Ordinary music entertains. Music composed by an Aakasear draws forth life-force energy from the performer to be focused at will. One in fifty births results in an Aakacarn, an Aakasear comes along once in a thousand years if that often, and so the huge population of Melody-Wielders were seldom prepared for the arrival of the creative non-conformist. The world had not been prepared for a composer to live long enough to meet another. Their final encounter...