[The Dreamberry clicks on to the sound of footsteps on a creaking ladder. And someone reciting... nursery rhymes?
[Cain is ascending into the attic. He's not aware that he's dropped his phone to the floor or that it's subsequently recording]
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and
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My lord, why didn't you inform me that your shoelaces had loosened, I would have retied them for you?
I will be there shortly.
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I didn't see the urgency. Poor timing on the part of the shoe.
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It's quite all right, I had already finished what I was doing. I was actually coming to check on you.
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Are you coming to save me from falling? [Just like Humpty Dumpty, of course. With a happier ending]
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I'm sorry?
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And you were acquainted? [Cain looks amused]
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Quite a gruesome ending for a child's nursery rhyme, isn't it?
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They have tragic ends, often enough.
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[Cain conceded, turning his cheek away from the phone, though still addressing it] The sound of the rhyme is pleasant and catchy. I suppose that's it.
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