Aurora Lyra · The Black Bond · Track 02 of 12
As You Wish, Cadet
“as you wish, cadet”
A duet built from cold formality and held resentment — the first beat of an enemies-to-lovers arc, scored as a march in 6/8.
Movement
Threshold
Length
3:15
Scene
Ch. 3
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Part of the twelve-track Aurora Lyra album, The Black Bond — Companion Album.
Full lyrics
“As You Wish, Cadet”
Intro
instrumental, ~15 sec on viola ostinato
Instrumental.
Verse 1
He said it like a courtesy
Like he had rehearsed the music of it in three years of silence
The first thing he said to me in the upper hall
Was a sentence five words long
And his eyes did not leave mine
Pre-Chorus
He said: "As you wish, cadet."
He said: "As you wish, cadet."
And the second time it landed like a knife under wool
Chorus
Five words and a hallway
Five words and the count we kept
He said it like he was offering me wine
He said it like he had not been waiting
Verse 2
I had pictured him in chains
I had pictured him in the colors I had given him
What I had not pictured was the calm
What I had not pictured was that he would say it twice
Pre-Chorus
He said: "As you wish, cadet."
He said: "As you wish, cadet."
And I did not answer, and I did not answer
And then I said, "Right."
Chorus
Five words and a hallway
Five words and the count we kept
He said it like he was offering me wine
He said it like he had not been waiting
Bridge
Three years and the language was intact
He had built it letter by letter in stone
A grammar of restraint
A weapon shaped like a vow
Final Chorus
Five words and a hallway
Five words and the count we kept
He said it like he was offering me wine
He said it like he had not been waiting
Five words and the count we kept
And the wool of it could not muffle what it cost
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The scene
Ch. 3 · First hostile interaction. The corrosive politeness of a war prince's hello.
The line the track turns on
“as you wish, cadet”
About the track
A duet built from cold formality and held resentment — the first beat of an enemies-to-lovers arc, scored as a march in 6/8.
The Black Bond is the first novel of The Skarn Reach, an Aurora Lyra romantasy. Every Aurora Lyra novel ships with a companion album — twelve original songs scored to the book’s emotional spine. This track is one of three in the Threshold movement.
The world before the bond. Five tracks moving through the rite, the cold formality, the loft, the bond's first leak through the partition.
All twelve tracks
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Twelve songs in three movements. Threshold. Storm. Cost. The album scored to the spine of The Black Bond.
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The Black Bond
She put him in a cage. Three years later, his dragon chose her.
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