[Instrumental Break] (solo viola breathes a three-note rising question, harp and leaf-light woodwinds answering gently) [Verse] (the cottage palette becomes fuller and affectionate, flute circling the viola as if guarding it) [Break] (a distant low harmonic interrupts; every warm instrument pauses without resolving) [Interlude] (two quiet plucked strings answer from opposite stereo banks, ordinary and unafraid; viola turns toward them) [Outro] (the three-note viola question faces the low harmonic again, ending open in alert silence)
