Diary of Goden Taltotdakost:
1st Limestone, 1067
Mother was working on the power linkages today. We have a wave basin set up, with waterwheels providing power to a pump stack below. the overseer says it'll be a great surprise when it's done, and that we'll all love it. I hope so, but life seems so great here. I asked where the water in the basins came from and was told to be quiet, and I'm not sure why they didn't just connect the two power stations with an axle, instead of going so far down and bringing it back up. it seems silly to waste so much power.
I see the engravings on the wall, dwarves killing other dwarves, bears eating elves. Goblins... The adults sure do like their fairy tales. none of those things actually exist, They all tell us that they are real, but we would have seen them if they were real. when I was really little I remember we dug into a big cave. The Overseer demanded we build biiiiiig walls all the way to the ceiling, and they did. the walls are still there, but sometimes we dig under them. we're still not allowed outside the tunnels into the big cave though...
sometimes Kivish says he sees things, far in the distance when he's gathering the cave spider silk that forms in the tunnels down there. He can never see quite what they are, but every so often we hear a scary noise. it makes me nervous, but nothing ever goes wrong here. Maybe it's got something to do with the strange rock I saw once. It was cold and melted in your hands, what I remember most is that it glowed, like a gem in front of a fire, just a soft, pale blue glowy. I don't tell mother and father, but I remember something else. it was another cave, but instead of darkness, like the other one, it is filled with light. the air MOVED, fast and cold through my beard. the light made me sick. Dodok once said something about it, so I know it's not just me. but he disappeared after his parents told him to be quiet and stop telling lies, his parents said he got inspired. that's how a lot of people go. we are not very fancy, like some of the places I saw in engravings, so we do not have "shells" but people want them anyways. then they come back... changed, or they don't come back at all. one day the door unlocks and their body is just lying there, wasted away and dry as sand. but I know I saw it too, he wasn't lying.
The old play room was made entirely out of glass! we don't have any more mother says, but it's fun to just sit and watch the fish swim around us. sometimes people go into the glowy blue rock outside. but they've never gone into that cave again.
But everything is fine in HonoredSalve. sometimes bad things just happen. but the overseer will protect us. always.
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