StoryCanonIo answers Quibbins in a major third and a minor seventh, and he cannot tell whether it answered at all.
Quibbins guesses at each interval himself, and neither guess settles where Io came from or whom it chooses.
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Io is a Fundamental of the universe, a force older than time whose being occupies all planes while only a fraction crosses into physical existence.
No charted connections yet.
questions Io on the white flats and gets intervals where he needs words. Rumor puts the Wisp, which is supposedly everywhere, in this one place, and he finds it under a sky so wide it hurts his eyes, the air tasting of static and salt, a soft thrum pulsing around him like a heartbeat. Those who have met Io say it speaks only through cooperation and harmonic tones; a nomad told him it sometimes sings, that a major key means it likes you and that dissonance means run.
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