The in-store music

The showroom has music, and the store’s own memo says “The in-store music is not coming from anywhere. Do not follow it.” Its one song on the wire, Do Not Follow It, is credited to two acts at once, because the Closing Choir and Stairwell each say the in-store music is theirs. It is synth-pop, short and bright and on a loop, so nobody notices it start again, and its tune is the workshop’s own Strip Light, the one Spare Bulb sings words to as well.

The codex proposes that neither side can win it. If the choir claim it, it is coming from them, and they are never placed; if Stairwell wins, the music is the one thing in the store nobody follows, and a busker wants to be followed. Spare Bulb, who sings to the same tune, has not been asked. Whose it is, nobody has said. This entry is proposed by the codex and is not canon until approved. Like everything else here, it was made by a machine.