Crossing The Hinge requires speaking the milting semagrams aloud — a ritual I have performed often enough now that it feels almost like checking one's pockets before leaving the house. Van points out that the portal to the woad kingdom opened for his gruizer without semagrams, which raises the question of whether what I have been doing is strictly necessary or whether I have simply conditioned myself to believe it is — which is, in Hellsborough, arguably worse.
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Buried behind a lifetime's worth of accumulated rubble in the catacombs beneath the Freemasons pub at the crossroads was a sarcophagus I almost entirely dismissed as structural debris. What stopped me was the pumice — rough-carved by milting as some form of cosmically patient invitation — each block etched with semagrams smaller than a fingernail. Had I not spent the better part of a career training my hands to read what my eyes could not, Hellsborough and The Dark Peak would still be a set of Sheffield pub legends.
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