For about a week after the initial explosion at the College, there are echoes of the sound of the blast around the city. Each of the echoes is self-contained -- they're not 'echoes' in the traditional sense. In fact, the first time one happens, kedan flock to the College absolutely sure that another explosion has occurred, but none has.
The echoes sound every hour or so, though there's no discernable pattern to the lengths of time in between them. On the 15th and 16th, everyone in the city is confused and terrified, unsure if any of the sounds belong to a second explosion, or if they're heralds of worse things to come. By the 17th, however, the echoes are accepted as another of those strange tricks the Dreaming likes to play, and the kedan barely flinch as they go about their everyday lives. The echoes continue until around the 23rd, when they abruptly cease sometime during the night.
Any source of the echoes is impossible to trace. Some of them sound like they come from the College; others sound like they come from a tavern, or a house, or a shop. More than once a shopkeeper jumps at the sound of her store falling apart and rushes to rescue her merchandise, only to discover nothing broken or even out of place. The echoes can happen anywhere at any time -- they're totally unpredictable and oftentimes a shock to those nearby, but apart from the noise, they're harmless.
THE ECHOES
The echoes sound every hour or so, though there's no discernable pattern to the lengths of time in between them. On the 15th and 16th, everyone in the city is confused and terrified, unsure if any of the sounds belong to a second explosion, or if they're heralds of worse things to come. By the 17th, however, the echoes are accepted as another of those strange tricks the Dreaming likes to play, and the kedan barely flinch as they go about their everyday lives. The echoes continue until around the 23rd, when they abruptly cease sometime during the night.
Any source of the echoes is impossible to trace. Some of them sound like they come from the College; others sound like they come from a tavern, or a house, or a shop. More than once a shopkeeper jumps at the sound of her store falling apart and rushes to rescue her merchandise, only to discover nothing broken or even out of place. The echoes can happen anywhere at any time -- they're totally unpredictable and oftentimes a shock to those nearby, but apart from the noise, they're harmless.