Episode MMII – The Last Room

When they would not accept the True Word and refused the salvation being offered to them out of deeply held but unholy belief or out of the perverse workings of the Evil Spirit Which Lingers Everywhere and must be cast out by fire or worse, they were brought here and shown a distant vision of the Tower of Faith after which they were given a choice of defenestration and slow lingering death impaled on the jagged rocks below or, if they hesitated, they were slashed by the priestly sword and thrown down, their blood exciting the dragon lizards which are always hungry and which chew most slowly, thoroughly and with great slurping. And, so the Divine Will is served.

Plate CVIV – Meagly

(From Field Guide IV)

(As decreed, the Royal Naturalist and Master of Teleology, kept a log of all creatures that we captured and ate.)

This beast of the bird genera (Trockmyria cricciao) bedeviled us as we attempted to cross a strong stream, diving and clawing us and making bloody wounds on unprotected necks and arms which later festered and oozed and causing stinking fevers of the gut that left its sufferers weak and so despondent that they prayed for death and worse. The application of prayer and amulet as well as supplications for divine intervention failed to save them as these were clear evidence of the spontaneous generation of Evil in nature, requiring resinous salves which we did not possess.