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The Goosemother Scroll - The Conclusion"Hello, Sister," said the other pig.

"This is a trick!" said Pyg, but deep within her, she knew the Master was Dawnsong, the brother taken in her stead on the night of their birth. But how did he know her?

"This is a trick!" she repeated as if to convince herself. "My mother said Dawnsong was dead!"

"Dawnsong? Is that what I was to be named?" said the Master. "I am named Strangeborn, but no one calls me that anymore. Your mother - that is, our mother - never took the trouble to find out what became of me. For that I can't blame her. Who is a pig against the wolves?"

The Master's voice dripped with sarcasm. Who, indeed, was a pig amongst t
The Goosemother Scroll Episode 15The Unspeakable Oath. When the living make a deal with the dead. All who commit such dealings are doomed to serve the Ghosts of Men for a thousand years. For the dead men can claim the bodies of the living, but never their souls... without permission. Such permission Leap granted the spirits when he spoke in the ancient tongue aboard the black ship. In exchange, he asked for safe passage into the Elephant Lands and for the life of his friend. All this Estruthia had seen in the young wolf's eyes, but it was far too late for the priestess' magic to save him. Now the dead had claimed their prize and left a wound in Pyg's heart among so many othe
The Goosemother Scroll Episode 14All was quiet in the elephant graveyard. Here, the bones of the ancients lay scattered, huge and broken, like ruins of a once great city.

"Is it really all right for us to be here?" Pyg whispered to the ostrich priestess.

"It is an honor," the priestess answered. "An elephant's invitation to a graveyard is their way of introducing you to their ancestors as a friend. Her majesty is not only paying homage to the ancients but asking them to protect us."

Pyg nodded and watched as the queen and her soldiers wandered wordlessly among the bones, picking them up, curling their trunks around them. Weeks ago, Pyg would have thought it a peculiar cus

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The companion illustration to the fourteenth audio episode of The Goosemother Scroll: [link]

The rest of The Goosemother Scroll (31 Days of Halloween 2012): [link]
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~Ayla142 Oct 30, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Darn it Leap! I liked him! And the Elephant Queen....
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~Axeliloveyou201 Oct 30, 2012  Student General Artist
farewell leap i salute you *salutes*
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