The Book of Temples Chapter 37

People used magic to end the disease, the Wasting Slumber had passed. Hand and Knife was pleased. Her People were safe but her disease still thrived. For Greedy Noble’s People contracted it while they were visiting. They brought to their home the Wasting Slumber where it had spread rapidly. They knew its source not nor how to fight it, but the Child God knew their kin. Greedy Noble told their People to go back to Hand and Knife’s temple. Go and accuse her of pestilent crimes and demand she give a cure. The healthy people, those unaffected would make the journey eastward. Visitors returned to Hand and Knife’s land and entered the settlement. They only saw hale people in this place. They were now free of disease. Strangers demanded that Hand and Knife come to meet and discuss her crimes. For Greedy Noble had revealed to them that she had caused this disease. They said she must bring a cure that they could take home to heal their people. Hand and Knife’s people, they laughed and…