A Hungarian dulcimer hangs above the lintel. It’s said that travelers stained by blood will produce a dour note. Such people are always welcomed with mead and sent to restful beds.
A spacious pillow awaits their heads. As always the innkeeper departs through the rear door.
His hounds sing brightly.
3 Things About This Micro-fiction
- Research proves that a Hungaraian dulcimer is too large to hang above a lintel.
- A Romanian dulcimer would not sound quite the same.
- So I stuck to my original plan. Poetic license.