Chapter 1: Let Me Speak First Of Revelations

The Silt Verses

Eskew Productions Ltd

Science Fiction, Eskew, The Silt Verses, Junji Ito, Ligotti, Horror, Horror Fiction, I Am In Eskew, Folk Horror, Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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At the town of Marcel's Crossing, Carpenter and Faulkner begin their search for other members of their forgotten river-god faith.

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0:00.0	Marco.
0:03.0	Polo
0:23.6	Marco
0:25.6	Polo I have spent my life.
0:52.5	I have spent my life in the shadow of this great and winding river.
0:55.0	I have always dwelt in the shadow of my God.
0:59.0	Marco!
1:02.0	Oh, Polo!
1:05.0	My Nana Glass, who knew the straits and sacred tides of the lower delta, better than any fisherman I ever met, would tell me that there were people who'd been born to the land, and there were people who'd been born to the water.
1:25.3	And the people born to the land who were grasping, controlling, clinging to life and wealth
1:32.3	as a sapling clings to the dead soul.
1:35.3	They would never understand what it meant to belong, as Nana and I did, body and spirit, to the water.
1:47.0	Carpenter. Polar, Faulkner?
1:52.0	He's dead.
2:05.7	The kneeling man, who's been bound to a post here in the depths of mudflats,
2:12.4	votive hooks cut into the flesh of his throat and ears.
2:16.5	His skin baked and dried by a dozen sunrises,
2:20.0	and his facial features eroded away into a sheet of curved white bone by a dozen high tides.
2:28.3	Is indeed dead.
2:33.8	We've been on the road for 16 days, and I am beginning to wonder if I can stand Faulkner at all.
2:44.9	He was well hidden. Almost missed him in the raids.
2:49.6	What, uh, what are you looking at?
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