#tfod

the first live performance of The Foundations of Decay (May 16th, 2022)

Like, imagine, you've lived out your life, and it hasn't been easy. Your mother died in childbirth, and you were raised by the local innkeepers, who didn't neglect you but didn't fully love you either. People found you odd and unsettling, and you often felt alone. At 21, you got married to a man you did not love, who was awful to you because you could not have children, and you left the day he hit you. By a stroke of luck he became fabulously wealthy, the town's mayor, and he took it out on you. To make a living, you learned medicine, and then you attended and fell in love with the town's reeve and his three children. You learned to read to tutor them. You had been living in a small town so isolated that you were unaware while the ripples of the larger society's collapse made its way down the drying river (THE DEMON BLOOD RIVER BTW) to your home. The townspeople got sick and started dying all around you as you did your best to attend to them. Your love and his children died. Your old husband died. Your foster parents died. The sickness never touched you. The remaining people whisper that because of your learning and your knowledge of medicine, you are a witch who cursed this place. You pass away at eighty, frozen and alone.

And then you wake up on your twenty first birthday, and none of that actually happened.

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