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[oh_wowee]

There's a musician off in one corner, with two guitars - one acoustic, one electric, the latter of which was hooked up to a miniature, self powered amplifier provided by Bar. At the current juncture, the one in his possession was the acoustic - a black, shiny beast with silver frets and mother of pearl inlay. From it, Toki wrought the light,

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[ostro_goth]

Teja, seeing him, wonders how Toki means to play two guitars at once. Perhaps he would invite other men to play with him?

[oh_wowee]

There was always the notion of having a duet, of course. Toki hadn't decided to play both at once, just one shortly after the other. He looked up from the acoustic and smiled to Teja, giving a nod of hello, before motioning to a chair beside him, "You ever plays de electric guitar before, Teja?"

[ostro_goth]

Teja sits.

"Greetings, Toki," he says. "And no, I did not -- only a normal one, that I bought in New Orleans, with Yrael."

[oh_wowee]

Toki nodded then, deciding to switch out guitars, picking up the one he was more used to - the electric, and handed the acoustic to Teja. "Den you can plays de acoustical. I just gots a new album dat I wants to tries out playings through." He toed the CD out from under his seat - not Dethklok. It was another band altogether. "Dey's pretty good."

[ostro_goth]

"I will, gladly," Teja says. "How do we play the music from that, then?"

[oh_wowee]

Toki smiled, "I knows most of de songs on it, how to plays dem on keyboard an' guitars. Dere's one I thinks you might likes. But I gots to plays acoustical for it. Holds on, I gets another one, you can use dat one you already has." and with that, he bounced off to get another acoustic guitar. "I rarely likes playings grandspas guitars, but It don't sounds right in electric." He knew this, because no matter how much he tried, he couldn't wring the same sound from a modern instrument.

"Follows along with dis." He said, starting to play, which was easy enough, it was a simple song, and the floor beneath made for a good way to keep a beat by tapping his foot.

He played the intro twice, just for Teja to pick it up.

[ostro_goth]

Teja picked up easily enough -- he had listened to enough music from the future, by now, to follow along with the musical causality of what Toki was playing.

It was an oddly sweet piece of music, full of longing, one that made Teja think of his people, and the northern place they had gone, which he had seen only in visions and dreams.

[oh_wowee]

Toki played the next bit, singing along with it, his ties to it were less about the past and his people, but something he may yet become - an old man, longing for something he'd lost.

When they got to the chorus, Toki's brow furrowed as he sang,
This is for long forgotten light at the end of the world
Horizon crying, the tears we left behind long ago..."

He was able to pick out the notes that the bagpipe and violin played in the song proper with the guitar and still make them sound like they had purpose.

[ostro_goth]

Teja picked up the rhythm from Toki's tapping feet and added it, a light tap against the side of the guitar, to his own playing.

When the chorus comes along a second time, Teja sings it with Toki, his own deeper, dryer voice not rivalling, merely supporting.

[oh_wowee]

If there was ever a moment that Toki felt proud to know the king, it was this one. The man's vocals were enough for the Norwegian to nearly pause in his playing. Once the song trailed off as it did, Toki set the guitar down and gave Teja a rather confused look.

"If you lived as well as you sings, I has no worries for you in your death."

[ostro_goth]

Teja inclines his head. "Thank you," he simply says. "One would ever wish to live up to one's art, and the other way around. Are there more songs on that which we might attempt?"

[oh_wowee]

Toki liked that thought, then nodded, "Ja, gots a couple dat might works with jus' guitars." He picked up the album to look at the back and furrow his brow, "We coulds try an' play Sahara, is pretty easy, or Amaranth - but dat's is such a poppy soundings unbrutal song, I don't likes it real very much." He shrugged, setting the CD case aside to tap his chin, "I don't knows. You gots any songs you learns dat I could plays?" He seemed interested in what Teja had gleaned from the modern music.

[ostro_goth]

"There is one," Teja says, "that I have heard from among the varied CDs I have -- I do not know if it was among Yrael's gifts, or Asher's. It is something like a song about this very place. It has an old-time softness somewhat similar to that of your song."

He picks up his guitar, begins to play, and then, soon, to sing.

[oh_wowee]

Toki listened for a moment, but picked up easily enough with the rhythm, as he always did, listening to the lyrics as he followed along, smiling wide at Teja's vocal ability. That was just a delight.

The happy-go-lucky Toki was starting to show through again. He'd lost a good portion of that while back in Mordhaus, having to seriously buckle down. The song was just too lighthearted to him to let him be serious for very much longer.

[ostro_goth]

It was, truly, too cheerful for Teja, normally; but he liked it for the welcome cheer, the variety of people and events thrown together, that to him, somehow, embodied the welcoming spirit of this place which indeed would 'pass the cup of crimson wonder' to any that would accept it.

[oh_wowee]

Toki caught onto the likeness easily, something that surprised even him, "Wowee, dat song really is like Milliways. Pickle writes a song about it long times ago, but I don'ts knows how it goes. I only hears it once or twice." He shrugged, waving over a rat to order himself a nice cool ale and a sandwich.