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The Silt Verses

Chapter 27: So I'll Bear It Trembling Onwards

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

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On either side of the border, two separate groups of fugitives find themselves running for their lives.


This episode features: William A. Wellman, Graham Rowat, Jasper Locke, JV Hampton Van-Sant, B. Narr, Méabh de Brún, Cait Gallagher, Lucille Valentine, Jimmie Yamaguchi, and the Host from We Are Not Meant To Know.


Transcript: https://www.thesiltverses.com/transcript-season-2-chapter-12


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0:00.0

And if you're just joining us, we're following up on last night's reports of a deadly tragedy upon the Bessarale Correctional Facility on the southern coast,

0:13.6

or a mass hallowing appears to have gone wrong, or more likely, to have come under some kind of attack.

0:19.9

Normally, these facilities are, of course, well protected against any kind of hostile transformation.

0:25.6

But we now understand that it was upon this occasion the walls, the floor, the reinforced concrete of the sacrificial chamber itself that erupted.

0:34.6

Hostilities have been continuing into this afternoon, but by the grace

0:39.4

of Channel 12, we've just learned that a press helicopter has got close enough to capture

0:44.0

footage from the prison itself. We're getting this now, live for the first time. You can see

0:53.1

the prison roof and walls themselves have erupted into a vast tree-like structure,

1:00.0

presumably a saint of some kind, although not from a faith that our researchers recognize.

1:05.0

We believe that saint was Esther Gramman, an inmate at the facility who was scheduled to be hallowed last night.

1:11.6

Those are human bodies, visible, impaled upon the branches, presumably prison personnel.

1:18.6

We apologize for showing those. Hopefully they can be blurred.

1:22.6

And you can see there, the branches still moving. They're...

1:29.3

...plowering with white crocus.

1:39.3

I must stress, of course, that we don't know yet whether agents of the peninsula were involved, but this is beginning to...

1:48.4

Hey, uh, you mind changing the channel?

1:51.6

Getting on my nerves a bit.

1:54.3

Fucking pennies.

1:56.2

They're not all so bad.

1:57.7

I'm just saying, you know, maybe cooler heads can prevail this time around.

2:01.9

Come on, Dennis. You saw that. They haven't changed. Never will.

2:08.6

Well, who amongst us should be denied a second chance.

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