The bad weather of that morning cleared up in the afternoon. Loret and his team, who had come to the theatre in the morning, asked permission to go to the Andrahar house. The orchestra had also just finished practice and Ellisandra realised that she had left some of her production notes at home, so it was a large and mixed group of people who walked from the theatre up the hill to the Endri quarter.
There was much talk and laughter, and somehow, she ended up walking next to Vayra. With a certain amount of dread she realised that she now had no excuse not to go with him to the house and look at those colours that he asked her about.
He and Loret were talking about a stonemason specialising in old-fashioned stone carving, and he’d also employed a panel-maker who constructed custom-made res
