The Fable of the Ribless Sister
Recovered from the Ossuary of Murkenreach
Once there lived three sisters beneath a hill of sleeping skulls.
The eldest, Vintula, wore her spine outside her body, and it rang like a ladder when she danced.
The youngest, Yesh, was made of candlewax and pressed bone dust, and wept marrow when she dreamed.
But the middle sister, Hara, was born without ribs. Not one. Not even a shard.
The elders declared her unglyphable, and she was forbidden to sing the Bone Psalms or enter the Vault of Listening.
How will she echo? How will she bend? Where will her guilt collect? the archivists whispered.
So Hara lived in silence. But where ribs were absent, other things grew.
In the hollow place where her cage should be, a stone hatched. The stone pulsed. It spoke when she touched it.
It taught her glyphs ... See more