Literature
The Story of Split Rock Rena
The Tale of Split Rock Rena
Deep in ground,
and all around,
with spiders everywhere,
is a shimmering black
that'll stab your back,
and retreat to the caves
a'fore dawn.
There was a farmer named Taldain, once a thick, sinewy man whipped by the ravages of time into a sun-stained husk of his former self, his once plump wife Merra growing wrinkled and even thicker, and their boys getting old enough to start farms on their own. The time came at last when his fields no longer produced grain, so he packed up his donkey and his things, and he and his wife set off to the mountains where they would bother nothing and no one.
One evening, as th