Chapter 27
It goes without saying that all the musicians have been rehearsing for several weeks in preparation for Lord Matsuda’s banquet to celebrate the arrival of New Year’s Day. But there is such a thing as over-rehearsing so that was why they have taken a well-earned break the week before the grand event. Which was why the rehearsal chambers were relatively quiet for once. Which was why Aryah was simply enjoying the cool morning breeze in the covered pavilion where she would often privately practice. Without her harp. “Why don’t you tell me something about yourself? Like your childhood?” Aryah was sitting on the carved wooden balustrade, her feet idly dangling a few feet above the garden pond above which the pavilion was
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