[Verse 1]
Something shifted
At Level Three of Fold Two
Not an earthquake
Folds do not have earthquakes
More like the fold itself
Took a breath it was not planning to take
Lara stopped writing mid-sentence
She said: did you feel that
Everyone felt that
Nobody said yes
Because saying yes meant it was real
[Pre-Chorus]
Castor looked northwest
The direction did not make sense in a fold
Direction works differently here
But northwest was where he looked
And there was light
[Chorus]
Cloudy with a chance of flare
Something in the northwest burning
Cloudy with a chance of flare
The signal went quiet between us
We cannot reach her
She cannot reach us
The fold is doing something
We do not understand
Hold the level
Hold the level
She will find us or we will find her
Hold the level
[Verse 2]
Persy said: I know what to do
Rion said: yes so do I
They looked at each other
They did not know what to do
Lara said: the fold is bending
She said: I can feel it
She said: I have notes on this
She said: not many notes
She said: more like half a note
She said: the half that says this is bad
Castor said: can you follow the light
Lara said: I do not know
She said: I have never followed a light in a fold before
She said: not at this level
She said: not with this kind of flare
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Cygnus danced one very small step northwest
Nobody told him to
He just did
Herc said: I will lift something if it helps
Rion said: there is nothing to lift
Herc said: I know
He lifted nothing
He felt better
[Bridge]
And then the signal came back
Very faint
Very far
Like something being said across a very long hallway
By someone whose person was in two places at once
They could not hear words
Just the shape of her
The outline
She was still there
She was in two places at once
And only one of them was her
Castor said: northwest
He said: that light
He said: that is the way
Lara looked at her half-note
She wrote the rest of it
She wrote: northwest is the way
[Final Chorus]
Cloudy with a chance of flare
We found the direction
Cloudy with a chance of flare
We do not know what we will find
She is there and not there
Split and still standing
And we are going northwest
To get her back
Hold the level
Hold the level
We are going northwest
We are going now
[Outro]
Persy said: let’s go
He said it like he had known all along
He had not known all along
Rion was already walking
He said: I still think I know what to do
Lara said: you just said you didn’t
Rion said: I said that before
He said: I know now
Lara looked at him
She wrote: unclear