Omake: Further thoughts on Sound, by a Mind.
The battle over, obligations fulfilled and time for more musings.
More time to study their chosen, overlooked phenomena.
Even if they still hadn't found information to confirm their earlier musings, this didn't mean they should stop thinking about the matter from different angles.
Perhaps a different perspective would be easier to reach out to.
This was easier said than done, and they almost moved on to simply focus on the parts they'd already figured out.
But they were a Mind Tree, and it felt wrong to not think more about things.
What they knew for facts were simple:
- Sound travels, either by bypassing air somehow or going through it.
- Sound takes energy to create.
- Sound doesn't displace air, just like light doesn't.
- It's one of the primary senses of most beings.
This didn't tell them why Sound is created when something happens, just that both nature and people can create it.
They had asked their animal fellows.
It was time to ask some of the villagers.
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Communicating with humans brought them many a confused glance, mostly.
Apparently, people don't really think about sound as its own thing to focus on.
Magically, Sensing magic and such would reach all senses if you just wanted to locate people, so specifically focusing on Sound was a bit of an odd fixation - or at least, that is how they understood the baffled gazes.
They felt that there was more to sound and Sound magic that could be brought from it.
They had almost given up on finding anything new regarding Sound, until one sentence was given.
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"It's actually a bit funny, but I was taught that sound carries further over calm waters than fields of grass."
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Sound... travels further over - or perhaps through - water..?
Does that mean that whatever sound is, it doesn't need air? Liquids work too - ?
... If air can spread sound.
If liquids can spread sound.
Can solid things do the same, if differing rates?
And if the answer to that is yes, then what is sound?
...
No, no. First, they should test what was taught.
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They requested the help of the dire bat. The creature flying to a source of water.
With the help of others, sounds are made. Both from away the water and over it. From different ranges, the bat hovering far above the water, then on the ground, head held close to the water.
Swiftly, they reached
confirmation.
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OOC: A bit smaller omake than the last, but it is working on the same issue as a follow-up.
