total trash mammal 

Monstrous existence

so harfest rolls around , mae’s alone , she witnesses something pretty fucking sketchy and like and sane person would do , she chases after them. instead when mae gets to the fence , she makes a split second decision to take off her witchdagger robe and jump it. eventually she follows the kidnapper all the way down to The Hole coming face to face with the worshippers. the ‘leader’ is the first one to talk directly to mae, letting her know that she should not have come down here so soon. he then goes on to explain being inside the hole, about ed skudder , the sacrifices and that he knows that she can hear his singing. not to say that they basically said that mae was ‘the chosen one’ , but the group did believe that if one could hear him sing then they definitely play a bigger part in the town’s future. 

of course mae doesn’t handle this too well, saying that she’ll threaten to tell the police, which the leader counters with reminding her that no one would believe her  ‘ what with your reputation and whatnot ’. from here, he preaches that even members are getting older and that it’s soon time for the next generation to follow in their steps and that mae is to be one of the first to be initiated. again, mae isn’t a fan and wants nothing to do with this. the leader then says , “you don’t have a choice. he sings to you for a reason, ignoring him would be a fatal mistake” and when that still wasn’t enough , they threatened to throw her or someone she knows into the hole (an empty threat by the way, they would never throw someone in unless they knew no one in town would miss them). 

and this was enough to frighten mae into obedience.