Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

they wanted. It was a lot of oil and bread, some shellfish,olives with every meal, and bell peppers. There were othervegetables a couple times a week, and tonight, goat that waschopped and marinated. They folded it in pancakes of thechewy bread along with the vegetables and a creamy sauce.The peppers were baked with a shellfish and bread crumbstuffing. There were plenty of spices on everything andchunky sea salt to put over it.The noise level alone told her it was a special day. Shehad noticed the noise a week ago, but it was centered at adifferent table. This week it was here, and much higher thanthe week before. There was teasing from nearby tables andoccasional shrieks from anywhere in the room.“So what happens at this ceremony?” Ava asked as theyclimbed back up to their rooms after dinner.“You didn’t go down and watch it last week?” Yellelleasked, a little taken aback.“I didn’t know what was going on. There were severalevenings when Imada and Ietana invited me to go with themafter dinner. Once we went back down to the dining room andchatted, I couldn’t get a lot out of that. Another time we wentand watched a guy with a set of pan pipes who accompanied aguy who had a pretty good voice, but he sang bawdy songsthat I couldn’t understand. For one who’s music often comesfrom the Zhlindu tower scene, that was a bit thin. So the thirdtime they invited me, I said no. I had no idea what was going438