Bearskie's JournalThis morning we hear sounds from within the walls as we prayed. Were there demons in these walls too? No as it turns out, the demons were dwarves of mining descent. They want to knock a hole into god's ceiling and make water flow. The priest is unhappy, the temple dwarves are unhappy, I am unhappy. Everyone is unhappy now, says the miner dwarf, but everyone will be happy once water falls through the hole. People get angry at this, but a pickaxe narrowly misses a head and everyone flees.
Later we come back to the temple and there is a nice waterfall at the end. The smell of water is strange but soothing. Everyone is happy.
People pray alot in this place. They fear the dead but they fear the gods more. We have displeased the gods in this place, that is why the dead rise and walk. If we seek their wrath, worse things will follow. What is worse than the dead I ask, many many things they say. Things that they can see in their waking dreams. If we repent, may they sleep quiet in the dark.
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One week later we are angry again. Someone peeked into the water system. It was crudely-engineered and open to the outside. What if the dead come through it? There is also a dead baby in the pipes.
Dead babies should not be in pipes. Dead babies should be in dead baby cribs. But nobody is willing to go and rescue dead baby, and people do not wish to turn off the waterfall. The water keeps us happy. They are shouting, this is okay. The baby is in the drain and not the source. This is okay. We are okay, we are happy, together we pray for poor baby. May he float and not stink.
I wonder if this is a foreshadowing.
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