Subject: The Music of SOM167168
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Posted on: 2022-04-28 23:22:39 UTC

Noman stepped out of the bathroom, having finally scraped the last of the glitter off of his body and clothes. (The terrible thing about Mary Sue glitter is that, just like real glitter, it gets stuck everywhere, in places unknown and unfathomable to common, decent pollutants.) Shaking himself off, he wandered about the RC, noticing Winfrey bobbing her head and chirping along to something. She was doing a pretty decent job, making long whistling calls and trills easily as she spun a screwdriver in one hand, holding a glass of mixed Bleepka and orange juice in the other.

Noman sat down next to Winfrey, and she turned to face him, placing her screwdriver in a drawer and taking a long sip of her drink, which was confusingly also called a screwdriver.

"What're you singing?" Noman asked, unfamiliar.

"Tintin On The Moon, sorta," Winfrey said back, "hard to get the Noisemaker's mix down while chirping it."

"I saw a poster for some sorta... music festival, from out and around HQ."

"Oh, should we go?" Winfrey asked, "I'm a pretty good singer."

"Well, last time, someone messed with the sheet music and replaced it with the Brown Note. But hey, I'll pack some fresh pants and a shower-in-a-can just in case."

Winfrey winced and spluttered, ending her chirping performance. Noman casually noted Chrysostom's 11th Discourse opened on Winfrey's tablet computer, alongside her music playlist. He tipped his head at her.

"Huh. X-CEED's Flip-Flap next to Poor Man's Poison's Providence? Next to an hour of Bach, Handel, and Shostakovich?"

"Like you are one to talk about weird music taste! Ready To Die has no business being in the same playlist as Glorious Morning!"

"You're reading fanfic right now about how..." Noman squinted (baffling Winfrey, as Noman lacked eyes to squint with) at Winfrey's notes "...Hector survived the Trojan War, and how Troy won the war in truth?"

"I-It's not fanfiction, it's a historical debate!"

Noman casually turned to face the reader, leaving Winfrey utterly baffled.

"You know, I think we've drifted off course," he said.

"Who are you talking to?"

"You'll get it, later."

Winfrey sighed, clearing her throat again as she began to try and sing once more. This time, just to spite Noman, she was singing the opening theme to Barney & Friends.

His screams brought her some small comfort.

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