Chapter 6
Chapter 6
The Lands of Thunder, Light and Dark
The arm with the lightning bolt points to Thunder Pass. It is a mountain road where a storm has caught and cannot cross over. That storm, people say, is the true word that never made it over the pass: "it is not coming." The poles and bell towers are scorched by lightning.
The promise here was "I will deliver it without fail." The messengers who set out carrying news, and the people who never heard that they may stop now, are still crossing the pass.
The arm with the sun is Noonfield, the yard right beneath Daycrest where the whole world gathered to wait for Everyone's Morning. The last notice to come down from Daycrest that day was "Wait until noon," and the sun stopped at that noon. There are no shadows, so there is nowhere to hide. The promise here was "I will trust and wait." Those who were told to keep their place still stand before the fading shrines.
The arm with the candle points to Longnight Road, the road walked by a funeral procession that never ends. On this road a funeral ends at dawn, and since dawn does not come, the mourning does not end.
The promise here was "I will not forget." The people who tried never to forget the ones who had gone are, inside that grief, forgetting themselves first.
The Daystones once had a seventh arm, too. Now only a broken stump is left, pointing toward Daycrest, the belfry without a bell, up on the hill.
End of chapter 6
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