“Tarantella denies everything and keeps excellent time.”
A Amber weaver of The Wolf Runners
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Centuries ago, her bite supposedly sent whole Italian villages dancing till dawn — the tarantella, named for her. Tarantella denies everything. She keeps excellent time anyway, just in case, tapping her feet to music only she can hear.
She is currently sunning at her burrow mouth in the southern Italian dusk, tapping one foreleg in a rhythm that is definitely not a tarantella. It is absolutely a tarantella. She will neither confirm nor deny.
The old stories will keep being told, and Tarantella will keep denying them, and the dance named for her will outlive everyone who ever danced it. Some legends you do not have to earn. You just have to keep excellent time.
“The tarantella was danced for her, but the rhythm predates every village that claims it. Brushleg tried to drum it once and stopped after four beats, pale. That is not a dance, he said. That is a summons. He has not drummed since without checking the shadows first.”
Tarantella's dance is older than the villages.
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