So many people! Thinlómien thought, happily ambling through the crowd, sharing toasts with old friends and enemies alike. It felt like good old times. And to think, an even bigger party was only to come!
Suddenly, her musings were interrupted by the papery sound of a telephone ringing in the distance.
"Is that for me?" she muttered aloud. "And if I pick it up now,
who's gonna pick it up the next time it rings?"