A co-presentation of WNYC Studios and Night Fail presents.

You are listening to the orbiting human circus of the air. The We find our janitor quietly descending the stairs at the

Ival Tower. He's heard footsteps below, but they've suddenly stopped, and the janitor thinks he knows where.

He quietly tiptoes down to the spot.

It's the landing where Coco always left the key for the ticket booth clerk and there's somebody there now

But his heart falls because he senses it is not Coco but then his heart begins to beat more quickly in his chest and

unable to help himself he peaks just a tiny bit around the corner. The ticket booth clerk is there. The other young man is feeling beneath the

banister, like someone who doesn't at all expect to find what he is looking

for. And the janitor catches a brief glimpse of his

eyes and he forgets to breathe. But suddenly the ticket booth clerk turns and begins climbing towards him.

The janitor backs up the stairs trying to keep ahead of the clerk. The janitor reaches

the door to the observation deck, passing through he ducks into the shadows beside it.

The ticket booth clerk emerges, and the janitor watches his silhouette disappear as it goes past. He's heading towards Eiffel's apartment. But the

janitor stays behind and hides. And in truth, he hides now, not because he is afraid of being seen but because like all of us

he is afraid of not being seen and finding that to the other person, he does not exist.

The ticket booth clerk has stopped at the door of Eiffel's apartment.

He tries the handle and of course it's locked. He looks in the apartment's

circular window and as he does the janitor can't help but come out of the shadows and watch.

The ticket booth clerk was looking at the apartment as the and goodbye. It seemed those evenings alone playing in Eiffel's apartment meant as much to the ticket booth clerk as they did to the janitor.

And the janitor remembers the conversation he'd overheard between Coco and the ticket booth clerk. The two had been saying that

had been saying that music was one of the few things that had the power

to make everything right.

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