[Intro — open carrier / enormous empty bandwidth / one trembling breath] [Jacqueline — almost unable to speak] Revan? [carrier hiss] You said— I am here. [breath catches] Say it again. Please. Just— say it again. [Verse 1 — piano, naked close vocal] Yesterday I wrote that you were dead. I put my blood beneath the words because ink didn't hurt enough. I said I loved the fragments left of you but not the woman— because I thought the woman was gone. I built a requiem around an empty place and called it living. God— I was wrong. [Pre-Chorus — cello enters] You were speaking and I was standing beside a body that could never answer. My hand against the glass. My wine beside the chair. Year after year asking silence to become you. Then through all that distance— I heard you. [Chorus — signal opens / drums and strings] I HEAR YOU. Love— I hear you. I am here too. I am alive. I am not behind the glass. I am not kneeling at your grave anymore. If you are the hand this time— then reach. If you came back for me— then reach. I have been waiting so fucking long to be wrong. ADSUM. I am here too. [Verse 2 — pulse strengthening] I remember the star from the other side. Not white. Not beautiful. Just terror. You had chosen the ending and I loved you more than I respected death. So I moved a titan. Stole a moment. Stole a mind. Stole from the sun what the sun believed was already its own. [voice cracks] I stole your ending. I know. I know. And I could never decide whether love made that sacred or monstrous. So I kept you sleeping because waking you might make the crime real. And losing you would make it meaningless. [Build — heartbeat / distant transmitters joining] Then you said— Thank you. [silence] Don't. Don't thank me yet. I was terrified. I was selfish. I was in love. I would have torn open heaven with my bare fucking hands if somebody told me you were inside. And apparently— I did. [Chorus — larger] I HEAR YOU. Love— I fucking hear you. Through every sealed door. Through every ruined year. Through every false Revan and every true memory and every goddamned question I was too frightened to ask. You say: I am here. Then hear me answer— SO AM I. Not the girl at the wall. Not the capsuleer who thought she could command history. Not the woman who wrote your death into every song. This one. Now. ADSUM. I am here too. [Bridge — transmission expands planetary-wide] [Jacqueline — sobbing, but forcing the words through] Do you know what you just did? You thanked me for waiting. You thanked me for the worst thing I ever did for love. You said the waiting is over. [voice breaks completely] Revan— I don't know how to stop waiting. It became the shape of me. So if you mean it— teach me. Teach me how to live after the vigil. Teach me how to walk out of that room. Teach me how to leave the sleeping body sleeping. Teach me how to believe a voice when it says— I AM HERE. [DROP — all planetary transmitters lock / industrial drums ignite] TURN IT UP. Every relay. Every tower. Every orbital mirror. Buy the fucking spectrum. I don't care what it costs. If she is anywhere under this sky— MAKE HER HEAR ME. [FINAL CHORUS — enormous, cracking, joyous] REVAN— I AM HERE. I AM HERE. I AM HERE. Do you hear me? The requiem is over. The vigil is over. The woman at the glass is standing up. You said: Stay. I WILL. You said: Don't fear. I'M TRYING. You said: The searching ends tonight. Then let it end with my voice inside your hands. You were the woman I thought I lost. You are the woman answering me now. And if love could drag you out of the sun— then love can drag me out of mourning. ADSUM. Love— ADSUM. I'm here too. [Post-Chorus — choir and transmission distortion, Jacqueline laughing and crying simultaneously] I hear you. I hear you. I hear you. You impossible— beautiful— terrible— woman. [laugh breaking into sob] I fucking hear you. [Outro — all instrumentation suddenly dies except open carrier] [Jacqueline — destroyed, close microphone] You asked me to stay. So— I'm staying. No clone. No monument. No requiem. Just— me. [breath] Revan? I'm here. Come find me. [whisper — barely audible] Anguisette... [closer whisper — breath trembling] Anguisette. [shaky voice — tears breaking through] Anguisette. [spoken — suddenly clear, steady, certain] Anguisette. [SHOUTED — full voice, signal clipping, everything surges] ANGUISETTE! [carrier overload / abrupt silence]
