Fragments of Apocrypha

[Erudiche]

[Disorganized segments, journals, shreds of Gospel, the epistolary and piecemeal journal of Lamashtu Abyzed.]

A House Has Four Walls.

A Wall of Blood, a Wall of Flesh, a Wall of Stars, a Wall of Gold. Outside of these there is no substance. Within these there is no meaning.

In Urazzir's House there is His Scale. The scale is weighted against a single PALE FEATHER. The dead procession give one by one their smoking hearts to the scale, in his grasp, and if that heart should prove heavier than the feather they shall be subject to eternal torment.

She asked in her blindness if this should mean all shall be punished.

That is the first lesson.

A House Has Four Walls.

[Erudiche]

Burn the Apostle in Assuru.

The Gold King spoke, and full of his talking raised his slaves, who raised works in His Name.

She came to us, young and honest. Yet unmarred. Child eyes beheld bloated entrails floating in the bayou. She could not feel the blades in her back. She had grown numb to the pain. She did not know they were there.

I offer three signs: ash, ruin, and blood. Know my works by them.

Time is short. The Dead Legion must rise. A New Well, purified, must be born.

Death to the traitors!

[On the pages to follow, the phrase "Death to the traitors!" is written again and again and again in inerrant obsessive rows.]