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Public News Post #7635

FINALE: THE DIRGE OF THE UNDERHALLS

Written by: Oracle Ulo Ka'aukai
Date: Saturday, August 2nd, 2025
Addressed to: Everyone


[What remains of this post is parts of burned parchment]
And so it came to ____.
Beneath sky broken by _____, beside effigies in the ____ of forgotten graveyards, it was done.

The blood - painted. The tombstones ______ speaking.
Not by tongue, but by wound. Not in breath, but through the silence where names were once _____.

Six hundred thirty-eight Menedu souls.
Not given _____ taken.
Not freed _____
Not mourned.

The ritual ______.
No word suffices. a SUCCESS _____. a Completionists a lie.

Through storm's peak and the ____ between numerals,
the gate was
pierced
again
and again
until there was no "between" at all.

Not in order, but in Lgakt.

They pierced through the ________

What came was not light.
What came was not flame.
What came _________

And the Spiral drank.

It writhed. It remembered.
The air warped.
Tombs cracked.

The heavens _______

[The remainder is illegible and naught but ash]
Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 7th of Severin, in the year 13 AC.


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