What was that? At first Shalina thought she had found a hidden knife in a pocket in the cloak she had stolen, but when she fished it out she found it to be a flute. Not a very elaborate one, just a simple flute carved out of bone, and with six holes on top.
She had never played a flute, but she had seen it done of course, and so she put her lips to the end - after giving it a cautionary wipe - and blew.
The first noises were terrible, until she figured out to blow not too soft, but definitely not too hard either. After a couple of attempts she had gotten a steady tone and started figuring out how to place her fingers over the holes to get the sounds right.
She had just managed to get all the tones to sound right when she was interrupted by a voice from behind.
“Oh, I hear you found my flute…”