Deer Country Network

[Slow pan of a large, brightly-lit room wall-to-wall full with musical instruments, somehow including every single one mentioned in the comments of Hotaru Tomoe's post plus many, many more.

Shen Yuan laughs awkwardly from behind the camera and says,]

So, good news for everyone who was sorry they couldn't play anything for Hotaru-mei the other day. I found this room in the Archives; and as far as I can tell it's just...instruments. No enchantments, no super-rare antiques, just instruments.

And I found this -- [Shen Yuan carries his omni over to a piano, on top of which is lying a plain but elegant guqin] so let's see if this body remembers how to play it, shall we?

[Brief shuffle while SY sits cross-legged on the floor, the guqin balanced on his knees and his omni propped up to record his hands on the strings. Shen Yuan shakes his fingers out and starts to play the opening notes of this song. After a few minutes he laughs -- quietly, so not to overwhelm the music -- and says]

I can already tell I won't be able to keep this up for long...I don't have any of the right calluses.

[He keeps playing, seemingly sinking into nostalgia as he says]

( What did he say? )

It's been a year
A full solar cycle...and the blood river is back
That means other things may come back too
The moving buildings the zealots
I dont know how many of us are still here that remember...but i think its important to share what we learned so everyone else can be safe

So much here tries to hurt you with your past even if you dont really need any help getting beat down by it
There may be ghosts or creatures that try to drag you down with them
But you can shake free of them if you have the help
So always ask for help OK?

We go forward whether we want to or not after all