"Aww, we didn't even see him," says Ilisaba.

"We came to see Rabiah," says Yahia.

"Yeah, I know..."

They only missed him by a couple hours! He goes and finds Rabiah because he wants to show her a new song.

"Ooh, a new song, what's it about?"

"It's about a rich and powerful man who dies and can't get any women in Axis."

"Now why would that happen?"

"He is fat, unpleasant, and talentless!"

"Are fat people still fat when they're dead? I never thought about that, I guess..."

"I have no idea! I didn't seen any fat people in Axis but then most people aren't fat and Aktun's a prestigious part of Axis."

"I guess songs don't have to be perfectly accurate anyway. How's it go?"

So he sings his song. It's very silly and has a lot of wordplay and the tune's awfully catchy.

She laughs very softly and leans across his lap.

"Think people will like it?"

"I bet fat talentless unpleasant people won't but that's probably fine, right?"

"That'll make it more popular with everyone else, I hope."

"Then I think they will like it."

"Oh good. 

I put ones like this out secretly so I can see how people actually like it, not knowing it's me. I pay a couple people to play them in a tavern, say they heard them in another city."

"Did you write the one about the paladin who rode a rhinoceros?"

"Maybe." He starts singing it.

She knows a harmony to the rhino paladin song and chimes right in.

Rabiah's life is GREAT.

"I heard your family visited?"

"Yeah. Well, two of them. Ilisaba was sorry she missed you."

"Did she go to the concerts with you?"

"We could only afford the one ticket but she made me sing her everything after."