Chapter 42: I'll Wheeze Through Splintered Teeth

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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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Please note - this episode ended up being massive, so we split it into two separate hour-long chapters! Hope you enjoy listening to them both - this is the second chapter.

Transcript: https://www.thesiltverses.com/transcript-season-3-chapter-12a

Episode description:

At the river's wellspring, a prophet discovers that he's come to loathe his station, his followers, his faith - and himself. In Glottage, three renegades plot to overthrow the government. Across the channel, a saint attempts to become a god.

Content warnings:

This episode contains suicidal ideation, multiple scenes of body horror, and murderous infants.

This episode features:

B. Narr, H.R. Owen, Alex Nursall, Rhys Lawton, Erika Sanderson, Méabh de Brún, Sarah Griffin, Jimmie Yamaguchi, Marta da Silva, and William A. Wellman.

Additional voices by Gabriel Robinson, David Ault, Lou Sutcliffe, AJ Fidalgo, Erika Sanderson, Kale Brown, Jesse Syratt, and Rae Lundberg.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Now that I have nothing and nobody left in this world, what else can they do but take me home.
0:35.5	Shivering beneath my towel, I instructs sibling rain, Barry, Burnley, that my father's cabin must be left intact.
0:37.6	Casey someday returns.
0:39.9	"'A note left for my brother explaining everything.
0:44.6	"'I'm quite certain I hear sibling rain
0:48.2	"'telling one of the other disciples very quietly
0:52.0	"'that the cabin is to be burnt burnt once we're safely out of sight.
0:59.1	Then it's a two-week drive upriver to the Grand Aquifer in an unmarked car,
1:09.5	hesitating at every turn and flinching at every set of headlights that comes roaring up the road to meet us.
1:16.2	Sleepless nights and abandoned churches, the faith in basements of a few fervent and bedraggled worshippers,
1:24.6	who beg me for my forgiveness for the mildewed mattresses and bad food,
1:31.3	and beg me in turn for my reassurance that we will triumph over the false Southern Council,
1:38.7	led by the false High Catabasian grieve and her allies,
1:43.3	the villains who mean to turn us over to the lawful authorities.
1:50.0	Of course will prevail, I tell them.
1:54.8	The pure water shall cleanse the polluted.
1:58.9	The river rises.
2:01.8	And they repeat it back to me. The river rises. And they repeat it back to me.
2:04.5	The river rises.
2:07.0	The river rises.
2:09.3	Like I've just handed them their first full meal in months.
2:15.1	Sibling rain keeps firmly insisting to our hosts that we are in fact winning our civil war up and down the length of the white goal.
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