Shul, Ket-Rah

It's a lullaby. The oldest one she knows, sung in the same mysterious language as "Ashren Venn," which no linguist on Earth has ever been able to identify. The title means Sleep, Little One. Some of its oldest words, she has said, no longer have any meaning at all, even to the people it came from. They're simply sounds, passed down from mother to child for longer than anyone can remember. She first sang it alone, in the dark, every night for nine months, to a child who hadn't yet been born. She