#the piper isone of my favorite season one tma episodes so the second i heard this line i just went !!!!!

[i-am-not-a-who-i-am-a-what]

i've seen plenty of people bring up grifter's bone comparisons with this episode, and i agree with them wholeheartedly, but even before that part of the letter a line popped out at me as very similar to another slaughter statement...

I watched with growing unease as shadows danced upon the walls of his thoughts, their forms and nature hidden to me, save for what I overheard him utter beneath his breath, barely perceptible to the ear. At moments, it seemed almost as if he were listening to some far away music, though my instrument lay quiet beside me.

from TMAGP 04, Taking Notes

Were I prone to flights of fancy, I daresay I would call his words portentous. When he talked like that, he had an odd habit of trailing off in the middle of the conversation with a tilt of his head, as though his attention had been taken by a far-off sound.

from MAG 007, The Piper