Hoshor Plains of a chain reaction of countermoves

A lullaby — Valiant wondered at once if Vairë knew the same song. Did she sing it to her children? It seemed likely. He'd come with a mind to tell her about his impending move to Moonglow, but now he saw an opportunity to learn a little more of the people that Vairë had come from.

"Please," he said with a thump of his tail. "Were those all the lyrics?"

It was a more whimsical song than the ones that Easy had sung to Dutch and the others. Valiant wondered if his own mother had sung to him, and then abruptly decided to stop wondering.

"Just not too nicely, mind, or I might just fall asleep," he warned her, only half joking. Still, the advice he offered was clearly in jest: "Maybe miss a note here and there."