But the band blasted off, with a four- or five-member trumpet section nailing nasty riffs as the rest of the band nattered away at percussion.
After all, she and the Queen had always happily nattered away for hours while out riding around the castle estate that runs along the River Dee.
"Now I've compounded my carelessness in running into you by keeping you and Lord Brandark standing here nattering away," she apologized.
UPDATE: You can see a picture of Draghi nattering away behind the wheel here.
The AV pillar next to the tea urn buzzed softly as Kelly Tirrel nattered away.
She listened as he nattered away at Lessing over the comm, moving his lips as if he really needed them to speak.
He did not turn his head to look at me when I moved but instead kept staring at the place where I had been, nattering away in an inaudible voice.
Then Andy and Chris, the video team, filmed me nattering away about the joys of walking in the countryside.
Before I opened my mouth that night, they were always nattering away among themselves, and I didn't exist.
I knew Starkad couldn't keep anything to himself for very long, and Grimolf wasn't much better; they were nattering away in low voices, so obviously there was something to talk about.