She's entirely graceful about being interrupted from her ancient sheet music when they return to her office.  "Which one - " Dira nudges her arm and they have a brief conversation.  "So the general premise of the show is that this person gets transported into a book that she's reading, but then it turns out that real people can't live for very long in books, because of - actually never mind, we don't need to get into that just now.  But she tries to avoid becoming a book person because then she couldn't go back to the real world, but then she's going to die if she doesn't, but they sometimes have resurrection in the book world, so she decides to - hm."  Cretari Cretari.  "If you didn't already see the end I'm not going to spoil it for you now, you should just go see the whole thing or let us do the table read thing or whatever."

Nod nod. My guess was that it was about aging.

"Oh, no, it's a newer show."

It could have been set in the past.

Colley accents her handwibble by using it to play a trill on her instrument.  "Ten years ago maybe, but it's not in fashion right now."

Dira interjects!

"Okay the original book was a little bit about that but Liva derails things before it gets to that, and also the original book is much less popular."

Kyeo mimes a book curiously.

"I wouldn't bother with it personally.  Dira would tell you differently but since he doesn't have your language yet I'm telling you it's not worth your time."

Eyeroll.

Shrug, nod.

"Anyways, I've learned the rest of these songs; do you recognize any?"  She plays snippets of each.

One of them gets a handwobble but then he shakes his head.

"Does this one sound similar to a different song you know?"

Nod nod.

Here is the setrekbort!!  Here are its mallets!

He will attempt to pick out the reminiscent piece by ear, though he has a lot of stops and starts.

Colley writes the confident bits in the new-to-her notation and elbows Dira into taking it down in the Citreliac one.

It does have a bit of a lick in the middle that resembles part of what she was demonstrating but it's not obviously a derivative song.

Colley hums an improvised mashup of the two while she finishes writing, then demonstrates the rest of the set.

Kyeo claps when she's done.

" - Thank you!  You're very sweet."

It was good!

"Well, it's only because of you that I could read it."  She clicks her tongue thoughtfully.  "I suppose I should probably write up my findings now for the historical society.  They said they should be able to get me copies of other ancient sheet music; maybe you'll recognize some of the surviving pieces from other composers."

Nod nod. Or Sarham.