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[Video Post]
[The image comes rising up out of the settling clouds of electric and electronic dust that seem to forever swirl around in the Network. Still, there isn't much to see--well, there's enough:

It's afternoon in the barn and the sunlight is streaming in as always, falling in golden beams that look more accustomed to adorning the insides of cathedrals more than the insides of barns. There are dust motes dancing in most of them and a few small birds go slipping through from shadow to shadow. There's darkness and hay and the raw wooden walls, and the sound of a horse breathing. The image shakes--or, rather, the device is shaken. Seems like it's been hung on a saddle again. It's quiet there--mostly. There's some soft sound in the background, rising a little...

If you know him by his shape or by his walk, it seems a certain Man is walking across the floor of the barn (stirring up more dust to dance in all that Baroque light) and towards the door--which he throws open to show the afternoon beyond the barn and all the fragile new grass and green budding things beyond. He stands in the doorway for a while, caught in silhouette unawares, looking out at the afternoon. He scratches his chin for no real reason.

And, all the while, in the background, this song is playing--quietly, almost dreamily, like someone's just fooling around with a guitar and the sound's drifting out from some open window somewhere... And yet, it persists...

After a moment or two, he turns around again and walks back to the Network device and the saddle on which it has been hung and the horse on which the saddle has been put. He comes up out of the shadow, almost taking shape out of it, and the music seems to follow, rising up again, taking on more shape itself.

And, at the last, he stands over the device itself, looking into it, realizing it's open and recording (as ever--nothing new there) and...he smiles at it, just as that music in the background reaches its crescendo...

...and he snaps it shut, throwing up those digital clouds of dust again, and sending the recording back into shadow and--]
[//video post ends]

[ooc: I'm going to inflict my Ennio Morricone obsession on you at every opportunity. Now, technically, this is a piece that's more associated with Angel Eyes than The Man, but...it's a really good piece. So I'm bending the rules. Also, for the record, at other points during the day, this song has also been playing. Especially when he's been riding around, doing stuff. Mmmm~]