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Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: July Planet!
When: The month of July!

[This is another planet mingle since the first one has nearly hit captcha! Feel free to continue threads or start brand new ones!]

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[mistyday]

The closer they get, the more she can feel it, the Song, as Maglor calls it, even if she can't hear it. The forest is filled with light and love and all sorts of good vibes, magnified by her connection to Maglor. She, too, gasps upon first sight of it.

"It's beautiful!"

[bythewaves]

"It is." He breathes and squeezes her hand, lifting his voice in answer, a joyful chorus of welcome once heard in the courts of the King when he was younger.

"Shall we go closer?"

[mistyday]

When he sings back, Misty stares up at him in wonder. He's beautiful too, in the way that the tree is - it's not a beauty she desires, just one she admires. That he is sharing this moment with her means a lot and her smile can't be contained.

"Oh yes! I think it wants us to!"

[bythewaves]

Maglor would only flush shyly at her if told - as far as he is concerned, he is quite plain, really, compared to many of his relatives.

"It does seem eager." He smiles back at her, earlier shadows all washed away by the simple aliveness of this place. "Come on - let us see if it has anything in particular to say."

[mistyday]

Too late, Maglor - you've already won her loyalty and she will always argue that you are the most beautiful elf. This time, she leads him, tugging him towards the tree and basking in its glow as she places a palm on the white bark. "What's it saying?"

[bythewaves]

He really really isn't! He will introuduce her to his relatives so she can see - his brother, for example...


Maglor shakes his head. "I cannot hear it that clearly, but - 'welcome', I think."

[mistyday]

She smiles. "Maybe we should sing back to it?"

[bythewaves]

He chuckles softly.

"It is certainly worth the attempt - would you like to go first?"

[mistyday]

Misty blushes. "Oh I don't know what I would sing. You better start!"

[bythewaves]

Maglor smiles back at her with a laugh in his eyes.

"Oh now, you have a lovely voice, Milady! Surely you would not deny this Great One your voice? But there, I will go first, if it please you."

[mistyday]

"Please. I'm sure the tree would love it as much as I do!"

[bythewaves]

Maglor chuckles softly and steps back long enough to sweep them both a bow before launching into one of the early hymns to the Trees. His own gifts paired with the tree bring the images bursting to life, almost visible in the air.

"Oh Laurelin, Oh Telperion!
Gold and silver bright!
Oh rain of blessings that from your blossoms falls
And makes our world so bright

Oh Telperion, Oh Laurelin!
By your light we see
The turning of the seasons here
Beside the crystal sea!"

[mistyday]

Oh. Misty can barely breathe as she listens and watches the images that he conjures. But when he launches into the second chorus, she takes his hand again and hums along with the tune, even if she doesn't know the words. Apparently the tree approves, as something shimmers into existence at the base of the trunk.

[bythewaves]

Maglor smiles as she takes his hand and spins her, teasingly, across the grass, but as the last notes fade he blinks at the shimmer.

"Did you see that?"

[mistyday]

Misty laughs as he spins her, so very very blissfully happy in this moment that she doesn't notice the shimmering. In fact, she keeps twirling for a moment longer than him before stumbling to a stop.

"See wha- Oh!" And there, nestled in the roots, is an old fashioned double cassette boom box and radio (though the latter will be essentially useless, no doubt). No question it's for Misty and she is immediately kneeling on the ground to examine it. "No shit! I haven't seen one of these in forever!"

[bythewaves]

Maglor smiles as he follows her over.

"What are they?"

He comes to kneel beside her in curiosity.

[mistyday]

"It's a boom box!" She beams up at him. "It plays music. Like this!"

Misty pushes the play button, filling the woods with the sound of seventies rock and Stevie Nicks' rich voice.

Her eyes shining, Misty exclaims, "Stevie! The tree gave me Stevie!"

[bythewaves]

"Ah!" Maglor blinks in surprise and listens. "This is the lady of whom you spoke, and whose song you taught me? An interesting background music - it has a particular quality I am not used to."

Wryly he adds. "I think the Tree has also perhaps chosen a song for you."

[mistyday]

Misty hums happily and nods. "Rhiannon! It's my favorite - Stevie once sang it just for me."

[bythewaves]

Maglor smiles at her joy.

"Perhaps the Tree agrees? It does perhaps look like a suggestion!"

[mistyday]

"It's got good taste then."

[bythewaves]

"Will you oblige it?" Maglor teases. "Since it has such good taste!"

[mistyday]

Misty blushes. "Oh, no, I can't sing it as well as Stevie."

[bythewaves]

Maglor laughs softly.

"That may or may not be true, but Stevie is not here, eh? Only you. And what makes a song beautiful is the heart behind it."

[mistyday]

"Well..." she shifts a little, looking down at the boom box, which has moved to the next song. Not like she doesn't know Rhiannon by heart or she hasn't sung with Maglor before. Somehow, though, this is different, this song is different. It's hers, and it's Stevie's, and it's one of the only good memories she has from home, so it makes her nervous that she might screw it up. After a moment, however, she pushes the pause button and stands again. "Okay. For you. And for the tree."

Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night and
Wouldn't you love to love her?
Takes to the sky like a bird in flight and
Who will be her lover?

All your life you've never seen
A woman taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?