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The scented chamber

from The Jester's Quest in the City of Glass by Lyrian

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Fit the Third: The Scented Chamber

Narrator: The Jester arrives at the City of Glass and enters. It is full of beautiful people and buildings, but the air is heavy with foul odours. The streets are paved with silver and laid out in straight lines, and the houses are raised on stilts with many doors and windows. Outside one building a glass sign bears the symbol of a green tree. The Jester goes inside. Although the sky is bright and the walls are of glass, the interior is dark and lit by red and yellow lanterns. There is a smell of incense, and the Jester wonders if this might be a church.

Jester: I see a green light in the gloom
And suddenly an angel stands
Beside me, singing in that scented room
A lantern and a bottle in his hands

I take the bottle and I drink
Its nectar fills my breast with bliss
My mind clears, now I am standing on the brink
Of understanding all of this

Narrator: Six times in all the angel brings
Bliss-filled bottles, fit to burst
Full of dreams and wondrous things
Answering his thirst

Now his mind is at its best
There is nothing wine can’t teach
Save the purpose of his quest
Still just beyond his reach

He stands before a door of lead
Brightly lit, but can’t proceed
A word is written there in red
A word he cannot read

He almost understands the rune
Like ‘wonderful’ or ‘wrong’ it seems
A seventh angel brings him soon
A seventh vial of dreams

Jester: I know that one more sip will shine
A light upon this final ‘why?’
The angel offers me his wine
I drink and know the answers lie
beyond that leaden door, I try
to open it, and open it, and thus pass out

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from The Jester's Quest in the City of Glass, released April 1, 2016

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John Blake: guitars, singing
Alison Felstead: bass, singing
Paul W. Nash: keyboards, guitars, woodwinds, singing
Edgar Wilde: drums, percussion

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