ed gravely.

    t;You promised me an easy deat; Isolla said, raight.

    quot;I did,quot; Brandin said. quot;I did promise you t.quot; Dianora stopped breat Isolla  expression for ime.

    quot;You can ;  last, in a voice little above a w; you

    o make music for me again.”

    t ly ture o dismiss a servant or a petitioner.

    Isollas  smas from anding too near; ttered tumbled backures ing in to a formless, oozing pulp.

    t backed aumbling, almost falling in its e, t a s clumsy the singer.

    orted corso. Someto undulate from tump of Isollas srail of glistening black slime. Beh horror.

    quot;Stevan!quot; serror, an overically laboring Fool, clad exactly like ttle flew from h.

    quot;Music! Stevan! Music! Stevan!quot; Red obsessively, and iculation of t s up and doing brilliantly in treaming lig.  ing on to alks appeared to attacself like a bloodleeco his knee.

    quot;Music,quot; R time, softly, ed clarity. t in a puddle of blood beside tilated corpse of to one side, e-and-gold court garments  was broken.

    Dianora turned to Brandin. tionless, standing exactly as ,   t of ening detac.

    quot;t; ly, almost to  screaming and tumult t filled took one ant step to the dais.

    iture tures immediately disappeared, but not tiful, crumpled figure of to be alone near to  w had landed on her skin.

    People ripping and pusic e to quit t tling Camena di C to cover Isollas body. to move Ro do it;  seem to understand w was ill