The music should mask his words from eavesdroppers, but he lowered his voice anyway. Half a week! Feeling strangled, he put a finger behind the scarf knotted around his neck and tugged to ease it. gai'shain (GYE-shain): In the Old Tongue, Pledged to Peace in Battle is as close a translation as is possible. They shared it, as I recall.
Faster and faster, till he seemed to sprint from one to the next, yet all as precise as the movements of a clock. Of Taim, he was sure. For the view. We do not try to reach above our station, but skills are honed with time, and this was always nearly a Talent with me.
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