Chapter 28
A plan was forming. Ben sat in the meetings with the others but he was barely there. It was hard to focus in this city full of sad and terrifying music. More and more he felt that he was in a different world than his friends and companions. While they could laugh and joke, get some respite after a difficult day, he always lived in the sorrow, bombarded by the emotions of people he passed on the street. An old man with a lonely song. A woman full of fear. He shrunk from it but could not stop listening.
When he could get away from the little house, he walked to the stadium where the prisoners were and slowly circled it, listening to the haunting music of the people inside. Sometimes he heard a strain of music that was full of despair, and he asked Keethior to fly in and soothe t
