Blue Fish Mingle!

[save_the_souls]

Who: Blue Fish Crew + Visitors!
Broadcast: If you'd like?!
Action: The Blue Fish!
When: Month of May!

[Get in here Blue Fish! It's time for a mingle post! Visitors are welcomed, but anyone who requires doors will need to know someone from the crew that can let you in thanks to the passcode on the door.]

Comments

[bythewaves]

It is reminiscent of some things I know, but not quite like either - rather, it seems to be a fusion of several different ideas.

[ He shrugs a little and offers shyly ]

Would you like to hear it?

[dancingmd]

[She nods eagerly. Don't have to ask her twice.]

Please!

I could not find a lyreguitar, but a harpguitar is close enough yes?

[bythewaves]

[ He smiles back and settles down with it, carefully picking out a simple melody, gentle and sweet and wistful ]

[dancingmd]

[Beverly rests her chin in her hands and listens intently as Maglor plays. It's lovely, and though he doesn't know it, perfect for her mood today, her thoughts occupied by Wesley and how much she misses him.]

Lovely. Thank you for that.

[bythewaves]

[ He smiles back at her, pleased ]

I am glad you enjoyed it. It seemed fitting that the one who purchased it for me would also be the first to hear it. Although I have promised a performance...

[dancingmd]

[She lights up.]

A performance? Wonderful! The fleet could use more things like that.

[bythewaves]

[ He blinks, startled at her enthusiasm ]

Oh? I... well I did not know if I should... make it public, or not.

[dancingmd]

I think it'd be wonderful! And if you didn't want to do it by yourself, perhaps you could find some other musicians to play with you.

[bythewaves]

Well...I could see if Finrod would like to play...it has been a long time since we could play together.

[dancingmd]

[How long, she wonders, how long has it been since Finrod's death for Maglor? Though he hasn't said it directly, his comments have been enough to tell her that he is in all liklihood from a point in time after Finrod died. She can only imagine how she would feel, if Jack or Felisa showed up here.

Still, let us not linger on the sadness. She gives him a soft smile.]

He sung for us once. Not as a performance exactly, but it was lovely nonetheless.

[bythewaves]

[ If asked, Maglor would only say "a very long time" - but he carries the wound close, blames himself for it, in part, and will not let it heal ]

Did he? [ Maglor smiles, pleased ] I am glad - he was one of my best students, and I loved playing with him, when he had his own mastery. Of all my cousins, he was certainly one of the best voices.

[dancingmd]

[She's chinhandsing so much right now.]

I would love to hear the two of you together.

[bythewaves]

Well, if he minds it not, I would not mind a performance...

[dancingmd]

[She claps her hands together.]

I'm sure he won't mind. He's very happy to have you here I think.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor laughs softly ]

No more than I am to see him, I think.

[dancingmd]

[Should she tell him she knows? It's hard to say.]

Being separated from family is always difficult. I'm glad you have found one another again.

[bythewaves]

True enough. [ He hums softly and smiles at her gratefully ]

Thank you. It is good to know that he has been well, here, even if tis not quite where I was expecting him to be.

[dancingmd]

Don't worry, we've been taking good care of each other. He... feels like family to me, at this point.

[bythewaves]

I am glad. [ Maglor hums softly, pleased and a little wistful.

We were not the best of families, were we? Curufin's ghost agrees ]

You will find few stauncher in their loyalty than Finrod Felagund.

[dancingmd]

[Her smile dims, ever so slightly.]

That I know well.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor's eyes shutter at the dimming of her smile and he draws a deep breath of understanding ]

... What has happened here to bring that knowledge to your eyes?

[dancingmd]

[She hesitates a moment before answering, her tone uncertain.]

There was... Atroma did something to our augments, claimed they were being calibrated and repaired. In the course of those supposed repairs, we were... exposed to one another's dreams and memories, against our will. I have seen into Finrod's mind, and he into mine.

[She stops there, waiting to gauge his reaction, to see what he knows.]

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor's eyes are clouded with pain and he nods, slowly ]

How much... did you learn of the days before he came here?

[dancingmd]

Not everything. He was aware, to some extent, of my presence with him. Even if we could not control my being there, I didn't ask to see anything he didn't want to show me.

[Another hesitation. This could be a really bad idea, if she's wrong about when Maglor came from, so she is going to make sure.]

You are from what Finrod would consider the future, aren't you?

[bythewaves]

That family always had great powers of the mind.

[ Maglor nods slowly ] I am - many years separate us.