Chapter 23: The Song

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I closed my eyes and started to slowly stroke the bow across the two lines of the haegeum, making the instrument produce the sorrowful sound that rang out to the crowd. I played the notes that the kind woman had taught me when I was practicing playing the instrument while taking a break before. The sound of the haegeum sounded as if my broken soul was singing its pain, telling the crowd how I'd felt in the past.

I heard Sona playing her instrument from behind me, her instrument's soft sounds floating around her like a soft and warm breeze gently blowing around me.

Then, I started to sing the song slowly while pouring my soul into my voice.

The song that Ahri had sung to me whenever I'd woken up crying in the middle of the night by a nightmare.

The song that Ahri had sung to me a month after we decided to live together while staring up at the stars in the heavens.

It was a song with no rhymes, but it didn't need rhymes to make it a song that warmed people's hearts.

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There are many stories

About how the stars were created

But right now, I will tell you

One of the many stories

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Once upon a time

On the highest mountain in Runeterra

There was a kingdom of angels

Where no mortals dared to go

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In a house of a cruel noble

His daughter lived under his wrath

She had no friends to share a friendship

She was all alone in the world

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In a house of a cruel noble

A servant boy was badly treated

He always cried at night in his small room

With no one to tell him, 'it will be alright.'

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Then, I made my voice to sound hopeful, as if life was getting better. I started to stroke the bow more gently on the two strings of my instrument, and I heard Sona doing the same. She must've memorized this song when I was practicing two days ago because that was the only time when I saw her.

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One day, the girl learned to pity

The servant boy in her house

Whenever her father's wrath scathed him

She always comforted him with hope

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They became close friends

Their friendship strong and powerful enough

To even withstand every hardship

That came in their way

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Their bonds shall never be broken

Nor it shall die

Nobody can break

The connection between those two

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