Before the Great Drowning. Before the sea rose up and swallowed the lower streets. Before the children stopped singing.
She explained it once when he was small: im (inside), ceag (to crack open), laer (song). A crack inside a song. The echo left behind after the music stops. imceaglaer
The villagers thought she was addled. But they humored her because she still wove the best fishing nets in the county. Before the Great Drowning
It didn’t stop.