Docking Plot: Dolios

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Dolios

Population: 57,000
Area: Total 21.1 sq mi
Time Zone: GST +4
Demonym: Dolioso

Main export: Tourism
Main attractions: Municipal Casino, Dolios Music Festival, Melantho Castle, Medon Resort
Climate: Mild and warm most of the year round; a short, rainy winter season.

Comments

[the_iceman]

Jack looked in Mycroft's direction, but it hadn't been him who called (he wouldn't). Possibly it was just someone calling out to someone else (it was a market place, there was a lot of shouting going about; all the more reason to keep quiet). "Please, I didn't mean to interrupt your trials. I didn't know you played." He did, of course.

[luckyjackaubrey]

"Not in some time," Jack replied, shaking his head in dissatisfaction. "Finding the proper instrument has been something of a trial," which was as far as Jack would go in expressing just how much of a trial that had been.

He raised, what in Jack's mind could only be called a device, again now that it had been adjusted, and with some trepidation attempted a bar or two once more. It complied this time, actually producing a sound that might have been called music to an untrained ear, but with every note Jack's face turned darker.

Abruptly he stopped and lowered it, handing it back to the man who owned the stall. "No, that will not do," was all that he would say.

He turned to Mycroft. "It seems that while stringed instruments are quite universal, the violin, and by God a decent violin, is a commodity of miracles. I do not know the name for that contraption, but it's maker did not know the delicacy of his craft."

[the_iceman]

Mycroft remembered Sherlock displaying similar dark faces when the sound was not to his liking, though he did not show the amusement it brought him.

"What composes music and what is experienced as pleasing can differ depending on culture," Mycroft said. Then, more hushed. "Though I agree that the traditional violin sounds better than this."

[luckyjackaubrey]

Jack nodded his agreement. The man might have sounded like Stephen if he'd taken any joy in the observation, but as much of Jack's experience with Mycroft, the statement had been simply dry and inoffensive.

"You may have the right of it, but even so it misses the mark."

[the_iceman]

"I defer to the ears of the expert," Mycroft said, with a curt nod. "My brother is the musical prodigy of the family. I never played."