[ naw, sense motive works. It's ridiculously easy for her to read him, apparently: to see both the difference between the way he sang this song last time, and to register the alterations in him since the other day on the bridge. There's still a heavy burden of loss coloring his demeanor, but he doesn't come off as entirely stifled by it, and though he sings of leaving this world behind to join her, it's without the previous desperate edge that made him seem ready to abandon absolutely everything else in this world for that chance. There's that usual sense of reverence with which he always sings or speaks about jade, but there's something in his delivery that also reads as a hesitant, but real, goodbye.
When he finishes, there's a beat, and then the elvish music comes up again quietly, and the priest makes motions for Rafael and anyone else who is acting as pall bearer to come forward to loft the casket. ...which I forgot to figure out with y'all, so whoever wants to help is free to assume they've been asked and briefed on the score. ]
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When he finishes, there's a beat, and then the elvish music comes up again quietly, and the priest makes motions for Rafael and anyone else who is acting as pall bearer to come forward to loft the casket. ...which I forgot to figure out with y'all, so whoever wants to help is free to assume they've been asked and briefed on the score. ]