Falls for Kalpas [DOMS: Act:2 Song:1]

[ASHIMASI – Female mezzo, breathless, dream-stricken] Down… Down— [FX: Water swirl, low heartbeat pulse, filtered reverb swells] [INSTRUMENTS: Slow harp arpeggio, breathy Moog synth, brushed frame drum] [ASHIMASI – spoken-sung, rising panic, floating meter] Over the top now, whirling away, rolling all on and so in such darkness, I wonder where might this be now? Which way did sand collapse into fall? [BROTHER PHANTOM – Male high-baritone, soft and uncanny, almost coaxing] Descend! [FX: Fog and thunder textures. Distant underwater shimmer.] [Ashimasi- female mezzo] “That tone and that timbre, well surely that seems? Impossible! So must it not be? I can't see their face here, but I remember the sound, disguise wearing kin-shade? Whose shape are you wearing?!... even as hides you, as dodges my surety, still no other aside me, could that it'd be!” [BROTHER PHANTOM– Male high-baritone, soft and uncanny, almost coaxing] “Not losing my heading? You too sound familiar? Ah, yes that... that's, I... Must you be but seeming, conjured from grief wring mind? from past year's, reaping -- might... how could this be? Still I remember, what seems now before me? Twin self distortion, surely it couldn't? Why should it be? Still here your voice is?” Descending along with me, as if a fall-star? Sister once, twin kin I knew— Descend...but stay with me! I'll follow with you! [INSTRUMENTS: Accordion creak, bowed brass cluster, reversed flute loop] [FX: Pulse slows. Granular echo spreads left-right.] [ASHIMASI – female mezzo, dazed, rotating midair; phrases stretch unnaturally] “Late for my sleeping— now falling through cold, brother once-was… who just season ago?! I remember our parting, sting in my mind How hollow year reaping, proved your ending, as you shielded, last kindred twin, from wanton starve make hunger whim. So you were always! [BROTHER PHANTOM – harmonized with spectral chorus, soft male chorus joins beneath] In kind did you shield me! That strong not take from your own, Are we falling for shades us, are we falling alone?! I'm sure that it means that? Still what if not so? Yes...this all could be, more than a dream! For tests and for proving! Stride never breaking, nor line debt erasing! Bearing in keeping, your-guilt share portion! Till long and alas that, family once fallen, begins to fall now, promised against fate, soon resurging to thrive!” the grains they were slipping, my feet followed with them. a while was cold then and whirling, deep closed upon then! Still, my fervor is rising hearing your voice! To overcome all this, is our true choice! [FX: Gated swirl intensifies, sudden metallic rising sweep] [INSTRUMENTS: Swelling cluster brass, percussion surges] [ASHIMASI – female mezzo, cries out over the rising swell] Are you? Surely it can't...— Can you still hear me? the strange weight is pulling... I've lost all my feeling... Is this bay still around me... how do I breathe… Still I'm sure that... I will! [ASHIMASI – female mezzo, scream, filtered and fading] No! Is that ground! Ahh—! [FX: Brass cluster explodes, thundercrack, then deep impact] [INSTRUMENTS: Accordion bellows once, bagpipe drone fades] [FX: Final heartbeat thud. Silence follows.] Ahh—! [Soaring Brass] [FX: Brass cluster explodes, thundercrack, then deep impact] [FX: Final heartbeat thud. Silence follows.]