cat on lap / blind flute boy lounges in favorite corner / studio / neither asleep / old artist wakes / afternoon / strangled cry / most unusual / in terror dream / what / vanished / most unusual / flute boy / only other in the room / disturbs cat / comes to artist side / again unusual / unlike Angelino / Octavio seemed generally indifferent to the Master / you alright / said the boy / ol Fishface brightens / yes yes / it was nothing / old cynical smile / nothing / terror / good of you ta ask my boy / pause / regarding Octavio / since he arrived he certainly had changed / Angelino had changed him / clothed in assortment startling colours / effect quite ridiculous / everyone laugh / himself laughing in tune with the laughter / ol master smiles thin apologetic / seems like we never got to talk proper / m’lad / the goatherds was that family / suddenly / scant concern for communication / launch into song / sang of cave / home / flocks by night / mighty cavern / many goats big and small / mouth of tha cave / small cabin and gate / home / shared each lunar month different goatherd in turn / till resuming with first / song lingers long discriptions deep delicious echo cave / goat noises transformed into great blanket of mystery sound / into this blow flute / man and perhaps goat would listen / goat ghosts