[the SQUIP turns to face Sissi, and as it starts to listen, Salieri could almost swear he can see the connection form between the two of them, fragile and tentative but there, the music winding and spinning, reaching out--]

--another repetition, Madame Elisabeth, and then...[Salieri half closes his eyes, focusing on his hearing now, listening to the music, how it ebs and flows, finding just the right spot to gently push--] --a simple variation, if you would; where it leads up to the final cadence of the second line, where it falls instead make it rise--when the SQUIP follows, then you can move onto the next variation with more complexity and guide it--