The problem with belonging to a village that worshipped a big ominous hole in the ground is that holes in the ground tended to be very cryptic about their mystical instructions. Messages from the deep didn't arrive all that often, luckily, and they arrived even less often once the leaders decided to abandon the guardian of the abyss. After all, if no one ever visited him and there were no more ceremonies, how could he (or the abyss, if you believed that part of it) demand anything? Instead: Pretend its not there, forbid any mention of it, ignore the whispers in the shadows, and maybe everyone would eventually forget about the big ominous hole that had ruled the village for centuries. That was the leader's plan. In principle, Raven agreed with the leaders. She agreed that the abyss was creepy and that it was weird to worship a giant hole in the ground and that it wasn't great to let that hole take a person to keep for itself every ten years. But it's tradition! was not a good enough reason to go along with it, even after thousands of years. If it had really been that long, that meant hundreds of humans had been swallowed up by the abyss. TBC
WOF FOH by Tui t. Sutherland HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS
