Black Claw: Bound by Fate
It tasted of burnt turnip and something gamey, but it was hot, and Elena nearly wept as she drank.
When the bowls were empty, Nana snapped her fingers. The crowd shifted, and someone produced a battered harmonica, another a set of scavenged bones, strung with wire to make a sort of xylophone. As if rehearsed, the music began—strange and wavering, too slow for dance, but enough to carry the hollow dark away from the ring of the fire.
Elena realized it had been months since she’d heard anything like music, except for the remembered pulse of blood in her ears. She turned to Damon, who was already watching her, his eyes soft and alert, his lips quirked into a half-smile.
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