"Your Highness, yesterday was the premiere of maestro Larzio's opera. The event was… not everything we might h
"Your Highness, yesterday was the premiere of maestro Larzio's opera. The event was… not everything we might have hoped. Much of the audience left after the first act. The critics lambasted the author — both for 'ill taste' and 'subservience before the powers that be'." The Storyteller falls silent, his bony fingers fumbling with his sleeve. "However..."
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