The Song weaver's Lament

Act I: The Silence

(Soft, haunting melody hummed beneath spoken words)

In a village cradled by mountains of stone,

Lived a girl whose voice turned the wind to a song.

But the day the Shadow swallowed the sun,

Her melody vanished—her throat held none.

They called her Lirael, "tongue of the storm,"

Now a ghost of her echo, her spirit forlorn.

The elders whispered of curses, of debts unpaid—

"Find the Whispering Woods," her frail mother prayed.

(Rhythm quickens)

Through thorns that clawed and rivers that hissed,

She followed the ache in her clenched, trembling fist.

For the woods held a secret, a threadbare refrain:

"To reclaim what’s lost, you must lose once again."

Act II: The Forest of Voices

(Begin with a low, wordless chorus—voices overlapping like wind through leaves. The singer narrates as Lirael, shifting to character voices for the stag and echoes.)

Lirael (spoken, trembling):

The trees… they’re singing with stolen tongues.

A lullaby I once knew. A hymn to a buried sun.

(Suddenly, sharp breaths as if gasping. The chorus fractures into dissonance.)

Chorus of Lost Voices (whispering, panicked):

"Run, little songbird, the stag sees your heart—

He’ll carve out your cadence and tear you apart!"

Lirael (sung, fragile melody):

But what is a voice if it’s chained to the air?

I’ll trade my own silence to find what’s buried there.

(A deep, resonant growl shakes the rhythm—the stag emerges. The singer shifts to a gravelly, multi-layered tone.)

Stag (spoken-sung, echoing):

Ah, Lirael… We’ve waited for you.

Your brother’s last note still clings to your bones like dew.

Give me that memory—the boy’s foolish tune—

And I’ll spin you a song sharp enough to pierce the moon.

Lirael (defiant, rising pitch):

His song isn’t yours to claim, horned thief!

It lives in the cracks where I cradle my grief.

Stag (mockingly sweet):

*Grief? (Laughs, then harsh) Grief is a cage.

Let me free you, little sparrow.

(Whispers) Give me his face. His laugh. His name.

(The chorus swells with fragmented echoes of Lirael’s brother—a distant hum of his melody. Lirael’s voice breaks.)

Lirael (raw, whispered):

…His name was Kael.

He taught me to sing when the world grew pale.

Stag (triumphant):

Then yours is the voice I’ll add to my crown!

(Thunderous roar) Speak his name—and watch it drown!

(A cacophony of screams and discordant notes. Lirael’s voice is almost swallowed—until she claws back with a primal hum.)

Lirael (guttural, repeating as a mantra):

The song is mine. The song is mine.

Not in my throat—but in my spine.

(Silence. Then, a single pure note—her brother’s melody—emerges from the chaos. The stag recoils.)

Stag (hissing):

You… you carry his bones in your breath.

Go then, fool. Let the Silent King feast on what’s left.

Act III: The Hollow Crown

(Drums crescendo, then sudden silence)

The forest split, revealing a throne,

Where sat a king made of bones and broken tones.

His crown pulsed with voices, Lirael’s curled there too—

A shimmering thread of gold and blue.

(Rising intensity)

"I am the Silent King," he hissed. "The devourer of sound.

You’ll join my chorus, in this hollowed ground."

But Lirael’s hands clenched—not at her throat, but her chest,

Where a hum stirred faintly, a rebel breath.

(Slow, triumphant realization)

The memory traded—her brother’s last rhyme—

Still lived in her heartbeat, keeping time.

"You can’t steal what I choose to give!"

She sang the notes he’d taught her to live.

Act IV: The Unwoven Song

(Layered harmonies, chaotic then resolving)

The crown shattered. Voices burst free—

A thousand songs woven into a sea.

The king crumbled; the stag bowed low,

As Lirael’s voice surged, a river of snow.

(Quiet, reflective tone)

She returned to the village, but her song was… changed.

Darker, wiser, notes rearranged.

For every voice holds shadows and light—

To sing true, you must embrace the night.

(Final chorus, resonant and warm)

And when the wind howls through the stone,

You’ll hear her hum, no longer alone.

For broken songs mend stronger seams…

And the world is made of borrowed dreams.

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