#kunabee

It has actual music. (I wrote the lyrics months ago, but just now created a melody for it tonight.)

Yune says it's a mikran children's round bout a mythical bird that shines brighter than the stars and sings when it's happy. Seeing and hearing the kunabee's song will bring you good luck.

He's mostly right about the meaning.

IN REALITY.......

it was created over a thousand years ago by the altaran-humans and adopted by the mik. The masakans later adopted it. It's now a very well known round akin to 'Row Row Row Your Boat." The altarans pushed for this so the song - part of their culture - wouldn't be forgotten like they were.

KUNABEE. A silly name for a beautiful creature of myth. A kunabee is an invisible (to all but those who can see the Source Field), diaphanous, large stellar-avian bearing a slight resemblance to a manta ray with a long glowing tail as though on fire, resembling the trail of a shooting star. A kunabee's coloquial name is "living star," or "starburn." It's made of blue light (source energy) exuding from a semi-transparent body with the viscosity of jelly, and moves with a graceful fluidity. It has small eyes, but can only see through the Field. It's song resembles the floating music of whale song. It can only be heard in an atmosphere, under water, or in space - and only by someone who's living source is in tune with the Field.

Kunabee exist in the blueshift frequency - the wavelength upon which the Source Field (the life of the galaxy), Will and Terra's power, and the living source of altaran-humans lives; their energy, or souls.

Kunabee are ancient - possibly immortal (they came about when the galaxy was formed, so it's like a living part of the Source Field itself - the life of the galaxy). They love to have fun. They're rare, but can be spotted anywhere from the atmosphere, to open space, to beneath the oceans, to the upper atmospheres of gas giants, and hyperspace.

Usually someone will only see one, but they live in flocks. Encountering a flock is rare. Again, only someone who can use their source can see them. Thus, to 98% of the galaxy, they're a myth.

THE SONG.... The kunabee is considered the freest, most carefree, joyful entity in the galaxy, and thus envied by the altarans. Seeing one or hearing one gives you an instant feeling of euphoria. Kunabee are associated with everything good about the galaxy. Nothing holds a kunabee down. It is the epitome of unbridled freedom.

The song "Kunabee" has a happy-go-lucky, bouncy, interweaving melody mimicking the being itself.

The song is akin to songs sung by enslaved people containing secret code messages, meanings, and desires within the lyrics only they would understand. ((I've been a singer all my life. When I learned of this historical fact in grade school when we performed "Pick a Bail 'a Cotton" (I was about 12), the concept fascinated me. I found them inventive, but the stories behind them broke my heart.))

SEEING a kunabee is an omen that you'll be blessed with good fortune. HEARING the song of a kunabee in conjunction with seeing it means it has sensed you, sensed your heart to be good, and gave you its song. To hear its melodious voice means you will have good luck for the rest of your life. Even if the event seems like bad luck, the outcome will be very beneficial to you.

And since altaran-humans can live for hundreds of years, that's a very, very long time.

THE KUNABEE... It isn't a myth. It's real. Yune's seen it twice, and heard its song both times - once when he was 10 through the clouds of a retreating thunderstorm, and once when he was 20 flying a single seat ship through the upper atmosphere of Mikra. He quickly scanned it once he snapped out of the awestruck daze of seeing it, but the sensors didn't pick up anything. Of course no one believed him both times. No one else could see it. And sensors can't detect the Source Field.

Will and Terra saw and heard one while looking up through the dome of the lab they weren't allowed to leave. None of the scientists believed them, let alone could tell them what they saw. Yune, Will, Terra, and Selka (thanks to some help) encountered a flock in space.

THE SONG MY DUMBASS SPENT WAY TOO MUCH TIME CREATING. (it's now 2:22am)

Yune sings this to help Will overcome his fear. (excerpt below.)

He noticed Will kept a vice grip on the light, “Ease up, Sparky, before you break it.”

Will loosened his death grip and tried not to be afraid. A light in the dark kept the monsters away. That was one reason out of many that he hated the lab; it was always bright. The monsters lived in it.

The darkness needled through Will’s resolve to fight his fear. He stopped. His feet stuck to the cave floor.

Yune turned around, “Sparky?”

"I'm fine," he squeaked. He clutched the light close, “M-me and the dark don’t get along.”

“Well, keep that light on and you’ll be ok,” he said, “We just gotta keep walking.”

Will nodded, “Right. I’m - I’m not scared,” yet he stayed rooted in place. 

That was a bald-faced lie that Yune could detect in a second. He realized he was dealing with a very real phobia here. Will had to be in a continuous state of fright in this cave system on top of what he felt losing Terra. He needed to do something to help the kid keep his mind off it.

“Hey. You know, this is kind of an adventure. What we need is an adventuring song.”

Will’s voice trembled, “Like what?”

“Well, what songs do you know?”

He thought hard, forcing his mind to work, “Um...uh..., ‘Take...take Me Out To The Ball Game?’”

Yune hesitated, “Uh… culture is going to be a problem here, isn’t it,” he went through his own mental inventory for something simple to learn, “Ok, how about 'Kunabee.' Did they teach you that?’”

He shook his head, too afraid to speak more than an attempted, “Ku-na-wa-na-huh?”

“Siffon, do you know that one?”

“Yes. Kanera taught me. It’s a mikran round, right?”

“Yeah, it’s one I used to sing as a kid. Just follow along, Sparky. you’ll get it,” Yune gave the petrified kid a gentle nudge forward to get his frozen legs moving and started singing an upbeat, bouncy tune;

“Kunabee, kunabee, bright and free,

Do you have a song for me?

Fly, kunabee, fly, kunabee,

Oh, how lucky my life will be.”

As they sang, Will’s fear melted away. 

The trio walked through the dimly lit cave with Yune’s medium tenor leading the bright melody for Siffon’s and Will’s higher voices turning it into a three part round. This had the added benefit of easing his own fear.

It was a little bit of a harmonic mess, but one Will felt happy to be a part of. Yune was right; he did feel a bit better.

Terra had said Will was a good singer, but he never believed her. Now that he heard how cleanly Yune could carry a tune, and how pure Siffon’s soprano rang through the cave, he wasn’t embarrassed about his own skill. Mik-human songs were a lot like the ones he knew. Thankfully, the three of them weren’t tone deaf. 

He taught them ‘Row Row Row Your Boat,’ and Siffon taught them a yondi round called ‘The Old Man and the Pibblebonk.” 

But he forgot to ask Yune what a kunabee is.

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