Tarreza

A College-trained lutenist working a four-town circuit to pay down the tuition debt that follows her faster than any cart.

Tarreza learned notation and ensemble discipline at the Listening College, then discovered that instruction there is entered in a ledger like any other loan. She works market squares, inn doors, and caravan suppers until the debt is gone. Her Marching Air came from quartermasters who used its eight-step phrase to keep tired columns together; Tarreza teaches it without romance and counts every beat.