Mapona Volume 2 -

“You wanted the Silence back,” Mapona said, smiling for the first time in days. “So I’m giving it noise instead.”

Listen first. The fragment in your chest—give it back to me willingly. Let me become whole. In return, I will release your villagers. I will sleep for another thousand years. You will grow old. You will die. And the Silence will wait. Mapona volume 2

Kaelo told her.

She poured every sound she had ever hoarded into the fragment. Every laugh. Every cry. Every whispered promise. Every clumsy footstep in the dark. “You wanted the Silence back,” Mapona said, smiling