More bones
Found another skeleton in the third chamber. Another old man, Kanar said. He was laid out in much the same way as Keyes, and wearing the oddest clothes I’ve ever seen. Some of it looked like armour—a...
View ArticleKanar takes the Water
Still tramping through this maze of tunnels. And with every corner we turn, I half expect to see the Basilod standing there just waiting to attack. But there is nothing here. Okay, so we found more...
View ArticleVictory
The beast is dead! God knows it happened so fast, my mind is still playing catch up. But it’s dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! After all the misery, confusion, fear, and pain, of the past fourteen months, I...
View ArticleEverything’s shrinking
If it was one thing getting into the tunnels so easily, it was quite another thing getting out. The laptop died shortly after my last post and I’ve spent the past 36 hours in a state of almost constant...
View ArticleWicked influences
No change in Maya. It’s so frustrating to just watch her lying so still in that cold place when all I want to do is scoop her up in my arms and carry her back into daylight. I dreamed about that last...
View ArticleChecking on Maya
Didn’t stop for long last night. Though I can’t see this ‘shrinking’ Kanar claims is happening, I can sense it as easily as I’d sense an approaching storm. The atmosphere is tight, mercilessly tight....
View ArticleAshes of a corpse
Sick of all this running. We don’t stop for any more than a few minutes during the day, and it’s never enough to give the laptop battery a good boost. It’s constantly running down and I can’t keep a...
View ArticleTrudgery
Trudging through this dying land is taking its toll. My leg muscles are constantly cramping, my back is aching, and at times I can almost hear my knee joints squeak. I’m knackered, absolutely...
View ArticleMaya moved!
Maya moved. I can’t believe it. She moved. I didn’t see it happen. Nor did O’Heir or the others. But her head is tilted to the right now, and her mouth is partly open. God. It looks like she was trying...
View ArticleA funnel
Got no coverage on the laptop yesterday, and it was like a nightmare not knowing what’s happening back home. Maya hasn’t budged since Sunday. But we don’t think it was simply some mindless bodily...
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