Books of Sorrow
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III: The Oath
Verse 1:3-The Oath
Sisters! This is how an oath is done. Put your left hands on the mast, close to mine.
Take the knife in your right hand. Push it through your left hand, straight between the bones. Now! Carve a blood line down the mast.
Speak your oath.
I am Xi Ro, youngest daughter of the dead king. I will take back my Osmium Court and kill the traitor Taox. On my left eye I swear vengeance.
In blood the oath is made.
I am Sathona, middle daughter of the dead king. I will take back my home and eat the mother jelly. I will raise my spawn on the corpse of the Helium King. On my right eye I promise this.
In blood the oath is made.
Now...
I will help make your oath, sister.
I will help it too.
I am Aurash, first daughter of the dead king. I will chase my fathers last screamed warning. I will know what changed the motion of our moons. If the end of the world is coming, I will understand why.
On my center eye I swear it. I will understand.
In blood the oath is made.
In blood.
Thank you, sisters. We have only my ship left to us. But a ship is freedom! We have secrets to hunt, storm-lit realms to explore, and great armies to raise.
Put up the lightning sails, and we will voyage far. -
V: NEEDLE AND WORM
Verse 1:5 Needle and Worm
My secrets
Carved in my code by Sathona
The right eye vengeance
1. This year of wild voyaging, these lightning nights and golden days, these forays into ancient wrecks and windblown flights from monsters: these are the happiest times of my life.
2. I want to be a mother not because I want to spawn but because I want a long life. Long enough to make a difference. We have been at sea a year and I am afraid, afraid we will die out here.
3. I know where to find secrets. I know where vast slow things with long memories live.
4. The needle ship...
The needle ship
Carved in my code by Sathona
A liar
1. We salvaged the needle from the Shvubi Maelstrom. I knew it would be there.
2. The needle is a gray ship, as long and slender as hope, as unbreakable as time, and old. Older than death. It tumbled through the maelstrom before our ancestors crashed into the Fundament. This is not a sea-ship, like Aurashs. It is an artifact of high technology.
3. I know its purpose. I know what happened to the crew.
4. Xi Ro wants to sell the ship at Kaharn Atoll, where species gather. At auction, it would earn us enough wealth to hire mercenaries. We could retake our Osmium Court and send the baby-eating Helium Drinkers screaming into the ocean
5. but I told Xi Ro the ship was worthless.
6. Aurash wants to open the ship and see if we can take command of it. I know this is the right thing to do. I know because I asked the worm...
The worm
Carved in my code by Sathona
Who should be afraid
1. It was my fathers familiar. I ripped it from him as we fled. It is a dead white thing, segmented, washed up from the deep sea.
2. Its dead, but it still speaks to me. It says: listen closely, oh vengeance mine...
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