Light on The Sound (v1.0) by Unknown Author

Author:Unknown Author
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

Eih! Asheveráin

am-plánzhet ka dhand-erúden

eihl Eskrendaí

pu eyáh chítarans hyemadh …

Davaryush translated it to himself, in the lowspeech of his boyhood on a planet long since annihilated: “Ai! At the Dispersal of Man we wept for the dead earth, we cried out, ‘Where is the homeworld of the heart?’ ”

“Where indeed?” Ynyoldeh said, startling him. He had been drawn to the simplicity of Sajit’s performance; he did not embellish the ancient melody at all, but sang it rather as a child might, wondering to himself why the universe was such an ugly place, such an unjust place… . “No wonder,” said Ynyoldeh, “they need utopias. The poor poor people.”

Sajit’s face rippled as the clouds were towed slowly across the simulated sky. Was Ynyoldeh really compassionate, beneath the image of brutality she projected? Or else why would she have been chosen to be Inquestor?

“I know what you’re thinking,” Ynyoldeh said, “Daavye dear. You think I’m softening, don’t you? Well, compassion rules all my thoughts”—quickly Davaryush stifled all his thoughts, reminding himself of the Queen of Daggers’ threat that the servocorpse incorporated a mindhearing device—“and the answer is still no. Although I give you the option of lying to the others, if you like, and going through with your bluff anyway. But if that is what you intended, you would not have needed to ask me for the weapons around Gallendys…. I’m warning you, Ton Davaryush z Galléndaran K’Ning! The Inquest does not trust you!”

All for nothing, Davaryush thought. He pretended to be listening to the music. Alter a while the fang vapor and the music itself drove him into a stupor of self-pity, carefully masked*

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