Bats use Sonar, a method of echolocation to help them in the wild. In The Thirst Trap, this is represented as a 'breath'. To be blunt about it, The Power of Word is a mix between Latin and Swahili or other African languages such as Igbo.
The Power of Word works upside down, backwards, and upright. If a vampire using, a word, the breath from the vampire is said word. The Word from their throat is an action, you can hear it better than a lyric.
A Word: Monu
A Lyric: Secere
Secere is longer than Monu. Vampires have a bit of a singasong voice when they use Secere.
When used upside down, some display a hoarse voice. Meaning everything sounds fucking evil.
A Lock Door < BREAK
When Aleigha broke a car window, the window didn't completely shatter but more or else disappeared and made a sound as if it was breaking. This is the Trik behind the Lyric
Using word relies on emotion and force from the voice. So it comes out as a command.
Why is a lyric different? A lyric influences. Example: Make me a sandwich > Niten-zee wico
The best way to say it, it's similar to how sirens summon death. For vampires, 'I want you to do my biding.'
Vampires in this book, have some common powers such as flight, mind control, blood-sucking, and speed. Speed is a sticker word or a tattoo.
some WORDS have to be reinforced. Such as SPEED, to make a stick, the enforce is, YE
Some WORDS are mumbled, this is considered a whispered
Mental WORDS are called TOPS
With that in mind, yes, magic can happen even if you can't hear it.
That's not fair. What about vampires reading minds? Yes and No. Some vamps can always read a mind, however, you have to have magic for long distant conversations.
From California to New York? Magic
Inside a classroom? It's fine. Who the fuck can read a mind through a phone?
You know how vampires don't fuck with mirrors? Well, they don't fuck with phones either in the sense that they can't read minds this way. Can a vampire use WORD to control people?
No, no they can't. As superstitions once said, a camera can take the soul and a mirror can show the reflection or some evil thing inside you like a demon. In terms of a phone, vampires don't like static, static cuts connection to the soul and tires it out.