2022 P: Playlist for Fire and Amulet

 

 

I admit I don't always listen to music when writing. Jotting notes in a doctor's office while waiting for your appointment or typing on a tablet in the wee hours of the morning isn't conducive to playing tunes. But that doesn't mean that music is not part of my writing life. Although each book tends to have its own playlist, certain songs trigger a mood or emotion so that the tunes transfer from book to book

 

For Fire and Amulet, an old standby, Celtic music where the lilting voices, flute and harp send my mind to a fantasy world where magic rules and dragon fly. On the player now is "Celtic Twilight" by Gabrielle Angelique.

Music for a quest, hopelessness, and loneliness is conveyed by the haunting piano solo played at the end of each episode of The Incredible Hulk.

"Twelve O'Clock High" -- a little haunting, a little thunder, the theme from the television series of the same name brings with it a vision of flight. Not of the B-17 bombers of World War II, but of a rust-colored dragon soaring in the clouds.

At first I thought only one song fit the bill for the following excerpt, Roger Whitaker's "The Last Farewell." Then I heard a few chords of "Unchained Melody" and that also resonated. Surviving a tornado was just the beginning. Deneas survives unhurt, but Trelleir suffers several broken bones. He cannot travel and Deneas cannot stay.

Deneas picked up her pack and straightened her weapons. “If I don’t return within two sevenday, I want you to go back. To your cave, to Leri and her kin, or to Geren in Nawddmir. Just don’t stay here once you can travel.”

Maybe eventually.” Trelleir waved a hand at the far mountains. “I’d like to see what’s beyond them.” At the obstinate expression on Deneas’ face, he added. “If you can’t return straight away, head for the cave marked by the split rock your mother wrote about in her diary. We can meet up there.”

Heartbeat after heartbeat, he waited for her to answer. In his own mind, he had decided to follow her wherever she went.

Except for the emotions crossing her face, Deneas stood silent. Her gaze fell to the ground, and she gave a heavy sigh full of sorrow, resignation, and ... desire?

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