crystals | open

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FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Cedric
RECIPIENT: Y'all
NOTES: Crowdsourcing a job

How d'you make someone sing better?

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Hightown. Could maybe give him some - uh - advice from afar, though. Keep your chin up, remember the lyrics, all that. Did you sing? In Val Royeaux.

[untiltheyarent]

Only in the chorus. […of a cabaret, but that’s irrelevant. or is it]

Keep your chin down and your neck relaxed. Breathe from your stomach, not your chest. Posture is everything.

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That's perfect, [ enthusiastically, pen scratching: ] Didn't know we had a professional. Would you be open to talking with him? If we can't figure something out.

[untiltheyarent]

I would be glad to, Monsieur. So long as he doesn’t mind hearing it from an elf.

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[ there are a couple things he thinks, and doesn't say: that an advisor can be pitched a little like a servant. that out here, an orlesian accent covers a myriad of social sins.

(that if kamyrn is coming to riftwatch for help, he doesn't want the upper crust knowing anyway)

instead: ]

I'll feel it out. If he's got a problem, he can go on howling without us. Thank you, [ a beat: ] Name's Cedric.

[untiltheyarent]

[His caution speaks multitudes. Somewhere in the back of her mind, her hackles lower slightly.]

Fifi.

A pleasure to meet you, Cedric. You’re new to Riftwatch?

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Likewise. Been on a few weeks now - still getting used to all [ The rattle of a crystal on chain ] this. If you don't mind me asking, how's a singer end up out here?

[ the same as they end up anywhere, he guesses ]

[untiltheyarent]

A person who sings when the occasion calls, [she corrects,] not 'a singer'. Anything I know, I picked up from listening to friends' conversations.

[wryly,] ...though breath support is essential if you're going to be dancing at the same time, I suppose.

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Sounds harder than standing still for it. Think you're ahead of our Kamryn, there.