Silence

A Circus Of Hells, CHAPTER TWELVE.

When Qanryf Morioch Sun-in-eye tells the datholch Ydwyr the Seeker that the captured human male is Junior Lieutenant Dominic Flandry:

"'Silence fell...'" (p. 278)

Silence suggests significance. Something significant said must be considered. Checking whether we had discussed this passage before, I searched the blog and found many silences falling. See here. (Scroll down.)

But, of course, silence of speech is underlined by background sounds:

"...except for the wind whose rising skirl began to pierce the heavily insulated walls." (ibid.)

As this chapter proceeds, the wind loudens, then yammers. It is rarely silent.