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[ttlyisabard]

What kind of singer am I if I can't even write my own lyrics?

[There's movement, rustling papers and the sounds of books being dropped onto a table. Kate has been reading through the library now that it's safe again, searching for inspiration. She had started to transcribe ballads from her world, but stopped when they brought back memories she

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[ixgideonxi]

"Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."

...That's by Robert Frost, by the way. A little poem called "Nothing Gold Can Stay". Oh! And uh, Emerson is good too.

[ttlyisabard]

That's ... a little depressing ... It has good flow though ...

What's Eden? Wasn't that in the Old Testament?

[ixgideonxi]

Eden? Yeah. The Garden of Eden was paradise on Earth, basically, built by God for man. The first humans lived in it until they sinned and were cast out into the world.

[ttlyisabard]

Sounds similar to a story on my world ... I guess these things keep repeating themselves.

[ixgideonxi]

Oh, really? How does the story go on your world, Firefly?

[ttlyisabard]

Well ... a long time ago there were a race of people on my world who mastered magic. They grew to be so powerful that they no longer needed their gods, so they stopped paying reverence to them. When a god is no longer revered, they weaken and eventually die. So the last god, the Mother Dragon, descended from the heavens and destroyed the ancients.

After her attack, she returned to the sky to rest. In her sleep, she gave birth to seven dragons, the elements, who brought the world back to life.

[ixgideonxi]

Ohh, interesting. The first two humans--Adam and Eve-- they were banished from Eden because they disobeyed God. A serpent in the grass tricked them into eating a forbidden fruit, and... well, shit went down.

[ttlyisabard]

Hmmm ... I guess people don't change.

[ixgideonxi]

... I've changed.

[ttlyisabard]

You're a person, you're not 'people'. I mean us as a whole. Humans ... we're ... easily corruptable.

[ixgideonxi]

Hmmm...

... You're right, I guess. It's a bit sad, but you're right.