Salome had heard the music for some time now Hecate's seven veils of silence. The haunting dulcimer sounds of the Santur in '1st veil-desert capture' began to move through her after her mother Herodias sliced the flaccid tongue of john as it sat on the silver salver the rhythm turning martial & full of cymbal brashness in 'nest of vipers.' the baleful sound of 'houris' hours' & '3rd veil Salome's's command' remained vague like a metallic ambience a remembrance of her lascivious.