Listen for a soft crooning. He heard a new sound, very faint and melodic. Singing, perhaps? ... Suddenly the unicorn spoke to him. "Follow the sun," it said in its singsong voice. -- Mary Kirchoff, Night of the Eye (1994) No matter how softly a unicorn might sing, the voice will permeate the surroundings, as with Tom Waits. Indeed, Jeanie Lemaire speaks of the "very soft but penetrating voice" of the unicorn (The Body Talks ... and I Can Hear It, 1996). Soft crooning may build in energy and intensity. The pagan theorist and peace activist Starhawk describes how "a low crooning, a deep vibration barely heard" manifests into a miraculous unicorn horn. The crooning slowly rises into "an eerie nonharmony. The air seems to thicken, to dance with electric sparks that begin to fly, circle, spin, careen madly." The sonic sparks make the atmosphere glow like a luminous, pulsating cloud. "The light spirals upward, faster, faster, as it narrows toward the top. The sound is indescribable; the voices are the shrieking wind, the howling of wolves, the high cries