[055] - [Voice]

[Mitsuhide is playing his shamisen as he makes the voice post; it's a simple, gentle tune, and his own voice is just as gentle to match.]

So we were saved by the hands of a man on a stringed instrument... I cannot call that odd. I have been saved several times by a man playing his instrument, though in a very different manner, of course. [He laughs quietly.] It is good that we know some kind of peace again.

[The pace of his playing quickens a little.]

We have been gifted with the the sky again too. The sight of the ocean surface. The feeling of the wind on our faces. This new island is odd, and there are many unsettling things about it, but right now I cannot know less than joy at it becoming available to us. It is amazing, that such simple things can lighten my heart so. I find myself wishing that-

[Mitsuhide fumbles his playing then; he pauses mid-sentence to sigh, and starts over.]

I thought I had that one mastered...