Oh I get so close! Yet it feels so far away! The gods teach me a lesson I am sure for all they have forsaken this place. As I pass into the town with its disturbing familiarity despite the horror to be found there I often pause briefly despite the danger to think on what must have passed, what terrors occurred to make the gods leave and to leave the people so desperate. Did the people themselves forget their gods and so were left to their fate? Is this terrible dark land a reminder that there but for the gods go we? Is it a glimpse into the future? I suppress that thought whenever it comes forth. If we believe that suggestion then for what do we fight? We fight to ensure this is NOT the future. I believe the gods allow us these glimpses to fortify us. Oh how many more nightmarish creatures must I face before my little book is full enough? As many as the gods see fit I suppose. Al least my mind is calmed and the darkness dispelled by the light of one so dear. If, as they say, I be a light it must be the tiniest glimmer indeed – yet wherever light is, however little of it, darkness is not.