It seemed to him that he heard notes of fitful music leaping upwards a tone and downwards a diminished fourth, upwards a tone and downwards a major third, like triple-branching flames leaping fitfully, flame after flame, out of a midnight wood.
Iruditzen zitzaion musika aldakor baten notak entzuten zituela jauzika, tonu bat gora eta laudun gutxitu bat behera, tonu bat gora eta hirudun maior bat behera, hiru mihiko garrak apetara saltari, garra garraren ondotik, gauerdiko basotik irtenda.