"without hesitation, as if a barrier had collapsed within his mind, he vented a plethora of unfamiliar words. they seemed to roll off his tongue, however, as if he had been repeating the phrase his entire life: 'while you're doing fine, there's some people and i, who have a really tough time getting through this life, so excuse us while we...'" in which two boys with antithetical perspectives of life are profundly bound by the ring of a piano key, the beat of a drum, and the silence of the trees. they are each others' keys to unlocking their true purposes; they just don't know it yet.