Look, I’ve loved Two Steps From Hell for a long time. I don’t bother to peruse their albums before purchasing; I just toss them into my download cart without question. Then I add them to playlists and play them, straight through or on shuffle. So I don’t actually know the titles of all the songs I love, weird as that may sound.
Tonight I’m editing the climactic scenes of The Prince’s Song. The prince in question is the Amethyst Prince, whose traditional court title happens also to recall the properties of amethyst, once considered to have purifying effects to negate alcohol or other intoxicating effects. This speaks to the character’s isolation in a performatively hedonistic culture very different from his own values.
I’m playing music as I work, as I often do (instrumental, so that lyrics do not interfere with my word-smithing). As I come up from a scene, I find myself caught by a particular sweep of music, and I check my player.
The song is called “Amethyst Prince.”
Let it be known that I did not write this story from the song (it’s from a 2022 album, well after the inception of this series)—but I do love it when things come together.
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