Altoon's Anthology Of Graded Classical Piano Sh... -

By Grade 7 , Elias had stopped eating. The gold coins were piled in a jar, but he didn't care about the money anymore. The music was changing him. His hearing had sharpened to a painful degree; he could hear the heartbeat of a sparrow in the eaves and the rhythmic grinding of the tectonic plates deep below the floorboards.

There were no notes on the staff. Instead, the page was a mirror-smooth sheet of that iridescent ink. Below the empty lines, a single instruction was printed in a fine, elegant hand: “Play the silence that remains.” Altoon's Anthology of Graded Classical Piano Sh...

He opened to Grade 1 . A simple C-major scale exercise. But as he hummed the melody, he noticed the ink wasn't standard black; it had a faint, iridescent sheen, like oil on water. By Grade 7 , Elias had stopped eating