Raised to Kill: Kindred Tales 32 by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evangeline Anderson Books
Published: 2021-02-26T18:30:00+00:00

Twenty-One

The rest of the Holding Week went extremely well as far as Brand could tell. He and Allara fell into a routine that was as pleasurable as it was regular.

In the morning, he and Allara got up and made breakfast together. She had insisted she wanted to learn to cook using the Kindred kitchen appliances—which were much more advanced than the ones the Q’ess used, apparently—and so Brand was teaching her.

After breakfast, they washed dishes together and got ready to go out. Selena, Allara’s teacher, was on an extended vacation from her job on Earth and had agreed to work with her daily. So, to Allara’s utter joy, she got to have music lessons for two hours every single day—though Selena swore she didn’t teach her much of anything.

“I just play a song on an instrument—any instrument—once, and she copies me perfectly,” she’d told Brand. “She’s even mastered the violin, now. She’ll be better than me before I know it.”

“She’s certainly extremely talented,” Brand agreed. “I’ve been trying to talk her into some kind of career in music but her culture teaches that a female’s place is in the home.”

“Ugh, what a shame.” Selena shook her head as they watched Allara on the cello. She was playing a piece that Selena had taught her just that day—Cello Suite Number 1 in G Major by Bach—and though the cello was almost as big as she was, she was executing it flawlessly.

“With talent like hers, she ought to be performing,” Brand remarked. “She’s playing that beautifully,” he added in admiration.

“She likes the cello a lot—almost as much as the French Horn,” Selena told him. “Says both of them remind her of your ‘Song’—by which I think she means your singing voice.”

“Yes, I think that’s what that means.” Brand nodded. He frowned thoughtfully. “I never thought about my voice sounding like any kind of instrument, though.”

“Well, Allara certainly has—she talks about it all the time.” Selena smiled. “Do you know she has perfect pitch? Now that I’ve finally gotten her reading music—which didn’t take her long—she can tell me any note I’m playing or singing at any given time on any given instrument.”

“No, I didn’t know that.” Brand shook his head, looking at his new wife in admiration. Allara had so much potential wrapped up in such a small package! “I only know that when she hears a note she likes she calls it a ‘true’ note,” he added.

“Oh, that’s her way of saying if something’s on key or not.” Selena laughed. “And you better believe she’ll let you know if you’re sharp or flat—it actually seems to hurt her when someone hits a sour note.”

“I noticed that at our wedding reception,” Brand remarked. “When that tone-deaf female began singing off-key, Allara got absolutely ill.” He frowned. “And she said the female was one of the ‘Voiceless ones’. Do you know what that means?”

“Yes, she mentioned something like that to me as well,” Selena said. “I think that’s what they call tone-deaf people on her planet.

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