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I was going to write a diary entry a while back, but never got around to it, about being followed in Beeley woods, part of the Wisewood close to the border with the netherlands, but I didn't ever get around to it. Anyway, I'm sure I've been back to Beeley woods since, and I did again today. There is a part of those woods known as the Dead wood, because the trees are twisted as if in their final death throes -- and in there, appropriately enough I found a makeshift camp with a spit, the kind of which is used to rotate meat over a fire. The place was deserted, but as I approached, a vision came to me of a human being being roasted over lapping flames. The person on that spit was me. I at once felt horribly disgusted to the core, yet also found it faintly erotic. I have no idea where the vision came from, since the apparatus that I observed has clearly yet to be used, and up until now no fire had scorched the earth below it, not that I could ascertain anyway. I'm not sure either whether I was alive on the spit, or already dead, which is a troubling thought in itself. I don't think I was followed on this visit, but the previous memory made me think that there were eyes that were watching -- could have been the organic network, of course, but you can usually tell the difference between the watching of trees and plants, and the watching of actual eyes.

This got me to thinking about who would commit such a heinous crime, and the answer can only be those who exist in the netherlands -- the location of the spit being close enough to the border that you can see it -- although technically in that area between the Dun and the Great Northern Causeway, which is still part of Hellsborough. Of course, if the perpetrators were one of the netherlander clans, that would make it human sacrifice and cannibalism. The dead wood is only a little way from the Dun itself, a place known in antiquity as somewhere where human sacrifice has taken place, as recorded in the famous lines:

The shelving, slimy river Dun,
Each year a daughter or a son.