Free The Wind Rose by B. Roman Page A

fact that more than one note and more than one instrument can be played at the same time, and qualities like pitch, timbre, loudness and duration all enter into the equation.”
    “I know it's a real long shot, but considering the law of averages, mathematically speaking, after all these years of creating music, couldn't someone just stumble upon the combination and not know it?”
    “It's possible. Remotely possible,” Rami concedes. “But if they did it unconsciously they would also unconsciously reject the patterns.”
    “I don't understand.”
    “It all comes down to intent,” Saliana explains. “When people create music, they have the intention of evoking a response, usually a pleasant or favorable one.”
    “Like romance or happy memories,” David submits. “But what about anger or power or control?”
    “People
use
music to do this, but they don't usually
create
it with this intention.”
    “But Hitler used the music Wagner created to stir up the German masses to Nazism,” David corrects Saliana.
    “Yes, but Wagner didn't create his music for this perverted purpose,” Rami corrects David. “His intention was to shock and provoke, yes, but to lift people up to a different way of thinking, to self-empowerment not self-destruction. I think whoever is writing the dissonant music in Port Avalon knows it can destroy, because that is his conscious intent.”
    “But why do you think it's Dr. Ramirez? What's his motive?”
    “Well, that's the question, isn't it?” Rami suggests. “What
is
his motive?”
    “Whatever it is, we've got to stop him,” David says, emphatically. “I'll just go tell him he has to stop, that he's hurting people and could destroy the entire town.”
    “I doubt he will be stopped that easily. We need to find out why he has turned his passion into a malevolent obsession. And when we do, his impulses will have to be reversed.”
    “Well, if we tell the authorities and he goes to jail, that will stop him!”
    “No, no. We can't make it public,” Rami warns. “If we do, there are others who would go to any lengths to have these codes, to hold the entire world hostage. No. No one must know what is happening.”

Twenty-two
    “Rami, you went to extraordinary lengths to protect the Singer,” Ishtar says later, when the two of them meet alone, “nearly drowning to keep it safe. But now it must be returned to David. He needs it. Why are you so hesitant?”
    When Coronadus was destroyed by Bianca, in an effort to save the people she loved, Rami was washed out to sea in the tidal wave. Although David tried to rescue him, he couldn't, and Rami and the Singer disappeared beneath the turbulent water. Before he sank to the depths of the ocean, Rami promised David he would protect the sacred crystal just as David had to protect the Wind Rose.
    But when David asked Rami where the Singer was and if he could have it back, Rami was evasive and told David that he will give it to him when the time is right.
    “I want him to use it right this time, when he returns home with it,” Rami insists to Ishtar. “He must realize the importance and the ramifications of his ownership of all three artifacts, especially the Singer.”
    “I believe David knows fully its importance,” Ishtar defends David.
    “But he must understand why he was given the power to sail the Moon Singer. He can't just continue to play around with crystals and grid patterns and accidentally fall into a solution,” Rami protests.
    “Well, it was no accident this time. He deliberately set out to conjure up the Moon Singer and come back here, not even knowing what his mission is.”
    “Yes, he had the intent,” Rami counters, “but it was still just luck that he entered the proper codes into his computer, even if they were in random sequence.”
    “On a subconscious level he knows them, or else how could he come up with them?” Ishtar is getting a bit perturbed at Rami's intransigence.
    “He must
consciously
know,” Rami