Her meaning was presumably that she hoped Frafiel would continue singing "Sea of Prayer" to the end.
And this rose was the gift offered in exchange.
Faced with the little girl's flattering flower offering, Frafiel found it faintly amusing. Continuing was not impossible, but she would need Jon's approval.
After all, Jon was playing the accompaniment.
With that in mind, Frafiel turned to Jon, intending to ask what he thought.
Before Frafiel could speak, Jon gave a gentle nod. "I understand. Go on singing. Sunny will be learning this passage later anyway, so she can familiarize herself with it first."
A grateful smile appeared on Frafiel's face.
The next second, Jon began playing the melody for the second passage of "Sea of Prayer." In just a few seconds, it shifted from gentle breeze and drizzle to a raging storm.
For a singing beginner like Sunny, it was extremely difficult to enter the song's emotions so quickly. But for Frafiel, it was very simple.
Frafiel closed her eyes and pondered for two seconds. When she opened them again, her gaze abruptly changed. Its sharpness receded, its edges smoothed away, as though she had become another person—the fisherwoman once more, waiting bitterly by the shore for her husband's return.
As the music entered the vocal passage, her tragically beautiful voice instantly pulled everyone into another time and space.
At first, the Dream Plant Fairy had feared that Frafiel had not understood her meaning. But now, feeling Frafiel's full-force performance, her tightly clenched life core began thumping again—thump, thump, thump.
The second passage of "Sea of Prayer" was also named "Hearing the Tragic News." It told of how, after a night of hurricane winds and torrential rain, a fellow villager returning from sea told the fisherwoman, who had worried all day, that her