[Instrumental] [Intro: single cello, bare, a quiet open note held, a breath before speaking] [Theme: cello states a simple, clear, rising melody in steady full tone, confident, plain, certain, like a child saying the right answer out loud] [Interruption: the line is cut off mid-phrase, a sudden heavy falling interval, a long silence] [Theme, doubted: same melody returns slower, softer, tone thins, vibrato trembles, one note bends flat as if second-guessing] [Theme, fading: melody shortens to fragments, notes drop away, bowing barely audible] [Ending: a single rising question-phrase, left hanging on an unresolved note, no cadence, no resolution]
