THE SUBSTITUTE MATE FOR THE ALPHA KING
Of the idiot who argued with the Lawgiver, who complained about porridge, who wouldn't be simplified.
He looked down at the knot in his hand. He closed his fingers around it.
And from within the absolute silence, a sound emerged. Not from his recorder. From *him*. A tiny, breathy, almost inaudible hum. It was the first three notes of the "Cobbler's Jig."
The hummingbird knot flared. The soundless bubble around us *rippled*.
Outside, Lyra began to stamp her feet in the *slap-slide-slide* rhythm of an old woman's dance. Kairi, abandoning all dignity, clapped his hands in a deliberately off-beat, complex counter-rhythm.
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