verse four is audio

[allsongs]

[a little night music, Exsilium?

this feed comes within the midst of some, with Simmaeri idly grazing her fingers across the face of the tablet. she's taken to song while she waits for some sound – more fresh voices from the machine. but it's rather late (say, 2am? shush i can forward date if i want), so there's few stirring.

those who do have the network open can hear, though. some foreign song with foreign words, somehow conveying something about silver ladies and faraway cages...sleeping kings and a girl on fire (who isn't alicia keys). slow and soft, rather sad.

it tapers now and then to a humming refrain, the last of which ebbing to quiet with the end of the song.]

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[allsongs]

[it's the vvoice she recognizes quicker than the fishy face, really. that's just how she's wired.

but there is a delay, searching for the name tied to it; with so many faces and names in her memory and him so faintly known, it does get lost in the shuffle.

ah, there it is:]

Eridan. Hello.

[caligulas_aquarium]

Sim.

[A nod.]

So, what, you pass your time singin' so much or somethin'.

[allsongs]

Yes. I am happy to. [a slight pause.] I will sing while men sleep and time changes.

SORRY THIS IS SO LATE Im back on track now i swwwwwear

[caligulas_aquarium]

You know ain't nobody really gonna hear as much as they could if it's while they're all asleep.

...unless that's your intention, then you might not wanna go broadcastin' this shit all ower the network.

ACCEPTS YOUR OATH

[allsongs]

[her head tilts, eyebrow quirked. she smiles slow, amused as ever by his cadence, but having to work through his words.]

Do you ask if it matters if there are ears to hear my songs?

BOUND BY rp BLOOOOOOOOOOOoOoOoOoOoooOooD

[caligulas_aquarium]

[...]

Yeah.

That not the whole point in it in the first place.

WOW NO KEEP UR GERMS TO URSELF

[allsongs]

[a soft sound.]

It is good to be listened, but I do not sing for this only. I will sing when there is no one but me and remember the ones who taught me.

KEEP UR FACE TO YOURSELF TBH

[caligulas_aquarium]

...so, what, the ones who went an' left you knew?

[ARE THEY JUST SOME PEOPLE THAT YOU USED TO KNOW, SIMMAERI.]

PLS U CAN'T RESIST

[allsongs]

[THEY DIDN'T NEED TO CUUUUT ME OFFF.....BY BEING MORTAL AND DYING.........]

All leave and I remember. This is the way it is, Eridan.

[caligulas_aquarium]

Why?

Seems sorta pointless if you ask me.

[allsongs]

Why do you say so?

[caligulas_aquarium]

If they done great or noteworthy shit in their time I figure they're worth mentionin', sure, but aside that when someone kicks it you just gotta mowe on.

[allsongs]

You think I do not move, Eridan?

[caligulas_aquarium]

We're speakin' in figuratiwes here, Sim'.

I'm talkin' the mowin' on sort of "oh yeah they were cool but they're dead so I ain't likely to think about 'em ewer again." mowe on.

[allsongs]

[there's a soft sound.]

No, I cannot do that. I have made promises.

[caligulas_aquarium]

Well liwin' your life for the sake of rememberin' a buncha dead folk through song seems awful silly.

[allsongs]

There is always more.

[caligulas_aquarium]

...more what?

[allsongs]

Living. More to hear and more to see. More to remember soon.

1/2

[caligulas_aquarium]

[caligulas_aquarium]

Well, yeah.

That's how bein' aliwe works.

[allsongs]

Then you do not find happiness in remembering where life was?

[caligulas_aquarium]

Ok, now you gotta be pullin' this on purpose.

I mean, if you sit around thinkin' "wow dead guy number 2 sure was a heck of a guy" ain't you just gonna end up wantin' 'em not to be dead no more more than before.

Real downer of a way to be don't you reckon.

[allsongs]

Don't you reckon. [Eridan, your accent is still so charming, even when you're getting all snippy.]

I will always want to see them again, Eridan. It will always be happy and sad. This is what it must be.

[caligulas_aquarium]

Well I still think it's easier to just try an' forget about 'em.