Verse 08 -- Video

[poeticverses]

[The feed opens up on a bewildered Jehan. He has in his hands a set of panpipes]

While I was out in the city today, I came across these panpipes at the base of one of the arches in the city. No sooner did I pick it up then this--

[He's cut off by the pipes playing the first part of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. After a moment, it automatically quiets down so it's just a little background music as Jehan speaks]

--happened. As I returned home, it began to play Ave Maria when I began to hum it. I do not know how it knows these songs nor how it is possible for a set of pipes to play them, yet it does and it is. If these belong to you, I am in the Wood Sector if you wish to retrieve them.

[He hopes no one claims them. They're marvelous.

Lucky for him that no one will]

Comments

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[lecentre]

[Courfeyrac watches the feed in awe, eyes wide.]

Those are fantastic, Jehan!

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[poeticverses]

They are! They seem to play anything I ask of them, and will play quietly if I ask, as I'm certain you noticed. I cannot imagine ever being so careless as to lose them.

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[lecentre]

Perhaps their owner, whoever it may have been, was not nearly as appreciative of it. Which is unfortunate for them, but fortunate for yourself.

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[poeticverses]

How anyone could be unappreciative of these marvelous pipes is simply unfathomable. Music, whenever you wish it! Why would you ever discard such a thing?

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[lecentre]

Maybe they did not care for music? Though that would raise the question as to why they had it in the first place...

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[poeticverses]

Precisely my thoughts, to say nothing of the impossibility that someone in this universe does not like music.