Tangled Roots, Rusted Blades, Skeletal Remains
from Hark! The Whispering Dead of the Burial Lake by Fen Walker
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This was truly a land for the dead. Why would their wards travel so far and risk so much to come to this burial ground? At every turn, there seemed to be a raised platform bearing a skeleton in moldering garments or a tree’s hollow bearing the same. Tangled in the roots of trees was the evidence of great battles: bones, rusted swords and standards. When they camped in a cave, it was amongst the deceased they slept.
Kyllar and Pjorlar, would never admit it to each other, but they both felt unease slowly work its way through their mental battlements, a fearlessness built from the brick work of warfare and mortared with the horrors witnessed upon the killing fields. Each day they wandered an endless landscape of woods and marsh, over which hung an unbroken and preternatural quietude. Somewhere, their wards, Soja and Woja wandered these same untamed wilds where even a battle-hardened man had cause to look over his shoulder. They were charged to reclaim their responsibilities, the Jarl’s stepdaughters. Should they fail, it would be better that they remain and join the rest of these nameless dead in their secluded moldering.
They came upon the barrows on the fourth day. Kyllar had never believed a word of The Woman’s tales, of which there were many. True, her adventures in The Underneath had been verified, and had brought trade between their two peoples. But her tales of a southern land across the ocean? A barbaric warlord beyond the powers of the great sleep, who raided this supposed realm? Mounds of dirt the height of a guildsman’s manor, housing generations of noble dead? Madness. Until now.
“I always believed The Woman’s tales, I am happy they bear some credence.” Pjorlar said with a grin. Kyllar grunted, shouldered his pack and trudged across a seemingly endless plane, where only the mighty barrows, plundered of their treasure many years ago, broke the horizon.
Kyllar and Pjorlar, would never admit it to each other, but they both felt unease slowly work its way through their mental battlements, a fearlessness built from the brick work of warfare and mortared with the horrors witnessed upon the killing fields. Each day they wandered an endless landscape of woods and marsh, over which hung an unbroken and preternatural quietude. Somewhere, their wards, Soja and Woja wandered these same untamed wilds where even a battle-hardened man had cause to look over his shoulder. They were charged to reclaim their responsibilities, the Jarl’s stepdaughters. Should they fail, it would be better that they remain and join the rest of these nameless dead in their secluded moldering.
They came upon the barrows on the fourth day. Kyllar had never believed a word of The Woman’s tales, of which there were many. True, her adventures in The Underneath had been verified, and had brought trade between their two peoples. But her tales of a southern land across the ocean? A barbaric warlord beyond the powers of the great sleep, who raided this supposed realm? Mounds of dirt the height of a guildsman’s manor, housing generations of noble dead? Madness. Until now.
“I always believed The Woman’s tales, I am happy they bear some credence.” Pjorlar said with a grin. Kyllar grunted, shouldered his pack and trudged across a seemingly endless plane, where only the mighty barrows, plundered of their treasure many years ago, broke the horizon.
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from Hark! The Whispering Dead of the Burial Lake,
released November 27, 2020
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