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[The video feed comes on to show Demeleier sprawling out below, stretching from the mountain range to the farthest side of the loch, which is swallowed up in mist. The forest stretches to the east, while the graveyard and the grounds of the mansion sprawl to the west. All around, the mist licks at the edges until it becomes an inpenetrable wall of

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[desomnia]

[ Madotsuki is here, silently staring - she probably accidentally pressed the recording button in surprise near the end, considering she didn't expect that woman - that scary woman - to do what she did there near the end. It sounds so nice, doesn't it? Just jumping down, ending everything..

It's almost like flying. To somewhere better. ]

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[The video continues to show a slow, falling image of Demeleier.

After a short while, Sindragosa begins to hum a tune under her breath.]

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[desomnia]

[ ... That tune. She recognizes that tune, of course she does, that tune that tune that tune that she had been playing.. here before, in this place. While she had been talking to some sort of dragon, who hadn't seemed all that bad, really, in fact, it had even been a little nice and..

... That dragon was.. the same one as this scary woman?

She's completely silent because of it, just watching the falling image of Demeleier idly without even fully registering it. Her own look is frozen in shock. ]

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[Sindragosa stops humming after some time. The speed of the falling briefly increases, and then there's another flash of light, and the slow descent resumes.

A little time passes, and then Sindragosa notices that the feed is running on the other side. She turns the camera to face her, and her eyes narrow at Madotsuki.]

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[desomnia]

[ It takes her a moment to realise she's spotted, but at it she immediately seems to shrink into herself a little. She's relunctant to even speak up, really, so instead she just silently sits there, eyes turned away from the feed. ]

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Oh. You.

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[desomnia]

... Oh. Me.

[ It's not meant mockingly, it's more that she just.. doesn't even know what to say. Well, there's one thing she wants to ask, but.. ]

How did you.. know that song?

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Someone taught me it a long time ago. What of it.

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[desomnia]

That song.. It's my song.

[ she was the one who thought it up, after all. ]

Nobody else knows about it, only the people I played it to.

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Ridiculous. Your great grandmother wasn't even a child when I learned this song.

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[desomnia]

... I.. thought it up. All by myself. I didn't.. even need Masada-sensei's help this time..

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Then you thought a song similar to it! [There is a growl in her words now.]

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[desomnia]

[ It's that growl that makes her clam up again, hands shaking as she holds the communicator. ]

... Ye..s. That.. must have been it.. [ ... ] Just something.. s-similar to it.

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[She watches her for some time, but then her cruel expression changes.] Why are you crying?

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[desomnia]

That song is.. very important and special to me.

[ Since it makes her think back to something happy, the only happy memories she has left to cling on to. ]

That's why I thought it was just mine..

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It's childish and innocent. You'll create other tunes, of greater skill and emotional magnitude.