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The Well

The entire village depends on this well for all their water needs.
And so respected is this well that, songs and paintings were created to glorify it.

But it looks really like any typical well.
Old, broken, ugly...
Yes, ugly.
You know, fairy tales often have this twist about ugly things: they are really beautiful deep within.

But not for this well.

This well really is ugly.
And at the bottom of the well, you can see why.

The floor of the well lies an animal.
A rotting animal.
A rotting python.
A rotting python with a dead and rotting baby boy in its embrace...

And though the python is rotting,
it is not dead.

Every morning, just before sunrise,
the creature would open its mouth to chew a piece of the rotting boy,
unleashing the deadly stench of death into the waters of the well...

Just in time for the villagers to draw their daily supply of water.

I shan't write more.

How did it get here?
Don't the villagers know a thing about it?
Who is the dead boy?

posted by Si'er @ Friday, September 23, 2005