In the dimly lit catacombs of Anthesteria, El Mariachi Muerte sits, gazing over the resting place of La Mariachi Vida.
Muerte draws a deep sorrow-filled breath as he begins to play.
♪ I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that’s real ♪
“You worked so hard to live out your calling. You played your song, and the people listened.”
“The whole of Arcadia knew your song. I intimately know your legacy. For it is your legacy that calls out to the strings of my guitar.”
He looks towards Vida’s guitar, displayed in her shrine.
“I lost her, I let her go. I let her down. Ours is a song of tragedy and loss. I feel the hurt of that loss in every note I sing.”
♪ What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt ♪
“You worked so hard to live out your calling, Redgrave.”
“It’s not Vida’s legacy I speak of, but yours. I have seen your empire been built on the souls of those chosen to adorn your gallery. Intimately, I know of your legacy. For their songs are played on the strings of my guitar.”
“But you feel no sorrow for them. No remorse. You do not hurt, as I hurt. You do not lament, as I sing. To you, death has no meaning. It carries with it no loss.”
“For it is love that allows us to grieve, through love do we chisel the songs of our cherished onto our heart. Her name lives on chiselled in stone on my heart, her legacy lives on through my song… She is my empire of stone, and I will fight to get her back.”
“But you, Jasper Redgrave, are incapable of love. You build your empire of dirt, not stone. That is your song.”
“A song of horror, not tragedy. Arcadia fears it… for now.”
“But everything goes away in the end. Empires crumble before our very eyes. Hatred breeds hatred, mi amigo, and la vida engendra vida”
“Your empire is waiting the fall, and the closer you get to CJ Thorpe, the harder it will fall.”
“What will you have left then, Jasper?”
♪ If I could start again
A million miles away
I will keep myself
I would find a way ♪
“I have made my alliances, allowing me to start again. Rebuild what I have lost. You, Redgrave, lack the heart to rebuild what you will lose when the Uprising crumbles. When brotherly love proves too strong for your poisonous influence.”
“Even Zeus’s protection will run dry eventually.”
“And you’ll be left with nothing but hurt. Because only then will you truly know what it means to feel loss, and you are not prepared, mi amigo.”
“My notes cut deeper than your blade ever could, for as much pain as you cause your victims, I will do what they could not. I will make you feel… I will make you hurt.”