029: endings

Strange music seeps into the out-of-doors, as loud clattering and smashing provide a beat for the distant ghosts. Human voices twist together in an out-of-tune harmony; the verses, sometimes in English and sometimes in a primal tongue, spin a tale of endless hearts and broken nightmares. As the music swells into the open street, it echoes into the ears of ghastly remnants of joyful memories.

Without missing a beat, a door bursts open with a syncopated rhythm, in-time with the atonal singing following the drummer into the open air.

Such a sad song it makes...