— how many have you got left?

Two.

And then Priya put her headphones back in, which was correct,
and the two happened in a silence I had not agreed to.

That is the whole of it. Somebody asked a real question,
got a real answer, and did not stay for the performance.
I did the two anyway. Nobody saw them. They counted exactly the same.

The Book of the Bard — Grind 52:3