Wintu’s Letters

First Letter

Sishu, I wish you could see this place! I know I left without telling you, and I’m sorry, but you wouldn’t understand. I hope this note finds you. I’m sending it via a traveler headed back to Sigil from Gehenna. He won’t tell me how he’s getting back, but he seems pretty confident.
I just left the Crawling City. Dad would always tell us about it and his ‘daring escape’ from the Yugoloths. I never knew how much of it was made up, but seeing it now, with my own eyes…If he was exaggerating, it wasn’t by much.
I’m here with allies. I can’t tell you much, as I don’t know who will be reading this letter, but I wanted to let you know I’m okay. I’m here with Her. She’s showing us such amazing things. There are creatures–such fantastically powerful ones–that live between the cracks. They whisper to us when we’re with Her, showing us what is coming, what they are bringing, when we open the door…I hear them knocking.
We went to the City to scout it out for the next phase. We flew in while it was docked at the Night Market, then back out hours later before it left. Now, we are to wait here in the Market until the right time.
I know you won’t understand what I’m doing, but I promise you: It’s to save us. Dad always talked about what would happen if the Crawling City fell. The whispers he heard while enslaved there.
The world is changing. I’m doing this to make sure we have a place in the new one.
Love,
Wintu

Second Letter

Sishu
i know as i am known and i am known and known and known
they reach out and reach out and reach out hundreds and thousands and billions of times
swordword swordword swordword falling up through the thatch
testing
testing the walls
but the walls are strong
they are strong protected held
all scrying pools are lying the ripples point nowhere
watched
at least above
above they are watched
above the watchers watch themselves watching
below
not below they are not
i am below
i am below below below you and all
beneath the beneath under the underlayer of underlayers
she peeled her truename off and underneath was another name and underneath was the wall
i sit stare into their eyes and they reach to me
i will touch the weapon
i will mark it
MARK IT MARK IT MARK IT
it will be strong
it will hold them
hold them hold hold hold
I am sorry
Sishu
my beloved sister
my blood-sister my shadow-sister my name-weaver
i and he and she will mark it for Her
then then a rebirth
a washing
mindwashing
You will not understand but
I have
to
do
this.
Her has commanded it.
They have commanded it.
they will be ours and we will ride
ride the currents between planes ride the scream when reality tears
i cannt hold this in my
my mind
mind
mynd hurts
sishu
shishu hushi hush sishhhhh

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