Isabella finds cause to sing for the cessation of a rather excessive storm (they fly over, not through; it isn't one of those towering thunderheads so huge as to be impossible to detour around, the kind that felled Delilah early in her tenure) but otherwise she allows silence to reign as well.

She lands at the Eyrie when it's almost dusk. "Let's go introduce you to the choir director," she says, setting Nathaniel down and offering him her hand.