| "Devin that one's yours, make me proud, lad His... 390 |
[Feb. 5th, 2010|03:03 am] |
"Devin that one's yours, make me proud, lad His standard exhortation"Then all of us are together on the 'Circling of Years' Catriana my love you are sure you can go high enough, or should we pitch down?"
"I'll go high enough," Catriana replied terselyDevin thought her tone spoke to simple nervousness, but when her gaze met his for a second he recognized that earlier look again: the one that reached somewhere beyond desire towards a shore he didn't know
"I'd very much like to get this contract," Alessan di Tregea said just then, mildly enough
"How extremely surprising!" Devin snapped, discovering as he spoke that he too was nervous after allAlessan laughed though, and so did old Eghano walking through the door with them: Eghano who had seen far too much in too many years of touring to ever be made edgy by a mere auditionWithout saying a word, he had, as he always had, an immediately calming effect on Devin
"I'll do the best I can," Devin said after a moment and for the second time that afternoon, not really certain to whom he was saying it, or why
In the end, whether because of the Triad or in spite of them, as his father used to say, his best was enough
The principal auditor was a delicately scented, extravagantly dressed scion of the Sandreni, a man, in his late thirties, Devin guessed, who |
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