Surviving the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 971

Eunuch Lu Never Forgives

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Selûne was deeply displeased. The moonlight in the pool twisted and turned, rather like a woman with her hands on her hips, loudly berating someone. "I like moving music and beautiful singing. What's wrong with that?

Just because I can't sing myself means I'm not allowed to listen?"

Shar sneered. "Who do you take for a fool? The voices in those music boxes sound so much like you. Who wouldn't recognize them?

I actually admire Milil. To earn that little bit of money from you, he had to take female form and disguise his voice to sound almost exactly like yours.

And don't even mention the instruments. I could tell with one listen that most of them were played by Lliira.

Did you think I didn't know that the customers in Waterdeep's taverns all believed it was you performing and singing?

At first, I never imagined that the famously beautiful woman gifted in both song and dance would be you. Wasn't it because of that reputation? After all, you had sung in public a few times... Later, I realized how useful illusions could be, huh?

And Khelben probably knew who you were, so even if he noticed you weren't really singing, he wouldn't say anything.

What a pity. If Leira hadn't stabbed you in the back and weakened your illusion abilities, you could have kept impersonating her forever!

Let me think... Back then, wasn't the hottest topic on the Sword Coast when that Blue Dragon, famous for loving music, would charge into Waterdeep and make the Moonlight Tavern's owner perform just for him?

You should thank me for arriving early enough. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been able to keep hiding, would you?

If you had stayed any longer, you probably would have become the first great goddess forced to reveal

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