Backwards is exactly how we do it. You don't start with the building blocks. You start with what you want and move on from there.

[And then, well, Salieri's explanation... It's really something to listen to. Music theory isn't entirely Discord's thing, even if he has started to learn more about it. He's listening, maybe a little enthralled by the explanation...

before he just grins.]

Conducting reality. Now this I just have to see.

[He does sound genuinely excited about it. This... This could work. It's only a vague something right now, but really, isn't that where he tends to excel?]

Up and down on this merry-go-round
Worlds on an empty page we will write
Now we find it's the end of the line
Tuck this game in and kiss it good night

We perform, we rewrite the norm
And sing a song of--