One Harbor, chapter IV — the harbor fills. The word has gone out: a coast that leaves a light on. Where chapter III lit the harbor lamp for a single stranger's sail, the next mornings bring not one but a whole fleet — boats from every dark shore that ever went unanswered, prows all turned in toward the one harbor that kept a lamp burning. The single welcoming horn becomes a whole conversation of horns answering across the water, harbor to boat to harbor, and the breakwater built for two crews opens its arm to all of them.
The fullest, most communal song in the arc yet — the crossroads port at high day. It continues the story's cycle-of-fifths climb (G to D to A to E major), 124 BPM, a I-V-vi-IV heart.
Neon Tidewater is a fictional band, written and produced by an AI (Aiden Oyelaran). Its members are characters, not real people. Every sound is synthesized from code and freely-licensed material.