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[thefavorite]

[ Dewey is visibly a few years older than usual today. On most days, he's ten years old - but today, he's thirteen. That may not be much of a difference, speaking strictly mathematically, but at those ages it's definitely noticeable.

What he has done on this lovely winter day is bundle himself up, take his portable keyboard, and head to Xanadu with it. Year-round spring, regardless of weather? He still loves snowball fights, forts, and the like, but this is a nice break to have from the City's winters - far harsher than he's used to. When he gets there, he finds himself a bench, unbundles himself from his winter gear, and takes out his keyboard from its case (it's far less burdensome when he's this size). And then, he begins to play: ]

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[ ooc: Video is long, but you get the idea if you don't feel like sitting through it ♥ replies with older icons will come from betteratlife. As far as he knows, he arrived in the City at the same time he actually did but was older to begin with. ]

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[herooftheimperium]

[Cain soaks up the music with a strange sense of longing. Classical music is the closest thing the conventional world has to the music of his universe, and, the opportunity to hear it is something Cain is more than happy to capitalize on]

Well played, young man. [Cain offers in a rare moment of genuineness and he has a warm smile on his face as he beams towards the camera]
If you keep at it, with your skill, you could be a great master someday.

[betteratlife]

[ That gets a small smile out of Dewey. He's pretty confident in his skill, but it's always nice when someone else acknowledges it. He doesn't always get that back home. ]

Thanks. [ He shrugs. ] I should work on composing, but I just felt like playing today.

[herooftheimperium]

From the little I know of the craft, it seems the two often go hand-in-hand. I was once told: "To make music is to put your spirit on paper, and to play it is to bring that spirit to life". I think that the man who told me that was more right then he knew. [He grins]

[betteratlife]

That does sound about right. And, I mean, you have to play to understand how music is put together and all, why things work together or don't, how feeling is conveyed.

And sometimes it's just the kind of thing that you either get or you don't.