The Book of Pentano - All Things Uru

!down.“There is no way to influence this because thethings are as they are. Everything we do is notinflicting the country too much pain. For it hurtsthe country when we take its treasures away.”“The earth is shaking? Does this mean there areearthquakes here?”“If it is that how you call it. The last was eightyears ago. We say the earth wakes up with fright, inthe way one wakes up after a bad dream and that iswhy she is shaking.”“What was it you wanted to show me here?”“The power of the water. It is always sinister anddark here. Rock eating ghosts are cowering on topof the waves and destroy the coast more and more.It is in a permanent change. If you come back herein a year it will look different again.”“Rock eating ghost? Oh you mean the white foamon the top of the waves!” She just shrugged andled him along. Their final visit was in the marshland.“Why are we going to this place? I didn’t find itvery…beautiful!”“It is not always about beauty. Everything hassomething good and bad, something beautiful andugly. This place is what we call the moaning earth.She moans because she dies and because herchildren die. But she does not know that somethingnew will grow!!