short asynch Humpty Dumpty piece

Hmm... (live: 1s)[Who are you?] (live: 2s)[Have you been here before?] (if: $before is 2)[[yes]] [[no]]

How? (live: 1s)[How would you like to know?] (live: 2s)[How do you know?] When there's nothing but air between us here. Nothing but green below and brick beneath our feet. We are trapped you and I. We are nothing. [[yes->y1]] (if: $after is >=2)[[no->n1]]

That makes sense. I don't recognise you. (live: 2s)[Do you know why you're here?] (live: 3s)[Well?] (if: $before is 2)[[yes]] [[no->1]]

Of course not. (live: 1s)[You're like me] (live: 2s)[We live and breathe here up in the clouds] Do you believe in the insects that(text-style:"buoy")[ fall below] the(text-colour:#66d9e8)[ river?] The(text-colour:#74b816)[ frogs ]that (text-style:"sway")[flutter] their throats in the sky? The ravens that ate the (text-colour:#ffd8a8)[pie? ] (if: $before is 2)[[yes]] [[no->2]]

Well... (live: 1s)[You're a tough nut to crack] (live: 2s)[Would you like, then, to know how they became that way?] (if: $before is 2)[[yes]] [[no->3]]

Aha! (live: 1s)[You have no choice but to learn] (live: 2s)[To grow with the information I place upon you] (if: $before is 2)[[yes]] [[no->4]]

You are wordless. (live: 1s)[But with my words] (live: 2s)[Perhaps you can learn to speak again] (if: $before is 2)[[yes]] [[no->5]]

{(set: $before to it+1)} There was once an egg. (live: 1s)[A man made of egg] (live: 2s)[An egg made of man] (if: $before is <=1)[He sat beneath the clouds. Staring up at this world beyond his reach. It was too far for him to catch. He could not hold that world. Could not hold anything so beautiful.]{ }(if: $before is >=2)[He sat beneath the clouds. Staring up at this world beyond his reach. It was too far for him to catch. He was young in his youth. Small with limbs like sticks. He woke before dawn each day, smiling to his parents. But at some point, that had all faded. And he wound up on the wall. It was a punishment of sorts. For his revenge of their murders. A king who baked pies had them(text-style:"tall")[ (text-colour:#c92a2a)[killed.]] And in turn he did the same. In the end, it did not matter. He would not be able to live his life, caring for his parents, falling in love. He was sentenced to remain there. Forever.] (if: $before is 2)[[yes]] [[no->6]]

{(set: $before to it+1)} He sat for days (live: 1s)[Weeks.] (live: 2s)[Years.] (if: $before is >=2)[Before growing tired. Before growing sullen and unrepentant. He hated his solitude upon the wall. Forever bound. How then? Did he escape. Do you know?]{ }(if: $before is <=1)[He stayed there, forever. Until he was gone to the sands of time. Do you understand?] (if: $before is >=2)[[yes]] [[no->7]] (if: $after is >=2)[[I might->maybe]]

{(set: $after to it+1)} That is unfortunate. (live: 1s)[Do you then] (live: 2s)[Want to know the rest?] Voiceless one? (if: $before is >=2)[[yes]] [[no->8]]

{(set: $after to it+1)} Nothing. (live: 1s)[Nothing came after.] (live: 3s)[But Dust.] (if: $before is >=2)[[yes]] [[no-> 9]] (if: $after is >=2)[[That can't be the end->maybe]] [[but... dust.]]

Oh? (live: 1s)[You speak.] (live: 2s)[You have words.] Surely you have been able to speak this whole time? [[No, I haven't.]]

Yes (live: 1s)[That is the end] (live: 2s)[Too bad you have no words.] I was hoping I would at least be able to speak to one person upon this wall. (live: 4s)[Before I fall] [[no->10]]

(align:"=><=")[THE END]

We (live: 1s)[couldn't] (live: 2s)[be put together] (text-style:"shudder")[[[again->Start]]]

(live:1s)[Yes.] (live:2s)[We.] (live:3s)[Are.] (live: 5s)[You do not know what you're talking about. You're a fool. I have been here for so long. I know how the system works.] [[no->n2]]

{(set: $before to 0) (set: $after to 0)} [[Start]]

Hah. (live:1s)[You know nothing] You haven't even been here for as long as I have. (live:3s)[You are voiceless.] You cannot even// speak// to me. [[no->n3]]

So you acknowledge it then? [[no->n4]]

... (live: 2s)[What do you want then?] [[speak]]

(text-colour:blue)[[To set us free->10]]

Then, (live: 1s)[Why] (live: 2s)[Haven't you spoken before?] [[I had to listen to your story]]

[[I had to listen to everything you had to say]]

I see. (live: 1s)[Well?] (live: 2s)[What did you think of it?] [[It is...]]

[[Sad. But there is hope]]

How? [[Because]]

[[I wish for you to be free]]

[[Together, we can have you live your life.]]

[[//Our// Life]]

You... remember? [[Yes. It took me a while to piece it together... it's in fragments...]]

But you remember? [[yes-> yes1]] [[maybe -> maybe1]]

What does maybe mean, for you? Do you remember parts I don't? Do I only have half a story? [[We can find out]]

How? How can you remember? //What// can you remember? [[I can remember things you can't. You have been telling half of a story]]

How? How can we know? [[They could not put us back together again.]]

[[But we can -> And]]

[[Be free -> 10]]

(align:"=><=")[THE END]

Please, then with your voice tell me more [[We have already fallen. They have already tried to put us back together. They... couldn't get it right. So they put us back on the wall]]

Do you have something to say? Are are you simply repeating my words for your own? [[Some people grind up eggshells]]

What? [[To use in the soil in their gardens]]

I Don't know what you are trying to tell me [[The story may be over. But maybe something new can grow. -> ...]]

... ... ... maybe. [[maybe -> 10]]

... So my story already ended Only to begin again? this time, full of cracks and misfit pieces? [[yes-> new]]

.... [[We again have all the time. But this time, we don't have to wait in idle punishment]]

.... I think I understand Do you really think we'd hhave a chance? When all the kings men were unable? [[Of course.]]

Of course? [[No one knows us like us. -> 10]]