Amrothos sat at his father's ornately carved fortepiano, and pressed one key after another to listen to the tiny metallic hammers hit strings deep within the mysterious wooden songbird. Beside him was a daily dispatch, written in that heavy scribe's hand that marked all the gossip newspapers. Amrothos Swanhelm makes his first public appearance after Umbar, the large header said.
( a reckoning. )
( a reckoning. )