[HQ Ignorance] Scene 120: Hum Chang Ways

[Lev Lafayette]

Scene 120: Hum Chang Ways

The paths from Laonon Tao to the great isle of Hum Chung are many and
varied. One could take a junk, of which many are available for a usual
fee. The journey is long, a hundred leagues at least, across the shallow
Suam Chow sea. But this sea is heavily populated. Numerous islands dot
this great bay, nearly all have their own villages (an exception is
Goropheng, the Ruined City, once the court of Kralorela, now mostly
underwater, flooded during the Gods Age). The other method is to take
one of the Great Bridges of Godunya, each of which teaches lessons of
the path. The bridges are massive, the widest in the world, and the
strongest in the world, or so the people of Kralorela say. Kalen knows
better, as do some of the Fellowship, for they have seen the Nidian
Bridge. But surely bridges this great must have been made by the Dwarves
- there is no other explanation. But where are they?

The bridges are wide enough to be considered a major street in their own
right. Each side has houses jammed together and every seven leagues or
so the bridges have their own marketplace. But which one to take?

The Bridge of the One Way?
The Bridge of Heaven and Hell?
The Bridge of the Rainbow Way?
The Bridge of Light and No Light?
The Bridge of Liver and Bile and Honey?
The Bridge of Exarchs and other Immortals?
The Bridge of Beautiful Music, Transformational Sex, and Jade Thoughts?

And as you approach your return to the Egg, Seeker, what lessons have
you learned from this incarnation that you will take to the next, Tailed
Priest, Noble stage?

Have you been brave or cowardly? Energetic or lazy? Loyal or
independent? Merciful or cruel? Temperate or indulgent? Are you sure?
For when this choices are made there is no turning back.

And great Azhure, King of Seshnela, are you ready to make this journey?
Your life has been filled with fear of dragons, and now you are
travelling with neotenic dragon to a city where it is known that a True
Dragon, the August Dragon, lives.