The Hero and the Hermit

You have offered me your fire. I offer you a story.

You asked of the mad river first. They say the souls of the dead are trapped in its currents. Lost and driven insane with loneliness and despair, they entice thirsty travellers. When the unwary pilgrim touches the water, the dead take their hand and pull them into the river to join them. Their living souls are entwined with the dead and washed together into the haunted sea, trapped for eternity.

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