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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pneumatik" data-source="post: 5388893" data-attributes="member: 21087">Papuvin stands up. "Please excuse me. I hope I've answered your questions sufficiently, but if not I'm afraid I have preparation I must do for the next rotation of singers. You're welcome to continue resting here." He leaves the cave."It's been tough for him lately," Tiljann says. "So many seela have just given up on the Song of Forms, it's been hard for Papuvin to keep at least three singing all the time. The seela who attacked me at the bridge had given up. They all want to stop the Song and let Indomitability go so they can die. They want to die. It's crazy. I hate being trapped here, too, but there must be a way out. Etinifi the Longwalker found a way out, and everyone knows his song. I just can't believe they've all given up on it."But you asked about the Song of Forms. Papuvin explained the general structure ..." Over the next several hours Tiljann teaches the group the Song of Forms. It must be sung in Sylvan, but she translates if anyone doesn't speak it. It's a complex yet flexible song. When she sings it you feel more comfortable with who you are and more certain of yourself. It's comforting encouragement in such a foreign environment. When she gets to the same verse that Papuvin mentioned - "So as we were born from the First Tree, so as from our homeland’s breast was cut a living blade, as this our lives are bound to thee, the forest’s heart in Timbre’s glade.” - she gets excited. "So Timbre is a dryad who lives in the oldest tree in the forest, and the blade that Anyariel used to pin Indomitability to the lake floor came from that tree. All the seela are bound to the forest, and the forest is bound to Timbre's tree. So I was thinking there must be some way to use the wooden sword, which I don't think is actually on fire despite being stuck in Indomitability because it's under water, to keep something left of the forest once Indomitability is free."That's as far as I got, though. Timbre probably knows more, but she's not talking to anyone. I think it's because she's on fire, and her tree's on fire, and her tree's forest is on fire. I tried to talk to her once. She's surrounded her tree with flames and flaming animals and won't let anyone get near her. I could still hear her screams of agony from behind the flames."</blockquote>

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