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…breathe. Children are taught about it growing up with lullabies and nursery rhymes. One such is noted below:
*Sleep, little sparrow, fold up your wings
Dreamwings*
*Dream while the stone beneath you sings
Whateversings*
*Whatever it promises, whatever it knowsknows*
Lie very still and keep your eyes closed.*
*Sleep, little sparrow, morning is near
Paynear*
*Pay no mind to the voice in your ear
Thoughear*
*Though it may weep and though it may plead,
Motherplead,*
*Mother won't ever call from beneath your feet.*
Sepulchre teaches that the Hum is the breath of Saint Marrow himself, rising from his tomb beneath…
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It's heard best when the city is quiet, in the hour before the work-bells ring. It's heard in the lifts, heard when one presses their ear against the walls. Some days it is scarcely more than just a chattering in your teeth, while on others cups tremble on the shelves and the walls seem to breathe. Children are taught about it growing up with lullabies and nursery rhymes. One such is noted below:
- *Sleep, little sparrow, fold up your wings
+ *Sleep, little sparrow, fold up your wings*
- Dream while the stone beneath you sings
+ *Dream while the stone beneath you sings*
- Whatever it promises, whatever it knows
+ *Whatever it promises, whatever it knows*
Lie very still and keep your eyes closed.*
- *Sleep, little sparrow, morning is near
+ *Sleep, little sparrow, morning is near*
- Pay no mind to the voice in your ear
+ *Pay no mind to the voice in your ear*
- Though it may weep and though it may plead,
+ *Though it may weep and though it may plead,*
- Mother won't ever call from beneath your feet.*
+ *Mother won't ever call from beneath your feet.*
Sepulchre teaches that the Hum is the breath of Saint Marrow himself, rising from his tomb beneath the Cathedral at the very bottom of the city. It is held as living proof that the Prophet endures: that he listens, that he hears every prayer, and to say otherwise is heresy.