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JUXTAPOSITION
Solara — (9.4) QUASAR

JUXTAPOSITION

"Juxtaposition"

CONCEPT

Spida saves the day — he and Catipala pull SOLARA through the northwest gate (the same light). They emerge at Level 29, Fold 1 — back where they started. Happy reunion. Names shared. Chaos and Disorder just being Chaos and Disorder. Mayhem, Havoc and Ruin enthusiastically break important things. But SOLARA does not remember any of it. She does not know who she is.

LYRICS

[Verse 1]

Spida had been watching the light since Catipala drew the arrow

He did not say this out loud

He was a gatekeeper

He knew gates

This was a gate

He said: grab her

He said: now

Catipala grabbed her other side

They pulled

Through the northwest light

Through the thing that had no name

Through the anti-convergence running backwards

And then Level Twenty-Nine

And then everyone

[Pre-Chorus]

She fell into the middle of everyone

The crew from Fold Two

The crew from negative forty-five

All of them

Together

At Level Twenty-Nine

Disorder was there

She looked at SOLARA

She said: she’s back

Chaos said: finally

He said: do you know how long that took

[Chorus]

Juxtaposition

She is back in the place she left from

Juxtaposition

Everyone she knows is standing here

The crew from the levels

The crew from the negative

The captain in the middle

All of them

At the same level

At the same time

This is the reunion

This is the reunion

[Verse 2]

Names were shared

Chaos introduced himself

At length

With the bounty number

Disorder said: I am Disorder

She said: he is with me

Chaos said: she is with me

Mayhem said: I am Mayhem

He already broke something

He said it was an accident

Havoc said: Havoc

He nodded

Ruin said: Ruin

He also nodded

They were excellent at existing

Persy said: I am Persy

He said: I am excellent

He said it to SOLARA specifically

He said: we have been through things together

She looked at him

She said: okay

[Pre-Chorus 2]

She said: what is this place

Castor said: Level Twenty-Nine

She said: and why are we here

He said: because it is where we came from

She said: where did we come from

He said: here

She looked around

She said: hm

[Bridge]

Disorder noticed first

She watched SOLARA’s face

The way she looked at the crew

Like she was looking at strangers

Not frightened strangers

Not unfriendly strangers

Just people she had never met

Disorder said: does she know where she is

Aldric said: she knows Level Twenty-Nine

Aldric said: she does not know us

The room went a different kind of quiet

Chaos said: she doesn’t know me

He said: I have a one billion star coin bounty

He said: everyone knows me

SOLARA said: that is a lot of star coins

She said it politely

The way you say something

When you are being polite

To someone you have never met

[Final Chorus]

Juxtaposition

She is standing with everyone she loves

And she does not know them

The reunion happened

And she was not there for it

All of them at the same level

All of them at the same time

And she is somewhere else entirely

Looking out from the inside

The captain is back

But the captain is not back

This is the reunion

This is the reunion

Hold on

[Outro]

Mayhem broke something important

In the library

It made a very loud sound

Nobody said anything about it

They were looking at SOLARA

She looked at Mayhem

She said: I hope that was not important

He said: probably not

She said: okay

She seemed to find this reasonable

Disorder looked at Chaos

He said nothing for once