Strange, lawless thoughts floated in her mind.

The world was meant for love, and passionate sadness, and breaking hearts that healed at the glance of an eye.

And as her ear followed the tune, her eyes were drawn with an irresistible movement to the musician.

She found him staring at her with a magnetic look in his eyes.
He was no longer ridiculous.

The large head, wedged beneath the shoulders, the projecting hump, monstrous and inhuman, and the music breathed into the reeds set him apart as a sinister, uncanny being.
She frowned in an effort to think what the strange figure reminded her of, and suddenly she remembered.