Dance Hall
As you enter the dance hall you are welcomed by singing and the sounds of feet dancing to the musicians that are located in loft overlooking the main room of the hall. Bar maids move through the crowds pouring ale and wine, people sway back and forth singing bawdy songs and you find yourself drawn in...
You wander toward the bar, and ask the bartender...who looks like the
gravedigger Seamus ... what are the pamphlets
some of the patrons appear to be singing from? "The Vanished Wood Songbooke" he replies
in his thick Irish accent, as he bends down under the bar and hands you a
yellowed copy. "Aye both Gwendolyn and Lady Katherine are in yonder
corner...singing their songs from this very booke" as he points over to two
ladies, one in a nun's habit and the other playing a great harp. You
wonder out loud, what is a nun doing in this place? And in gods name, what
is she doing singing bawdy songs? "New to Vanished Wood aren't ya?",
winks Seamus...
