Chapter 37 - For What It's Worth (2)
Reedley.
The Chapel.
Saturday morning began with hope.
At 8 AM sharp, Father Parson unlocked the church for the choristers of the Reedley Parish, flanked by the two girls who had arrived a few minutes earlier by virtue of Uncle Paco. With the Tule fog swirling like churned butter around them, the choristers marched into the church and the pews, ready to receive the blessing that Mio’s angelic friend had brought to them from the high heavens.
Yesterday, almost all of them had heard the girl sing. Still, no one knew exactly what they were in for, or how famous they might become by Christmas, but they were Father Parson’s choristers, and when he called, they showed.
“Hi everyone!” The girl was chirpy and pretty and sweet, unlike any choral mistress they had ever known. “I'm going to do my very best to teach everyone a song!”
They also would not know that she knew nothing about choir training and was operating entirely by the will of God, which was thematically appropriate for the occasion.
| Trait Acquired [Gospel] Causality Tier (B+) Gospel is the voice of the silenced, the soul-cry of the unheard. It is the soul of songs that predates instrumentation. Gospel is rooted in the slavery-era spiritual, speaking for the invisible churches and the hollerers on the bitter fields. You have acquired advanced knowledge of Gospel A Cappella. You possess an instinctual talent for creating a Gospel Ensemble, drawing on historical sermonic traditions to build rhythm, repetition, pitch escalation, and dynamic arc through your congregation of the faithful. This skill cannot be improved beyond B+ without training, knowledge, cooperation, practice and complementary [Traits] This trait can no longer be improved through Karmic Causality.
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