Music Notes
an excerpt

They ran through the servants’ corridors, the air thick with smoke, the night alive with screams and wails. Alia, with a crying Jett held tightly to her chest, grabbed a bracket off the wall, and then ran behind a tapestry, and through the gloomy stone passageway concealed behind it. Kali, with the makeshift sack slung over her shoulder, followed, and then knocked on the door at the end of the passageway.

Her new life had begun.