Rumours Pass Through The Children

• “Blessed be! The Fire Creatures have allowed us to ride them! Surely this is some sign that the Sun has approved our works!”
• “The memory vines are growing! The Earth has given back to us what the Water took - oh, well, yeah I mean it helps that Polyester and Clover Leaf are tending to them. Have you seen the garden, anyway? It's great-”
• “More Crystadynes have been made so that more people can communicate with the Sky! No that's not technology! It can't be. The Sky approves it.”
• “Did you hear… Silas agreed to the release of Munia… She's under constant guard and he won't let her far out of his sight, but she's free. I don't know- I think he still believes her cult heresy but… maybe there's hope for some sort of peace? He wouldn't have told Read to release her otherwise, surely.”
• “Water has spared us this cycle! The defenses worked! We are safe from, uh, the blessings of Nature, thanks to the barriers built around the settlement.”
• “The Serpent of the Sky has been killed! We must all mourn the loss of this blessing, and care for its hatchlings better than we cared for it.”
• “Something in the Sky took someone! It just… it just took them. Into the Sky. And then flew away!”

“We have all been misguided, in our lives, in our times; we have all misjudged, mistook, and walked down the wrong path. We are all here because we want to do better. We know we can do better. And I look around and see people full of hope - and I want you to hold to that. Regardless of the ways in which you have faltered, there is always, always, forgiveness. Now, I know in my heart what I believe to be right. I know what Nature tells me each day, but I know also that those who differ, believe just as fervently in the power of Nature as I do.

“But just as I have been misguided, they have been misguided. And that is why we have this community. To help each other do better.

“The full body burnings will stop from now. Our Community has lost too many to the Flames and my conscience cannot abide losing more. But other differences in how we practice our Faith shall be left to stand, and in the end Nature will cleanse all impure thoughts and practices from us. Trust in that.”