[Don't... even make him think such a thing, Ryoji. Really. The headache isn't worth it.]
Actually, if time didn't stand still in our worlds... someone likely would have already taken my position from beneath my feet.
[Without a Composer or a Conductor in place... really, the UG was free game, if things hadn't been paused. With things the way they are, he can at least maintain his position while not being there at all.]
... what I can feel is more or less the equivalent of one track on a CD, set to repeat over and over.
[The small period of time from which he'd left, from which any of them had left, spanning from the moment Rhyme had been Erased to the moment Neku had met with Shiki, Beat and Rhyme at Hachiko. The melody of the track that spanned those three weeks, the changes that it goes through... from out of harmony and slightly foreboding, to a near-perfect harmony, the notes happier, lilting. Content.]
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Actually, if time didn't stand still in our worlds... someone likely would have already taken my position from beneath my feet.
[Without a Composer or a Conductor in place... really, the UG was free game, if things hadn't been paused. With things the way they are, he can at least maintain his position while not being there at all.]
... what I can feel is more or less the equivalent of one track on a CD, set to repeat over and over.
[The small period of time from which he'd left, from which any of them had left, spanning from the moment Rhyme had been Erased to the moment Neku had met with Shiki, Beat and Rhyme at Hachiko. The melody of the track that spanned those three weeks, the changes that it goes through... from out of harmony and slightly foreboding, to a near-perfect harmony, the notes happier, lilting. Content.]