Pāhonoa te oro

Following her arrival the fear of the runewriter, which was tangible in the guard towers since the twenty-seventh, only spread and grew stronger. Those who beheld her when she came, and those who were given to carry her meals, spun the testimonies of the eerie, sinister creature in the under-halls. They said they heard her whispering blasphemy and curses just before they entered the halls, and they said that she never spoke a human word, always in a kind of entranced, heavy silence. They said sh