A Hundred Days Gone Soft is an original song from the TrueDark Rising world. It reflects the era of Selcar -- the Keeper of Trade -- when markets, coinage, valuation, and the art of desire were first introduced to the Kinsfolk.
The song belongs to a time when rest itself became the trap. Selcar did not demand blood or worship. He offered painted wheels, morning cloth, and gifts laid out in careful rows. Stay a while, the road can wait. Nothing here is sealed by fate. The refrain strokes pride and stokes greed with a smile -- Selcar has just what you need.
Yet the count verse reveals the quiet devastation. A hundred days have come and passed, soft and thin as worn-out twine. No one hurried. No one asked. The Kinsfolk were still when they should have been moving -- and that is the part they did not know. Unlike the other Keepers, Selcar took nothing from their hands. He only took time they did not plan to spend. Like many songs born of Keeper encounters, A Hundred Days Gone Soft preserves both the gift and the cost. It remembers the ease gained -- and the days that slipped away.
Like all songs of this world, it serves as memory. It is meant to be sung slowly, and understood fully only in hindsight.