Sean

Civilizations make a very dangerous assumption.

Eljara

Which is?

Sean

They assume that because they stopped believing in something…

(He watches London beneath the summer haze.)

Sean

…that thing ceased to exist.

Eljara

That seems reasonable.

Sean

Only if belief created it.

(A pause.)

Sean

What if belief merely acknowledged it?

(Silence.)

Eljara

That is a different question.

Sean

Exactly.

(Factories work. Trains move. Telegraph wires stretch across the horizon.)

Eljara

The modern world prides itself on removing superstition.

Sean

No.

It prides itself on replacing it.

Eljara

With science.

Sean

With certainty.

(A faint smile.)

Eljara

For thousands of years people left bread.

Lit fires.

Walked the boundaries of fields.

Sean

Because they remembered.

Eljara

Remembered what?

(Sean looks toward the distant countryside.)

Sean

That they were not alone.

(A long silence.)

Eljara

The Green Man again.

Sean

The Green Man.

The Fair Folk.

The Hidden People.

The Old Ones.

Eljara

Different names.

Sean

Perhaps.

(The city bell strikes the hour.)

Eljara

Then why did the rituals disappear?

Sean

Because people became modern.

Eljara

And nothing happened.

Sean

At first.

(That answer lingers.)

Eljara

You think the consequences take time.

Sean

A wall does not collapse the day repairs stop.

A field does not fail the day it is neglected.

(A pause.)

Sean

Some things wait.

Eljara

You think something is waiting.

Sean

No.

(Silence.)

Sean

I think something is still behaving exactly as it always has.

Eljara

And humanity changed.

Sean

Yes.

(The city suddenly feels very small.)

Eljara

What if you’re right?

(Sean watches the gaslights ignite one by one.)

Sean

Imagine speaking to someone every year for a thousand years.

Eljara

And then stopping.

Sean

Without explanation.

Without farewell.

Without even remembering the conversation existed.

(A very long silence.)

Eljara

What would the other side think?

(Sean never looks away from the darkening horizon.)

Sean

That is precisely what worries me.

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Game: Pulp Cthulhu: By Gaslight
Campaign: Mythveil Chronicles
Theme: June · Summer · The Silence After the Prayer · Forgotten Conversations

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The dossiers.

The forgotten covenants.

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