Entertainment

Amrat Fort

The meal progressed well into the night. Food and wine flowed which in turn spurred on conversations and merriment. The leader of the Ilhara at different times during the evening, proposing toasts to his guests from the desert Septs, to some of his other guests and saving the most heartfelt and powerful speech to exalt Shalia Nix, Voice of Winter, Noraura Made Flesh, Frozen Fist of Koshnem and warsinger of the Odonine.

Music started to play. A group of men and women pranced around the courtyard entertaining guests, with melodic one string bowed fiddles, hand held drums and cymbals.

Shalia could not help but notice that although second class citizens still, women walked taller here among the Ihlara.

A large bald man dressed in leather walked towards the main table, holding two burning sticks, each as long as his muscular forearms, resembling smaller versions of torches.

He held one of the sticks in front of his face holding the gazes of the audience, before spewing a large tongue of fire into the air to a chorus sound of excited gasps and clapping.