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[The picture starts on a stack of quiet a few thin books. Closer inspection would reveal that they are apparently collections of piano music. Some music lover seems to have lucked out and found these for dirt cheap somewhere since they're next to useless in this place.

Right as people may begin questioning who is doing this, a kitten that's appeared on screen before walks up and starts curiously poking at the books with her nose. A hand reaches in to grab her as the tablet is seemingly placed against the books due to the odd angle it holds for a few moments.]

Hey, be careful with those!

[The voice, if recognizable, is oddly soft and gentle despite the chastising. Like he was hoping no one would hear that. Oops.

Finally the video sharply turns to show a very serious looking Elliot as Arietta squirms from his grasp onto his shoulder.]

Does anyone know who these people are?! Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky... [He probably mispronounced a few of those.] There are dozens of these guys and I've never heard of any of them! Do all of them live in this place?!

[Elliot seems to think that finding out this information is incredibly important from the tone in his voice.]

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They do?

[Wow, music from various times and nations being grouped together. Amazing...

He grabs the book on top of the stack and flips through it quickly.]

Start with this Chopin person! From the looks of it, he seemed to have a good understanding of the piano's versatility.

Chopin? _{( He pronounces it in French. )}

He's from Poland, in Europe. Which is... east a' where we are now. He was a Romantic, lived about... two hundred years before my time.

Definitely knew 'is way 'round a waltz.

Chopin? [He repeats the correct pronunciation. How was he supposed to know, seriously.]

So he wrote romantic waltzes? There has to be more complexity to it if he wrote so many pieces.

Then what about Beethoven?

Romantic, but not romantic. It's a school a' music.

An' Beethoven was German. Little earlier than Chopin, same area a' the world. Probably the most famous composer ever, in my world. Other than Mozart.

_{( He prefers jazz, but music's always been an interest in one way or another. )}

There are different schools of music here? What distinguishes them?

[Yeah, nationalities aren't meaning a ton to him, all it's telling him is these guys aren't from the same place.]

Those two are? Their pieces do look impressive, but they don't have a substantially greater amount of pieces in these books.

Time, style, place, people. Normal stuff.

Quality over quantity, homme.

It's not that common. Where I'm from, we have the music practiced by the nobles and the simple songs the lower classes create.

I know that! If anything, that just proves their pieces must be excellent!

Well, that's borin'. _{( Said so blandly. )}

An' that's kinda the point. They're geniuses, or they were.

It's not boring! There are excellent composers where I'm from, as well! I just have yet to find any of their pieces!

If they've lasted after their deaths, then that just proves the point.

Then they prob'ly don't exist, here. Different worlds, an' all that.

Well, that's the goal, ain't it? Leavin' a legacy.

Books from my world have been found in the library, so I'd say it's possible.

[Leaving a legacy. Hmm, would have been nice if his family could have done that...] It's not so easy to achieve, so I would still consider it impressive.

Unless you're leavin' a lousy one. Then it's easy.

A bad legacy may not as well be left at all!

[#things he wishes he could tell his father now]

Prob'ly a matter a' opinion, there.

Maybe you wanted ta be bad, no? Then you'd be proud a' it.

If someone else wants to be bad, then they have other issues they need to work on! Do they even think about how the people who care about them will feel if they leave a legacy like that?

I think they just don't care. Kinda the point a' bein' bad.

I know that! But if they really don't care, that just means they need to think more!

You really think that's the difference, between good people an' bad?

Basically, yes! Anyone who gives proper consideration to their actions and to the people around them won't be stupid or weak enough to act that badly!