Location:Zhū'kethara — Vaelith's Quarters / Council Corridor / Common Path
Date/Time:Mid Ashwhisper, 9941 AZI
Realm:Demon Realm
The singing had been going on for seven hours.
Selyra's voice carried through the stone corridors of Vaelith's wing in waves that rose and fell with the labor, the Birthsinger's gift wrapping around the child and the mother in frequencies that made the walls hum. Not music. Something older. The sound of a specialist doing the work she'd entered the mountain for, the work she'd carved wake me when they need me again into her own pod to ensure she'd be alive to do, and every note was aimed at keeping two hearts beating in rhythm until the smaller one was ready to beat on its own.
Ren stood at the far end of the corridor and listened.
