like rough cloth brushing along a dusty surface (Rebecca Bradley, Scion's Lady, 2000) caressing Then she noticed the rustling inside her head. A caressing sound like the sough of leaves falling on a table of crystal glass. -- Jude Chance, Whisper of Angels (2005) like bubble bath like the "wailing of some lost soul" (Arthur C. Clarke, 2010, 1982) like "an ancient, common tongue" calling one back to a communion once shared long ago (Robert Romanyshyn, The Soul in Grief, 1999) Accounts of unicorns' mind-words in literature include: My unicorn can whisper strange things when I want him to, and sometimes when I don't. -- Larry Niven, More Magic (1984) Seize my horn, said his soft voice in her head. -- John Grant, The Far-Enough Window (2002) The unicorn's eyes narrowed and she heard his Voice echo in her mind again. -- Mark Keavney, The Archer's Flight (2005) The unicorn's "voice" was more thought than vocal sound; but she imagined that the timbre approximated that of a bard she heard once in the Great Hall . . . a sweet tenor's tone. -- Lrd Kedryn, "Visions of Beauty," Neverwinter News #163 (1996)