They immediately pushed him out of the way and shared the packs among them, allowing him only the new harp case.

Finally Talia sighed sadly and said with reluctance, "The only thing we have to use is the harp case."

A flash of bright silver spun through the air, landing in the harp case.

Only the battered harp case was the same.

He sat a moment in silence, then reached for the harp case.

A woman's diaphanous red silk scarf was tied around the strap of the harp case, but it could have belonged to anyone.

He shifted the harp case a little higher on his back, kneed Thunder forward at a slightly faster pace.

He looked down, spotting her from above by the misshapen bundle of the harp case on her back.

He could put it in the harp case, but that would mean abandoning his own, ordinary instrument.

Finally Emereck rose and opened his harp case.