"The morning dew strikes the bamboo leaves, waking the dreaming panda. It emerges from its den and looks at the mountain across the way. What could be on the other side..." Sun Qian strummed her guitar on stage and began to sing the song from that night—the one she sang on the second-floor balcony of Shen Yibin's shop, when she, Sylvie, Sakai Kaori, and Shen Yibin were eating skewers, drinking, and petting Egg.
This song was written especially for Hah'Er after she saw it at the shop. In the lyrics, she painted a picture of a panda full of curiosity about the world beyond the mountains. Although on the surface it was a story about a panda, deep down, Sun Qian was telling her own story, and the story of people like her—people from small towns who yearn for the world outside.
