Ankyra Sound Time given

While it was perfectly normal for Chacal to communicate lyrically, it made her feel a bit nervous to be engaged in a conversation with someone else who was also singing. Would she come up with clever enough words? Usually, she didn’t bother with a rhyme scheme unless it just happened naturally…But now, it felt like she really ought to- especially when presented with a dashing stranger who also sung. 

His voice was so lovely; very pure and natural, and she might have found herself distracted by the smoothe timbre of his voice had he not also painted such beautiful imagery with his words. She realized quickly that he was practiced at this art, and felt her cheeks flush warm. Her heart thudded in her chest; it made her nervous to think she had standards to meet, now. 

When he asked her to tell him more about Sapphique, she knew thousands of things she could have said about her charming home. She had odes she could have composed on the spot about her family, and ballads about the way the ocean smelled in different seasons. But when she opened her mouth to speak, she simply stuttered for a moment and quickly stopped, shocked and embarrassed by the sudden fragmentation that interrupted their conversation. She tried to rein in her nerves a bit, and calm her fluttering heart. 

”S-Sapphique…S-sits on de cliffs of-Dragoncrest,
Where de stone cascades to de sand.
An’ de smell of salt an’ lavender
Perfumes our claimed land.” 

The words flowed more easily the less she thought about it. 

”I live dere wit’ my family, 
An’ de sea fills all our needs,
We comb de beach for treasures 
An’ we live a life of peace.”