduces himself amuses the Fool. He seems a bit serious. "I, if we're doing introductions, am the Fool, sometimes known as Alexander. I have existed since men knew how to name their fears and am made of fire cast shadows and ash. I can not play an instrument if my life depended on it."

[ostro_goth]

"The Fool," Teja says. "An archetype? An anthropomorphic personification?"

[forgottenmotley]

"An archetype. But not an anthropomorphic personification. I'm just wearing the human body."

[ostro_goth]

"What are you, when you do not?"

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

Bonzo does not recognize the song...but he does know that it is not standard harp music. Standing back a bit, he listens as Teja carries out quite the performance on his harp.

It is impressive, that's for sure.

[ostro_goth]

Smoothly, Teja segues into the next song, which begins with a rousing tune for marching into battle before breaking out into the fierce noise and the battle song of the berserker again.

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

After the second (still impressive) song, Bonzo steps over to Teja and, as the piece comes to a conclusion, looks at the harp.

"How did you get your harp to do that?"

After all, don't harps usually sound...well, angelic or something? Even doing other types of music, you wouldn't expect it to sound like this.

[ostro_goth]

"I played upon it," Teja says. "That is how one gets a harp to do anything."

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but..." Beat. "I didn't think it could make sounds like that."

[ostro_goth]

"It is but a matter of hitting it right," Teja says.

[licensed-pro.livejournal.com]

"And can I ask what brought on the song change?"

[ostro_goth]

"I felt like something loud and fierce," Teja says. He looks up, but keeps playing.

The next song begins with a rousing march that does not, as yet, sound exactly metal.

[licensed-pro.livejournal.com]

Charles listens, and tucks his hands in his pockets; he's obviously not working, or even contemplating it in jeans and a loose shirt, at ease with...well, most of the world.

His world, at least.

"Can't say I'm a fan of music dealing with that much battle. But if it pleases you..."

[ostro_goth]

"It pleases me," Teja says, "indeed. But I know that battle does not please you; I could play something else?"

[licensed-pro.livejournal.com]

"You don't have to play for me. I'm just walking," he says, shaking his head. "But thank you anyway."

[ostro_goth]

"I would not drive you away with the roar of battle, turned into music," Teja says.

[licensed-pro.livejournal.com]

"I don't think it'd drive me away," he sighs, though his mouth turns up into an expression that only qualifies as a smile because it's not a frown.

"It's just not my favorite, that's all."

[ostro_goth]

Teja is just playing the march on his harp now, quietly. "I would not attack you with music," he says. "But I would ask a question, if I may?"

[licensed-pro.livejournal.com]

"Depends on what it is," he says, looking over. "Go ahead."