Kael stood in the sudden silence, ears ringing. Then a new sound began: distant cheers from the upper city, where people were seeing the sun for the second time that day. But closer, beneath his feet, he heard something else. A slow, sleeping sigh. The god turning over.
Above, the perpetual rain stopped.
He smiled. The kwap was gone. But now the city had a heartbeat. And it sounded like a lullaby. Kael stood in the sudden silence, ears ringing
Kael had lived in the Sinking Quarter his whole life. To him, the kwap was silence. Kael stood in the sudden silence