An empty wooden dance floor filled the middle of the cavern. Flames leaped and crackled from squat claw-footed metal pots circling that space.
On either side of the dance floor, dining tables with white cloths and elaborate place settings stretched to the cavern walls. Men in tuxedos and women in evening gowns occupied every chair at every table he could see. All wore animal-head masks that covered their faces except for their mouths, and he thought once again of the Sword Ladies and his mysterious Watchers in Dream.
Still flanked by the guards in front and behind, Will and Link descended the stairs and onto the dance floor. The guards led them to the far end of the room where red curtains hung against the cavern wall behind a raised platform. Four musicians, dressed as medieval minstrel
