[pan-network text]

[singthesong]

Does anybody want guitar lessons? Or ukelele, banjo, or piano lessons? Discounts for rifties!

[They might actually just be entirely free, because the Balladeer's enthusiasm far outweighs his money sense.]

You can play with this too, but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners.

[See attached picture. His enthusiasm FAR outweighs his money sense.]

Comments

[singthesong]

Sure! We're all in the same boat

[postictal]

i mean i can pay you just not a whole lot. lifes been kind of hectic for me lately

[singthesong]

All the more reason not to worry about it. I know how that is

[Though possibly not to the extent Tim does.]

Are you new around here?

[postictal]

not really

been here about two months i think. are you?

[singthesong]

About the same! I got here early August.

[postictal]

me too
mid-august i guess

not really a musician but i have a ukulele. all self-taught. was thinking maybe of learning how to actually read music or something

[singthesong]

I could help you with that

[He was never taught. HE IS AS HE IS]

[postictal]

i might take you up on that
i've wanted to learn for a while

i'm tim

[singthesong]

I'm the Balladeer

That's actually my name, not some kind of weird music-teaching pseudonym

[god, wouldn't that be pretentious]

[postictal]

uh huh

[He's got more than a few reasons to be wary of 'noun-er names prefaced with an ominous the' but then, he doubts anything truly insidious would waste its time learning how to text.

...or maybe it would. His latest run-in with the unthinkable has definitely upped his paranoia.]

kind of a weird question but i've had some bad experiences with this sort of thing so
any chance you could confirm that you're like
human

[singthesong]

[...do humans normally spring fully-formed out of nowhere to wander through time as an extremely specific musical harbinger of death?

He'll just go with a loose definition. He feels human!]

Sure

[See attached selfie]

[postictal]

ok thanks
weird i know but i had to ask

[Picture's good enough. He's got none of the textbook totheark signifiers - and the thought lurches sickeningly in his gut.]

all right i'm interested

[singthesong]

Great! When do you want to start?

[postictal]

my work schedule's pretty flexible so i'm open this entire week
any day work in particular for you?

[singthesong]

I busk in the park, so I'm always free
Sunday?

[postictal]

sure
where and what time

[singthesong]

Two? You can just come to my place.

[Here is the address! It's in the same building as Greta and, let's face it, half the riftie population.]

[postictal]

[The text indicator flickers hesitantly before he taps out a response.]

yeah alright
thanks

i can pay

[singthesong]

If you want

[People are weird about money]