Seven generations ago in the World Above, our people's Speaker called our forefathers together. They gathered in cold and spoke of death.
We entered the World Below as the end began, with the Speaker's words in our ears: For one life, they will die. In the second life, they will be dead. In the third life, silence. In the fourth life, they will be born again, and in the fifth, they will prepare the way for us.
My father's father's father's father's father heard those words from the Speaker himself when he was but a boy. Now, I go to reclaim what's left of the World Above.
