Ethria 3: The Liberator by Holloway Aaron

Author:Holloway, Aaron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

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“So, you’re saying your people have no magical bardic tradition at all? That hard to believe. Even this backwater could produce at least one person of talent worthy of our notice. If barely.” Said the short, skinny, spindly dusky skinned man with an impressive mustache. He was one of the bardic masters, and clearly he had decided I was some kind of threat. Also that he really didn’t like Alara. The much taller Alara glared at him as the other masters listened to the conversation.

“That’s exactly what I’m saying. My people use music as an expressive art form. But we don’t really have a lot of magic. Mixing mental magic with something as common as good music would be, well? My people wouldn’t take to it very well. Like, burn every music lover’s house down for messing with their minds kinda not well.” That caused several snorts and looks of confusion. Even Zed tilted his head, though it was hard to tell if it was in confusion, or he was trying to hear what Ailsa was whispering in his ear. “Trust me, Americans freaked out when they realized energy drinks might give them bad dreams. They freaking burned down a guy’s house and everything. There is no way they’d be cool with someone controlling their thoughts and emotions using magic. Thats burning at the stake territory.” I looked at their expressions and hurriedly added, “Not that I share that view.”

The short, tanned skinned and mustachioed man opened his mouth to protest and possibly insult me again when Master Stagian stood up, interrupting the would-be tirade. “If he is lying, he is very good at it. Even if he were and we knew he was, we could not pull it from him without taking longer than we have. And using means that might cause . . .” Stagian looked at Tol’geth who loomed in the corner of the room scowling at everyone. “ . . . some disagreement.” Tol’geth grinned slightly, but quickly hid his desire for a fight behind a grunt of agreement. “What we would really like to know young player is how your people created such complexity without magic.”

“Uh, you mean the song itself?” I asked. Stagian inclined his head.

“Just so. I would consider even the first song you played among the equals of our standard play sets and hymnals. The second song you played was . . .” Stagian trailed off as if lost for the right word.

“A masterpiece in every way.” Alara said from where she stood near the back of the room near Tol’geth. Stagian inclined his head again towards her in a slight bow.

“Yes. Exactly.” All the eyes in the small room fell on me. Except for Zed, who was playing with some simple mana construct Ailsa had given him. The Fairy had been doing that more and more, handing the old mage mana puzzles for him to solve or to keep him entertained as time went on.

“Well, I already gave the scale and the basic musical theory of my homeland to the elves.

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