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 Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:17 pm
Thina gave him one last squeeze and then put her arms around him as she grabbed the lyre. One hand held the instrument while the other plucked the strings.
After an introduction to the melody, Thina began to sing. Her voice was low but not harsh to listen to. She was going to say it, but she wished she had someone to play a drum or bagpipes to do the back-sound.
The song she sang was one about Demeter. It had four parts. The first was praise for summer, the time when Demeter was with her daughter Persephone before the kidnapping. It was joyful and high, with a sense of merriment. The second part sounded like autumn, and was the time when the goddess searched in vain for her daughter. The melody became more subdued but there was still a bit of hope. Then came winter, and the despair in the song reflects Demeter's loss of her daughter to Hades and her refusal to continue her duties until her demands were met. Spring followed, and this was the time that the other relented to the goddess. It was full of hope, that her daughter would be returned. Finally, the song went back to summer. While the melody and words were much the same, there was a change in it. Persephone returned but she was different, and Demeter knew that come autumn/winter, her daughter would have to return to the underworld.
It was a song her grandmother sang to her many times when she was a child, and one that was particularly special to her. Thina had always hoped that one day she would have been able to sing it to her own daughter, and later maybe a granddaughter.
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:25 pm
Cody listened and absorved the lyrics like a sponge. He couldn't understand what it say, but he liked the rythm and the gentle sound the lyre produced, accompanied by the mature, experienced voice
His tail swayed gently to the tune, but because of the gentleness and the warm weather he was getting sleepy. By the end of it he was snoozing by Thina's feet
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:41 pm
Thina let the song slowly trail off, both words and music. She hadn't intended to put Cody to sleep, but it appeared that was exactly what she managed to do.
Holding her lyre with one hand, Thina leaned forward and smoothed aside a lock of the boy's hair. She let out one wistful sigh, oh how she would have loved to have a son of her own.
As the woman tried to get up, her body resisted by cracking and arguing how stiff it was. Thina groaned discontently, but tried to be quiet so as not to wake up Cody. She didn't want to just, leave... so she walked away and picked a wildflower. Coming back, she carefully put it in his hand and then closed her own over it so he would hopefully clasp the small plant in his sleep.
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:48 pm
Cody didn't stirr as Thina got up and moved away. The flower she later put in his fingers laid there loosely
The sweet music induced him into a peaceful sleep. It had been so long since he last heard any tunes that this had a particularly claming effect over him. He really needed it
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