Big Sound

This continent is the body of a god. The mountains are his bones, the plains are his texture, and the rivers are something slow-flowing and warm, getting hotter toward his internal organs. Human beings have been living on and inside his body for generations, but they have never heard him speak a word. No one knows whether he is asleep, sick, or already dead - for thousands of years, pulse listeners have put their ears on the divine body, listening to the pulse that rises and falls only once in centuries, and making diagnoses for this silent body. It is a medical skill that has no patient to ask, and a faith that leads to something that never responds. Wei is the best pulse listener in the world. She was born in the coldest and most forgotten limbs - "hands", and with a pair of ears that can hear the finest levels, she went all the way to the warm "heart". Until one day, she heard something that no one else could hear: a very slight beat.