44 The Fiercest Battles Are Fought Within

The darkness. Trapped in the box.

Get me out of the box.

Agony. Searing, unbearable agony.

Hold him down!

Strapped in.

Unable to move.

The darkness.

This forever.

This his fate.

Mevans! Mevans! Get me out!

Hold him down, for Hag’s sake or I’ll take the knife to you.

Agony. Searing, unbearable agony.

There are borebones in the box! They have put borebones in the box!

They are eating me alive. Please, Mevans. Come for me, they are eating me alive.

Hold him down, may the Hag take you if you can’t keep him still.

Shhh, shhh, Deckkeeper, I am here. It is Mevans, I am here.

Why is it so dark, Mevans?

Open the Hag-cursed box, I am being eaten alive.

Agony. Searing, unbearable agony.

Hag curse you woman, hurry!

The Shipwife! The Shipwife is here!

Ey, Deckkeeper, she is. She will let no harm come to you.

The agony. The searing, unbearable agony.

Curse you woman, get the limb off, I could have done it more quickly myself.

Not and kept him alive, Shipwife.

They are eating me alive. The borebones are in the box and they are eating me alive.

Nearly done now, Caller.

It is so dark.

So dark and so very painful.

Agony. Searing, unbearable agony.

It is done now, Joron.

Rest.

You must rest.

So dark. So dark and so very painful.

Agony.

Searing.

Unbearable agony.