Interlude: Piano Concours with Liszt (2)

One sheet of music after another.

With every page she turned, Giselle's pupils shook violently.

'What on earth...?'

A groan that never quite escaped her lips circled the inside of Giselle's throat.

As a long-lived race, as an elf,

she had lived through ages and seen countless scores.

From humans' crude folk songs.

to noble, beautiful melodies passed down under the blessing of the World Tree.

In fact, though almost no one knew it.

only she understood that the motif of 'Für Elise,' which had recently swept through the music world, came from a very old oral folk song...