"Read— no, listen to the song without thinking of the music or how to improve it," Suguru says. That would resonate more than having her just read the lyrics. "I have a recording of it, if you need." Her manager sent it to last night, and she's listened it a few times already.

"I know the topic is something unusual for you, so I don't expect it to resonate the same way it does for me, but I know you're capable of feeling it when you understand." Once something clicks for her, Satoru had been stunning and capable of depth and greatness, but the emotions just took a different approach and longer lead up time. "I think, emotionally, you should be counterpoint to me; instead of a struggle, you're resolution. And vice versa."

She pulls out her phone to play the song for her.