Kawaks

He remembered a story his mother told him. Not a story of fear. A story of the First Kawaks, who lived before the curse, before the Dominion, before the floating isles broke from the earth. The First Kawaks had no fear because they had no death. They were creatures of pure resonance, singing the world into being note by note.

"Why are you telling me this?" Kaelen asked, his voice flat. kawaks

Or—

He was the first of the new.

Kaelen didn't turn. "More than my life. Less than my silence." He remembered a story his mother told him