My muse is capricious, at best. There is an idea for a song that I have been trying to write for the better part of a year now and she just isn’t having it. In fact, she’s ignored me completely of late until yesterday at Bardic Madness XXV. Right before a class about three song sets, the ONE class I had planned to attend, she descended. Because of course she did. Settling down to write instead, I soon realized that all she’d given me were three words: Heavy the Crown. Typical. Her favorite game is to see how little she can give me and still make me do stuff. At least the melody came easily.

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