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For Alyssa. List of Sounds: - soothing delta brain-wave pulses (inaudible & deep in the background, with many other sounds layered above) - delicate rain strewn like autumn leaves over the castle -- an exuberant, dancing dew that bursts into tiny sunlit jewels as it reaches earth, such that the towers, pavilions, arcades, balustrades, and courtyards glisten in the dawning sun, now hidden, now revealed through a veil of clouds - the quiet crackle of a fireplace, lit to warm the chill of early morning and burn away the clinging damp - wild songbirds (linnets, mockingbirds, robins, blackbirds, and other courtly troubadours) serenading the princess with particular sweetness, as if they know that their melodies are the first thing she hears as she awakens - peacocks given aristocratic freedom to wander the castle grounds, calling to each other (or perhaps, indeed, to the Royal Family themselves) with a haughty unrestraint - the drowsy, half-roused purring of the beloved royal pet, a ca
