The Dove’s Reconcaissance
During the high days of the Haustorical Mutuality, a nervous Wayfinder who wished to complete a pilgrimage to the Ruin of the Roots trained a dove to scout ahead.
I’m Reading…
The dove, it becomes increasingly clear, is not a mere trained pet but a skintwisting chor-fragment. It flies to what must be the Noble Retreat and perches at window, joining in the songs of the distorted fungus-being within.
I’ve Read…
The songs of the fungus are low and sweet; old Quechua songs from the Curicuillorian days. The dove sees, for a moment, a woman come from the haustoria’s tendril, ‘as if drawn by our shared emanations of chor-rhythms.’ The author concludes that ‘even the last Curicuillorian, then, has joined that Blight, adding her song to their foul production’ **Effect: **Memory: Gossip **Mastery: **Lesson: Sky Stories
Aspects
- Mystery: Rose 4
- Written in Ramsund
- Subject: Sky Stories
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Noble Retreat