Ruby City Mailbox/Inbox

[oathshackledbird]

You have found the Mailbox/Inbox of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, owner and teacher of the training school, Spiral. If you have business with him or the school, please feel free to leave a message and he will get back to you as soon as possible. Considering his abilities, that might be quicker than you think...

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[charilandry_npc]

They thought we were broken, and we were, but not in the way they wanted us to be. We were stronger than them.

[Chari shrugs, rubs her arm, and her attention drifts off to some point in the middle distance a few feet away from her companion. If she grasps the 'warning', it doesn't faze her. Threats rarely faze any of them.]

It isn't the kind of pain that you feel. It's.. hm. [Her fingers fidget together.] A dissonance.

[oathshackledbird]

A dissonance.

[Immediately, Diarmuid's thoughts drift to the use of that word in music. Notes not in tune with each other cause it and the difference can becomes very painful to the ear if allowed to build. It might not be exactly what she means, but it does help paint a much clearer picture in his head of how it feels to be them.

Is that why he and Temper never really got along? They resonate on different frequencies and trying to interact just causes too much dissonance?]

I have a great love of music, so I am thinking of it in musical terms, but I think I understand. As much as a person who isn't one of you can anyway.

[charilandry_npc]

[His thinking isn't too far wrong. When he speaks it, Chari tilts her head in consideration and then slowly nods, chewing slightly on her lower lip.]

When you play two chords that don't harmonise - is that what you're thinking of? It's unpleasant, and you know why, but you.. try to find the sense in it. There has to be beauty in it, even if it sounds ugly.

[Her lips purse, and she shakes her head.]

What do you think?

[oathshackledbird]

[What does he think? That is a good question. When two music notes are played that don't harmonize, most people's reaction is to fix it, not try to find beauty in it. But, that doesn't mean there isn't any beauty there to be found. It's just that no one has taken the time to look.]

I don't see why beauty couldn't be found there. It would probably take people changing their views and their ways of thinking, but just because it is different, doesn't mean it can't also be beautiful. Some people feel that things that are different are the most beautiful of all because of that difference.

[It just takes shifting one's point of view.]