Sleepiness

They were all struggling with the urge to sleep, though, so when I waited until a point in their song where both Singers were to take a breath, and then I took their forms and sang the next verse in their own voices, I was impressed and pleased with myself. It was smooth and seamless, and it played out the same way across ten different domes.

Then I started putting more power into the song, turning it from a mild song of sleepiness into a powerful lullaby. The biggest danger was that the effect would reach too far and be noticed by some of the guards. It was possible that I might be able to reach the entire base at the same time, especially if enough voices were raised at the same time, and so I had to be careful to keep the effect localized.

A hundred of me slipped under a hundred doors, finding a hundred guards asleep at their posts. I carefully slipped over a hundred heads and I crushed them all at the same time. There were a few of them who struggled, but it didn’t matter.

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Attack