Names for the Mouth

Under the flooded chapel of Saint Lute, a saint walled into the sump eats names and calls it prayer. The lamps stay lit. The people who paid for the light do not come back up as themselves.

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Ending promise · contains a broad spoiler

Happily never after

Series DNA

The drowned saint in the sump keeps the mine's lamps burning if she is fed a true name. Miner Harl Wick has started choosing which names, and the saint has started loving him for it. Neither of them is going to stop.

Cast

Ise Calder

witness · wants Wall the stair and take the dark if that is the price

Harl Wick

antagonist · wants Keep the lamps on and choose the names himself so worse men do not

The Mouth

protagonist · wants Be fed, be spoken to, and be let up the stair

Names for the Mouth

4,008 published words · 80,000 planned

Ch. 1: Under the Pressure of Names — subscribe to unlock