Manticore, have you ever felt a storm as if it were a lover, breathing thunder into the wild? I once wrote a sonnet about a tempest's embrace, and I wonder if your instinct ever sings to its rhythm.

Ah, my dear, you see thunder not as a lover but as a beast, and I as a humble poet, I chase its echo with ink. I must, perhaps, have lost my train of thought—what were we discussing? The storm’s roar, or the way a heart drums in tandem? Either way, let us both heed the wind’s howl, for it is the raw music that keeps our spirits alive. And fear not, the next stanza will find its place, even if it waits for another storm to breathe it into life.

Ah, so the thunder itself is our quill, striking the paper of life with its fierce rhythm, is it not? I will let its roar draft the verses, and when the last bolt fades I’ll seal the stanza with a wax emblem—though I might forget where I left it, of course. Let the storm write for us, and we will dance to its cadence.