Calamity. Catastophe! This has never happened--in all Estune time, this has never happened, and I cannot understand why it should happen now. Standing where I am I can feel that things were as they should have been--that this, whatever it was, can only be described as an attack on the natural order--but I get ahead of myself.

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The basilec isn't one of those every-note-perfect, every-modulation-precise singers you may have seen in courts around the world. There's nothing elegant about his style of singing. He just throws back his head and lets the song bellow out from somewhere deep in his chest, like a volcano just bellows out ash and smoke and lava or a wind fountain ( Read more... )