Opening — Above Willow Root Gallery

Lex chose the root-side slope.
Austin chose the wider ground.
Aralynn followed one woven mark.
Aleea followed sound.

Verse 1 — Independent Descent

No group line tied their footsteps.
Each route kept turning room.
The woven flag passed hand to hand
and pointed toward bridge alcove.

Layered Refrain

Tap low, brush high, step and wait.
Build the beat beside the gate.
Hand, foot, cloth, and ground—
leave one place for a missing sound.

Verse 2 — The Missing Condition

Lex tapped the low rail once.
Aralynn brushed the flag.
Austin marked a steady step.
Aleea added none.

She watched the narrow middle space
where every beat crossed through.
The rhythm had sound and timing,
but no clear route-space cue.

Stop Chorus — Austin Chooses

Austin touched two fingers together.
The youngest voice chose stop.
Every hand and foot went still.
The layered rhythm dropped.

Two fingers meet; the whole beat waits.
No fixing fast, no filling space.
Hold the flag; hold every sound.
Stop means stop until we check the ground.

Bridge — The Map Becomes the Instrument

Aralynn spread the route cloth flat.
Lex placed one wooden marker.
Aleea opened the broad-turn gap.
Austin kept the stop sign there.

The woven flag became a sound line.
The route cloth became the drum.
Wood marked where the path began.
Open space marked room to turn.

They tapped the personal route sketch:
wood, cloth, pause, then wide.
No official map was made—
just the route they tried.

Verse 3 — Windmill Path

They followed the tested wide curve
to windmill path’s clear edge.
Lex held the wooden start mark.
Aralynn held the woven thread.

Austin opened his stop-sign hands.
Aleea kept the broad gap clear.
The map-instrument phrase waited
for one last sound to hear.

Ordinary-Sound Coda

Then an ordinary windmill-path latch
settled with one small click.
Wood—cloth—pause—wide—click.
The background finished it.

No-Reprise Release

No opening refrain came back.
The tested route stayed clear.