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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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That's...actually impressive that you restored it to that quality, especially in a place like this... How's the one in the theater?

[And time to flip through the books quickly.] Great, that is in one of these! ...I'm assuming this means you're familiar with the piano music of this world?

Decent. I received some help in replacing wires from them.

Yes. I have come from an earth and it would seem that most music is similar between this world and mine.

From who?! [Not that he doesn't have a way to play it, but a real instrument is so much different than his weapon...]

I see. Some of these styles seem similar to the higher-class compositions of my world, but I've never seen any of these particular pieces before.

The theater troop.

They are a bit old even in my time. Classics and considered some of the better pieces of music by those that know such things.

This place actually has one?

If they're really that old and nothing else was written that surpassed them in that time, they must be.

Yes. We put on Sweeney Todd only last month.

More like that the music style has changed but the classics still stay strong.

Who is Sweeney Todd? Another composer?

Ah, I see. That does sound similar to the music I'm familiar with, then. And these have obviously lasted even longer than any pieces I know. [So impressed wow...]

It is a musical about a man by the name of Sweeney Todd.

They have lasted for extremely long if they are still here.

A musical what? And who was he?

About how long do you think? I'm still not overly familiar with the calendar system in this place.

It is a play set to music. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Some of the men you asked about lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is now the thirty-third century.

Demon barber...? [Yeah, that's a new one...] That sounds like a very strange play.

It's been that long? That's incredible! [Wheee music fanboying~]

It's considered as being full of black humor. [ and just for you, he'll play a song from Sweeney Todd ]

It does look to be that way.

You mean it's supposed to be humorous but it's also dark? [Not seeing how that adds up...

He frowns a little as he listens to the song. It's not that he thinks it's bad, but as a composer himself he's just considering it.] I've never heard a song intended for well-trained performance written quite like that before.

This is what we call a musical. It is basically a play set to music.

There is another term for it - gallows humor.

Gallows?! There's nothing funny about dying!

Mm, so some people like to say.

It's something everyone should say! It's a fact!

We're all dying. Every breath you take is your body dying. All that matters is how you finally breath your last.

Unless you wake up in this place, which effectively renders all of that moot.

[hint hint like him cough cough.]

Not really. This place only assures us of not dying while we are here.

[join the club, join the club]

I know that! I'm saying that thinking about making your last moments matter doesn't mean much when you've already been through them.

[They really could make a club...]

The last moments do not mean a thing. It is what others viewing those moments must be made aware of.

[there should be a big one in this place]

So they matter to those people! And there's also the people who care about you who may not be there! It takes a pretty selfish person to not consider their feelings!

If they are close enough to know about my feelings on the matter, then they are close enough to be aware that I am careless with my life because it is my life.

It may be your life, but it does affect others whether you want it to or not! Have you ever considered how they feel when you act like that?!

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