"What is he saying, Producer?"
"Eh... the best way to put it is that he's warning you against easing your stress, your boredom, your sadness with harmful diversions... ... sometimes you have to put on something random, that has nothing to do with what you were originally planning, in order to have an idea of the final product... ... and I'm doubting that I believe anything I'm saying right now." He crossed his arms and sighed. "The point is that what you're making needs to be a product of love for what you do. Because this is what you want to do. You're not doing it solely for the money, and maybe the idea of seeing your face and name in magazines and on the Internet seems nice, but... you do it for you. ... Never take me seriously, Yukiho."
"Hmm... well... that does sound right, I suppose..."
"If this is what you're going for, you can hardly be more blunt than this:
'Only you can destroy or save me
Two words will be enough'... and you can say 'I love you' in two words in Spanish.
'And I could wait until the entire sea evaporates
But you don't say anything else, oh no.'"
"That is something like what I wanted to express... something about having confidence in someone else, and sharing a true connection." Yukiho blushed a little and hid her face behind her hands, glancing to the side. "Uuu... it feels so weird, saying that out loud... I never thought I would...!"
"Then we go with something like that. ..."
"I only ever want to recreate the drums from "After the Flood".
"Ah, that other one you shared?"
"Yeah... well... let's see." He began to press some keys on the keyboard. "... no, this sounds okay."
"... I want to see if I can create the bassline... maybe that could help."
"Go ahead." He slid to the side. Yukiho then stepped over to the computer and looked over the lines and dials on the screen, and the graph of a sine wave. "Computers are amazing...!"
...
"With that... the drums should sound like this... but it will be all about your voice, first and foremost, Yukiho. That's what we like to hear, because it's a beautiful voice singing from the heart."
Yukiho blushed some more. "Th-that's what I strive for..."
"How cold is space?"
"I don't know. I'm a mechanical engineer. But this agency's music is like... most music. And most media. Creative license with science is the standard."
...
"... 'I believe in you'... and... 'I can go all the way'... 'like this'..." She wrote down the words on a piece of paper.
"Yes, of course the art is based off the cover of Power, Corruption & Lies. How could it not be?" read his line in the magazine.
"Well, now I can finally put to words what I wanted to say." He adjusted his scarf around his neck and placed his gloved hands into his jacket's pockets.
"What is it, Producer?"
"Today was a dark, cold, dreary winter day, what more can I say? I felt like nothing today, but then I remembered that I would be spending my time with you, and that you were here to stay."