Chapter 10

BARDO NOIR

What I am about to recount ought to have been told much earlier in this story, for without this knowledge I cannot be understood. She was right that I had done it before. In my previous life I had acted as the hub of the enterprise, pushing tasks between employees, and it took no great cunning to guess as much, since many men my age eventually ended up in such positions. What troubled me instead was that she could sense my relationship with the piano.