[Mikumo gives a faint sound of amusement at that, reaching her hand out as if to catch the wind.]
The music that things unexpectedly respond to is often either something left by the Protoculture, or happens to cross wires with how an alien species communicates. This was the former. Windermere, the planet that was triggering outbreaks intentionally, has a rare line of people referred to as Wind Singers, who inherited some trait from the Protoculture that allows them to sing songs that can deeply affect living things - not only humans. The Song of the Wind, as they call it, is what set off the bacteria.
[She's leaving some information out of that - the Wind Singers descending from the Star Singer, the figure somewhere between priestess and goddess left to Windermere by the Protoculture, and the Star Singer's song having similar effects. But there's no real need to discuss that here, particularly not when she'd prefer nobody here find out about the Star Singer at all.]
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The music that things unexpectedly respond to is often either something left by the Protoculture, or happens to cross wires with how an alien species communicates. This was the former. Windermere, the planet that was triggering outbreaks intentionally, has a rare line of people referred to as Wind Singers, who inherited some trait from the Protoculture that allows them to sing songs that can deeply affect living things - not only humans. The Song of the Wind, as they call it, is what set off the bacteria.
[She's leaving some information out of that - the Wind Singers descending from the Star Singer, the figure somewhere between priestess and goddess left to Windermere by the Protoculture, and the Star Singer's song having similar effects. But there's no real need to discuss that here, particularly not when she'd prefer nobody here find out about the Star Singer at all.]