Ankyra Sound Time given

She seemed to stop and he paused too, a quick look of concern lighting across his face. Maybe it was wrong of him to ask a stranger to sing about their home. She didn't know him! He was so caught up in the song that he had almost forgotten, and Ashlar began to apologize, only to have it stop in his throat when she responded to his song.

He instantly smiled with relief. His tail began to wave again, but he still worried that she might feel like he was prying.

Sorry to ask, or be kind of a bother,
But it sounds really lovely
A place like no other.

A life of peace is something unique
It's hard to find
And even harder to keep.

He had less this time, thrown as he was by her reaction at first, and he fell a little quiet after that. He wished so much that he could show Avicus this, but he knew that no matter how much he wanted it, he couldn't force her to be what she wasn't. It had been a while since he'd considered what peace might feel like.

Your voice is beautiful, he finished finally, smiling at her again with absolute joy to have found a fellow bard. He dropped the singing for this, and he wanted it to land as the genuine compliment it was!