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caper_estKiller-Kate and Luke Lackland: 910 words. Mostly Okay Genius makes his move. My heroes aren't the only people who can play "Let's You and Him Fight!" without saying a word or copping the blame. Also, he is better at it than they are.
The World on Maltby Edge, I now discover, is sung to a traditional tune called Riding over Alland. Which figures. The highly-coloured imagery seems to be inspired by it, too. Words of that version keep intruding on my day, but I am resisting them, because I am quite earwormed enough already without encouraging it any further, and also because I suspect the totality of those lyrics would be of small interest to anybody but some future Northdales equivalent of Cecil Sharp.
I know that Riding over Alland is itself only a slight modification of some real and stirring tune in this world - I'm a non-musician and couldn't possibly compose anything half that good offhand on my morning commute, or most likely ever - but however irritatingly familiar it is, I can't quite put my finger on where I've nicked it from.
