35 - Cultural inspiration

Far from the conflicts besetting the quiet town (true, I hear your corrections, it is indeed only a neighbourhood) of Gwair-on-Wye, Yevgeny Huxtable and Guthrie Cotton are leading several companions on a nostalgic cultural tour of Padua. Here amongst the gently sizzling temperatures of Lombardy, it is Magritude Feather who beguiles the wanderers with her sweet flutelike singing, and makes them all feel so much younger. And indeed it is the memory of youth that now rejuvenates their weary bones, as they float creakily from church to church. In the relatively unknown Basilica of San Scrupello, they see a painting that in time will transform all their lives.