The Sentence That Hangs Below the Line

Sit, $N, and let me tell you what Undercurl actually is. Before the Book was bound, one page held a line of letters that hung below the rest, the kind with tails: a word about roots, or falling, or reaching down for something the sentence above it could not name. The Binders' presses are built for letters that sit neatly on the line, and a whole page of hanging tails jammed the type every time they tried to set it. Rather than trim the tails off and lose the word entirely, they cut the page loose, and the Ink Tide carried it here, where every spire still hooks back down at the tip like a letter trying to finish its own descent. We build hanging gardens on every curl because it is the one shape this island knows how to grow into, $N; I have written that down more carefully than the Glossator managed, though they came closer to guessing what the word was. They left their own hook out at Farhook before they went looking for the rest of the sentence.

Experience

21000

Currency reward

1g 62s 0c

Repeatable

No

Sigil

Ledger and ink