'That may prove a useful source of information.'

"He's in the backyard. You might get along, the reason he's there is he doesn't think it's pretty enough in here. He sings very well."

Ancora walks outside.

Alassëo is in fact mid-song at the time, sitting on the shore of the lake and singing about lakes.

They listen.

Alassëo is better at singing than Cam is at violin.

They listen raptly.  They're hardly going to interrupt to go fetch an instrument and they don't have a working throat yet.  But listen they certainly can.

Well, then, they can be treated to several hours of singing before Alassëo notices they're there. "- hello?"

'Hello.'

"It's - nice to meet you. You're Cam's acquaintance? Ancora-bensilisi-fentiliane?"

Ancora freezes, very briefly, then corrects: 'Ancorabenilisifentiliane.'

"I'm sorry," he says, and repeats it more exactly.

'I had heard recordings of Elven singers previously.  The experience is improved by direct presence.'

"Is it? The recordings are high enough fidelity for us but we prefer live music too."

Ancora nods.  'My senses differ in some ways from most humanoids.'

"How so?"

'I had to dull my vision and limit and adjust my color perception in order to use human screens.  I have no sense of taste.  There are likely many other differences I have yet to specifically identify.'

"And you aren't speaking aloud, I think."

'I suppose that could be considered sensory as well.'

"I find that I think differently about sounds I could imitate and sounds I couldn't. Maybe that's just me."

'Hm.  I may do this as well.  Elaborate?'

"Oh, like, I can't do a very good impression of birdsong, so I might be inspired by it, but I wouldn't try to sound directly like a bird, whereas I often imitate a song's originator when I'm learning it to more completely understand their musical intent."

Ancora nods.  'I do not usually attempt direct imitation even with the sorts of sounds I can produce, but there is perhaps a certain difference in mindset between listening to those and the sorts I cannot.'  A pause.  'And I may find imitation more useful when acquiring new methods of producing sound with which I am less practiced.'

"How do you produce sounds?"

'With instruments, largely.'