Anikazip — Afra

: Every moonless night, Afra Anikazip would take these stones and strike them against the cave walls. This was the "Anikazip"—the reversal. By striking the stones in a specific rhythm, the anger was bleached out of the curses, and the secrets were turned into lullabies.

Afra was not a person of flesh and bone, but a collection of silver threads and shifting shadows. They lived within the , where every sound ever made in the world eventually drifted to rest. Afra Anikazip

: Afra’s primary task was to catch the words people regretted saying. When a traveler shouted an angry curse or a lover whispered a secret they wished to take back, those sounds would travel upward, cooling into heavy, sapphire-colored stones. : Every moonless night, Afra Anikazip would take