"Tell me all about it, baby," he intoned softly while patting his thigh for her to come sit on his lap.

In the background, a coolly ethereal female voice intones softly, "For performance high, please enter now."

"I will not hear of it," he intoned softly.

The Shadow intoned softly, but with an edge of command in his voice now.

The long spaces between the softly intoned chords were filled with expectation.

He went out smiling and softly intoning Narihira's poem about the dream and the snows.

"We have left our wives and children in alien lands," * he intoned softly.

"You feel no pain, no fear, no worry," he intoned softly.

"May your soul ever find grace in the service of Naamah," he intoned softly.

It was a woman's voice, intoning softly.