Primordial Silence
~???–0 · Uta
What omen is this?
Season 1 “Primordial Silence”
The sudden death of the previous Listener leaves the succession rite hanging, and Uta faces Gald's distrust and a crisis in the clan at the same time. A find in forbidden ground carries her through the crisis, but the succession is deferred, and the riddle of the bone comb is handed on.
- OpeningThat she heard no voice in the confiscated singing stone, and a decisive break with Gald.
- DevelopmentThe bone comb still silent, and the fevered youth getting worse.
- TurnWhat the old bone fragment found in the Singing Vale means, and what it sets in motion.
- CrisisOn the eve of the Star Festival: a threat of exile, and a demand that she prove the voice by saving the fevered youth.
- ResolutionWhere the old bone fragment Uta now holds came from, and the riddle of Nono's bone comb, which still says nothing.