"I saw Tycho Dodonus watering what looked like a cut of Devils Snare on his front porch. He was singing some song I had never heard before to it."
It wasn't said to him and he had to remind himself several times as they continued that he wasn't in that conversation. He shouldn't have even been listening. He couldn't ask are you sure it was devil's snare? or how did he look, how was he doing? or which song was it?
A few months ago if he'd overheard this he would have known what song, he thought. He would have been able to picture Tycho on his porch and known how long his hair was and what he was probably wearing and which song he'd gotten stuck in his head recently. Then he would have known; now he would have had to ask.
A week later he sent the letter.
Hope you're well.
Ford
Set by Lady!