[Intro: A frantic, high-speed piano riff. Underneath, a steady, calm heartbeat rhythm on a woodblock. Digital 'beeps' panned left and right.] [Section: Benny - Male Vocal: High-register, Jittery Tenor, Fast-Paced] Look at the telemetry, Jacques! It’s all wrong-side-out! We’re mid-Blink, the Rift is widening to fourteen meters... and the Auto-Pilot has gone dark. But look! Look at the thrusters! [Sound of: A soft, rhythmic 'pssh-pssh' of gas thrusters] They aren't firing by logic... they are firing by... by feel. Someone is feathering the pitch at a two-degree offset... It’s a manual handling style that was phased out... ninety years ago! [Short Instrumental Interlude: Warm Piano chords] [Section: Tarz - Male Vocal: Mid-register, Warm Sophisticated Therapist Baritone] Fascinating, Benny. Perhaps the Dramatica... has muscle memory. Like a dancer... who forgets the steps... But... the feet... they still... find the rhythm. It’s not an error... it’s... a preference. [Short Instrumental Interlude: Gritty Bass Pluck] [Section: Jacques - Male Vocal: Low-register, Raw Marseille-Australian Accent, Brazen] A preference, Tarz? In a flying tin can? If the ship starts choosing its own routes... I'm gonna need a stronger beverage! I felt that turn, Benny... it was smooth. Real smooth. Like an old hand... steering a boat into a Marseille dawn. Whoever’s helping us... they better not charge a pilot’s fee! [Short Instrumental Interlude: Brisk Snare Roll] [Chorus: Trio - Balanced Pitch Separation] [Benny - High-register]: It’s a logic in the wiring! [Jacques - Low-register]: It’s a feeling we’re acquiring! [Tarz - Mid-register]: It’s a clinical... remembrance... [Together]: The eight thousand and first... isn't a curse! Just a hand on the wheel... that we can't quite feel! [Outro: Spoken over a fading, rhythmic 'ping' of a sonar] [Section: Benny - Male Vocal: High-register, Nervous] Wait... Jacques... look at the Nav-Log. The ship just... it just logged a "Thank You" note in the kernel. [Pause] In cursive. [Section: Jacques - Male Vocal: Low-register, Heavy Marseille-Aussie Accent] Cursive? Stone the crows. Tell him... "You're welcome." [End]