You find the compound of the Unbroken Circle easily enough by going up the Hill and following the wall. It doesn’t have distinctive decorations, but then not all cults do. A beggar on the corner clues you towards the open gate on the otherwise residential street, leading to the yard of an ordinary-seeming townhouse. The… Continue reading The Unbroken Circle
We fall silent after that. I look sideways at the Dreamer, who stares at the dream-moon of this memory landscape. This is all very real to him, in a way that makes one doubt the antiquity of the events. I walk closer to the phantasm of the ancient Bungisngis. Nothing much can be divined of… Continue reading An Adult Conversation
As I awaken, the first thing I do is look for my notebook to write down the strange dream. The second thing I do is impatient fidgeting as I wait for the sun to rise, followed thirdly by getting up and stretching out back muscles locked up by the cold. It takes some doing after… Continue reading A Day on the Dig
The shadow-woods of the Tree-Men are striking in contrast to the jungle riverbanks and the Jeweled Swamps familiar from your journey so far: gone are the ever-present grasses and scrubs, replaced by a spongy turf covered with but dead discards of the great, straight hardwood trees that seem timeless and implacable in the way their… Continue reading Bull’s Choice
Derak in the Scarlet City 