... Wahaha, wow! I get lost in conversations sometimes, but this is a whole different kind of lost...!

[ yet he says this all pleased and not in a confused manner at all. it's like cole's told leo a joke that's particularly amusing instead, rather than pulled out a whole bunch of things that would make anyone ??????

maybe it's because leo likes weirdos. and cole is, certainly, a weirdo... even if his somewhat calming air wouldn't quite hint at that.

how the heck to navigate this... how the heck to describe pianos... he's not good at explaining things normally at all. ]

It's like... a big thingie with black and white keys, and depending on which key you touch, a pretty sound comes out! Ding or [ higher: ] diiing or [ lower: ] dong. Ah, though I guess they can be smaller... Technology's come a long way from the past! Aaand if we are adding keyboards in here, they can make a whole lot of other sounds besides regular piano sounds now, too--

[ brilliant. nailed it. moving on, ]

Anyway, you must be from way back when if you've got instruments but not pianos! What do the guys where you're from play on? You've gotta have... flutes and lyres, I'm guessing? Lithophones?

[ maybe too ancient there, leo ]