Ocn Mhln Rn Mpi

"Ocn Mhln Rn Mpi" ("The Race We Run") is the third track of the first act of The Lost Fairy, and the third track of the album overall.

This song features callbacks to Red River

## Performers

Psyche Chimere as "Han-Mi"

Lauren Osborn as "Symbel"

Liel Bar-Z as "Jane"

Oliver Marsh as "Jakob"

Paul Shapera as "William", "Raven" and "Lloyd Allen"

## Lyrics

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Jakob Jansson and his unit, the Cascadian Hellhounds, pursued the little fairy relentlessly as she fled blindly and aimlessly, lost in an alien human world, until at last, cornered and wounded, she gave up.

[SYMBEL:]

So this is how my story ends

Nothing solved just all loose ends

Without love, without a friend

All alone out here at worlds end

This is how my story ends

No-one mourns me when I'm dead

There's no eulogies instead

It's cold and mean with no tears shed

So this is how my story ends

With no clever last words said

Without love, without a friend

All alone out here at worlds end

[JANE:]

Take my hand and when you run, we’ll run together

Take my hand and when you go, we’ll go down together

Take me hand and when we hide, we’ll hide together

Take my hand and if you fall, we’ll fall down together

The race we run is frightening and at our backs they’re biting

The Hellhounds hunt and never slow

The race we run is frightening and for our lives we’re fighting

All along the blood stained road

The race we run is frightening, dizzying and blinding

The grief that pulls us down below

The race we run is frightening and guns that flash like lightning

So hold on tight and don't let go

[JAKOB:]

The Hellhounds come a riding

We bite like lightning and the race

We run is frightening

The Hellhounds come a riding

The sinners crying and the race

We run is frightening

[JANE:]

The race we run is frightening and at our backs they’re biting

The Hellhounds hunt and never slow

The race we run is frightening and for our lives we’re fighting

All along the blood stained road

The race we run is frightening, dizzying and blinding

The grief that pulls us down below

The race we run is frightening and guns that flash like lightning

So hold on tight and don't let go

[SYMBEL:]

Why have you come? The men with guns are hunting in a race of death

[JANE:]

I’ve come to find the fairies from poor Avalon that might be left

Others of your kind wait in a city that lies days away

And if I die it will not be before I get you there and safe

[SYMBEL:]

I’m tired and despair my race is run, I wish to lay and die

[JANE:]

I’ve felt like that and run that race once upon another time

And once upon that time another saved me who I cannot pay

But now I can atone and I’m prepared to die to keep you safe

[JAKOB:]

The hellhounds come a riding

We bite like lightning and the race

We run is frightening

The hellhounds come a riding

The sinners crying and the race

We run is frightening

[JANE:]

The race we run is frightening and at our backs they’re biting

The Hellhounds hunt and never slow

The race we run is frightening and for our lives we’re fighting

All along the blood stained road

The race we run is frightening, dizzying and blinding

The grief that pulls us down below

The race we run is frightening and guns that flash like lightning

So hold on tight and don't let go

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

The tech company Ablegeist held yearly parties that were the darling of the upper class business and social world for the city of Morefold. This year, they had renovated a large mansion, and there the rich and famous from across the continent had come to drink, network and gossip, unaware they were straight in the path of Jane, the fairy and the deadly unit hot on their trail.

[JANE:]

The race we run is frightening and at our backs they’re biting

The Hellhounds hunt and never slow

The race we run is frightening and for our lives we’re fighting

All along the blood stained road

The race we run is frightening, dizzying and blinding

The grief that pulls us down below

The race we run is frightening and guns that flash like lightning

So hold on tight and don't let go

[Han Mi:] *(spoken)*

They smashed through the mansion, Jane and the little fairy desperately fleeing, knocking over everything in their way, and the unit blasted their way through the party, destroying everything around them.

They fled into the cellar and fortunately, just after they closed the door, an old man leaned casually against it and shrugged when Jakob appeared moments later and asked which way they had gone.

[WILLIAM:] *(spoken)*

I haven't seen anything around here.

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Jane and the fairy hide from Jakob. Fortunately, Jakob’s unit didn’t think to check the cellar.

[JAKOB:] *(spoken)*

Check the cellar!

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Wait, what? Jakob’s unit, having lost Jane, leaves the party.

[JAKOB:] *(spoken)*

I bet my left nut they’re in the cellar. I can feel it. Come on, downstairs. Weapons up.

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

They don’t go down to the cellar.

[JAKOB:] *(spoken)*

Watch your step. Stay alert.

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

What’s that sound?

[RAVEN:] *(spoken)*

The narrative’s tearing.

[LLOYD:] *(spoken)*

You need to stop. It’s not working. You’re going to break the narrative. You can’t always just strong arm your way through.

[JAKOB:] *(spoken)*

I’ve got two heat signatures, southwest corner.

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Shit, what do I do?

[LLOYD:] *(spoken)*

You have a problem. The narrative does not want Jane safe. Finesse. Finesse.

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

With the men approaching, Jane spies a trapdoor leading to ancient tunnels beneath the mansion.

[LLOYD:] *(spoken)*

Really? Tunnels again?

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Hush. I'm under pressure and I can't think of anything else. Jane and the fairy quickly throw open the trapdoor and scramble down.

[LLOYD:] *(spoken)*

We did tunnels last time.

[RAVEN:] *(spoken)*

The dwarves.

[LLOYD:] *(spoken)*

The dwarves?

[RAVEN:] *(spoken)*

The dwarves are interesting. If Jane heads to the dwarves, the narrative will keep her safe until at least then, because it’s an interesting destination. You’re doing fine.

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Thanks. What if Jane doesn't go to the dwarves?

[LLOYD:] *(spoken)*

All right. Not bad. Test it out and see if you can’t nudge her there.

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

The tunnels under the mansion head off in a maze of directions. With no time to think, on a whim, Jane chooses a series of tunnels leading ever down, down ---

[RAVEN:] *(spoken)*

Down past the party and the countryside of the waking lands.

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Oh, that’s nice. Down past the party and the countryside of the waking lands, towards the dwarves far below.