Orpheus

He heard the world as sound.
Not metaphor — literally. The world arrived in Orpheus as sound before it arrived as anything else. He heard the grief in a room before he saw the face that was carrying it. He heard the note the Clashing Rocks made in the moment before they moved and he played it back to them and the rocks heard themselves and paused. He went into the underworld with only the lyre and the grief and he played and the Furies wept.
He had the gift and the gift was real and the gift ...