Teaser Tuesday - My Minstrels

The monster work in progress I have been slaving away at, joyfully, I will add, is a story about a band of minstrels. The idea came from this question: "Did minstrels have groupies?"
I slept on it, and the next day wrote out the first 2,000 words.

For today I thought I would share this bit, from the first quarter of the story. Where our heroes are invited to stay at a magic school, because the headmistress and the piper have a history. It's a nice bit of rest after being attacked the night befo...