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H-Hello.

I--I'm Nagis--Atsuko Maeda the Fourteenth! Um! I just arrived and the city seems in bad shape! I--I want to help as much as I can! So--so if anyone can tell me where the best place is I'll do it.

Mm, but everyone must be sad, too. S-so! Please enjoy my song, AKB0048's song!

. . .

In this vacuum of a land completely changed
We lost our words and stood still
What should we start on first?
Searching for the light
in the midst of despair
If there is a god somewhere,
please break open a new world
from the land once more!

(( She continues her song. The video is the song and dance! She's put the bracelet enough away from her to do both. Watching the video in its entiity isn't necessary as the group has the English transcript available :]))

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[ someone had been experimenting with their bracelet, but he'll stop to listen when your video comes on, and applaud a little when you finish ] You sing and dance well, Atsuko Maeda, although your style is not one I am familiar with. [ that dance, especially, he's never seen anything like it ] Is it your own, then? The sentiments are well-come, in this time.

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((Ah, a person's answered!))

If you want you can call me Acchan. My song is 00's song, it's the group I'm part of. Mm, I thought everyone could use some encouragement.

Acchan... [ he tests the name out, then nods, and bows to you ] Well met. Maglor, at your service, milady. Ah, you sing in a group then? I had thought you danced as if missing a partner. I will hope that you are not sundered from the rest of your troupe, but this place, I am beginning to understand, is not always so kind.

There is always need of light in the darkness, no matter how large or small.

[Ninian can't help being moved by such a peformance. Both the dance and the song aren't something she's familiar with, but she can sense the dedication and hard work behind them.]

Miss Atsuko... This is a beautiful song. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

Oh wow, what a nice song! You have a lot of talent!

That is very lovely.

((Sheepish.))

00 songs are usually designed to have 10 members in it. I thought that one would be better than others. I'm not sure anyone else is here. . .

You're right! That's why I thought... even if it's hard right now even a song can change things!

Thank you for listening! Hopefully it helps bring a wind for the future.

T-thanks! I practice every day. I wasn't able to do any of this not so long ago.

Thank you. I hope that it helped even a little . . .!

[ Well, it made him smile. ]

That was amazing!

Really? That makes me happy.

Ten! That is a large group indeed. And do they all think as you? That is a good thing indeed. [ have a sad sort of smile ] Alas that too few lights remain, at times.

Utúlië i lómë ar orutúrie’n aurë, mal er sillúmen [ he sings, then translates ] - For night has come and conquered the day, but only for this hour. It is a good sentiment, and one I am glad to see.

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It's actually a lot larger. The group's always been designed with the idea of having forty-eight members separated into teams, but a long time ago there used to be almost two-hundred. But everyone who's joined are all the same. We all want everyone to hear our song and pass on our love.

Can I heart the rest of your song one day?

. . . Does that mean not many people here believe in hope?

So many... [ he murmurs ] a good sign. Oh, tithen pen hope is a precious gift indeed, but in times of shadow it may be easily lost if not guarded. But it only ever takes one light to banish darkness. I cannot comment for the folk here - I am only newly come, myself. But I think that Hope burns brightly here, still.

If you want me to, tinwe you need only ask.

You're welcome!

I think you've done a wonderful job. It looked like you've been doing this for a long time!

I would say you're already doing well to help the city. [It might seem like a seemingly small thing, but Eyes knows those small things add up.]

I hope so. Singing's always helped before.

R-Really? I'm glad! . . . It's only been a little over a year. I never had the chance to sing before.

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Mm, there's a lot of us. There's not so many now, but 00's a group that's always getting new members. I--I don't thin that's true. One person can star it, but we can't do everything by ourselves. But I hope. . . together everyone can shine that light.

Is tinwe you're dong?

Ah, your pardon. No, Lady Acchan. Tinwe means... mm, the best translation would be "small star" or "spark". You remind me of one, your pardon. One cannot do it all by oneself, no, but... it does not take much, often.

[ his eyes turn distant, lost in memory ] Long ago, there was a terrible battle. One man stood against the din-horde, to buy the others time to retreat. Every time he slew a foe, he cried aloud aure entuluva! - day shall come again. But for one Man, we would have all been lost. His courage is still remembered by our people, will be remembered, though the sons of Men may have forgotten. One light, in the darkness.

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I am sure that it will.

Is that so? Would you mind if I asked what house you are a part of?

I'm in Freyr.

Mm, music always helps.

A-ah! But I'm not anything like that. Mm, I want to be. I want to be Center Nova one day, but for now. . . I want to work together with everyone, too.

When you put it like that. . . it's sad. He did a great thing, but doing it alone must have been really difficult.

Distractions always help. You weren't caught in all of that madness, were you?

Should I assume you also have Bardic Influence, then?

Center Nova? The term is not familiar to me, your pardon. But you shine brightly tinwe, to this old ellon.

Yes. He was, it was said, the greatest warrior of the Age, and great sorrow dogged his footsteps, and yet he did endured. Among my people, it is said that this is the true nature of estel - Hope. Not cheerfulness, or optimism, but endurance. And so we remember him as a reminder - that always, day will come, even though we live not to see it. That line I sung for you comes from the hymn that we sing even now in remembrance, for ever does Night come again and we are left only with the promise that Day will return.

I arrived today.

. . .Is it supposed to be obvious?

Those of Freyr House have one of two abilities, Drawing Life or Bardic Influence. I suppose hearing your song did make it so.

I wasn't using that power to sing, though! I only wanted everyone to hear our song.

I believe you. But here if you choose to, those songs will actually have... more power, so to speak. I'm not certain of how the maids describe it in the present.

[That's good, very good. She looks too young for any of this. Alice grimaces.]

Then you missed it. Good.

You could have fooled me! Why don't you do it more!

I'm never going to stop singing.

Mm, but I still want to do something.

I don't want to use any magic! If I do something like that than my true feelings won't get through to everyone.

And what were you looking to do? Was it something similar along the lines to singing?

Anything I could. AKB0048's always sang to try and encourage people and bring them hope. So I thought it would help here, too.

Good!

...if anything, could I hear you sing more someday?

It's a very good thing. [She seems rather fond of the idea; a soft, serene smile drifts away as fast as it comes.]

There are many here that need those simple, beautiful things to make them happy.

I think everyone needs music. For me and all of us in 00. . . our song has always been something that's brought us courage. As long as we have it nothing can go wrong.

Yes! Anytime, I'm going to sing everyday while I'm here.

Is that truly how you see the use of such power?

I don't know, but I don't want to use magic on my singing.

Yes, see? And with a lovely voice like that, you should be able to kindle courage and happiness in others. We take the simplest things for granted.

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