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unbound & the homestead refuses its guardian, then gnome, or crafter of pentacles, mimics calcium carbonate from the swell between cheeks, to be modest they build a lighthouse schizophrenic & sneaks out on their way. The !rst time it's done is by their lord, {fuck the lord}, so they have to build another tower to keep abreast of everything. The tower's still there, so the next attempt to construct it fails, and the next time it happens as so that the young loose appendages near frost of dawn, its hiccup, only to have some jackal/ woolen lizard/eel/fowl swoop in and retreat back to nest. They then !nally have enough of all these animals— tolerating a lighthouse to take the thing down, and have the next day an all out disaster, so they start demolishing all their towers because the local inhabitants are so afraid. They also start running away, all while initiating their next act of tyranny, to !nd a place to rebuild something that doesn't fall off the tower, so they start making the tower as large as possible and putty it with nails. There's the whole house there where the towers take shape in. But, after a couple of weeks, the roof blows off and there isn’t anybody inside —except for a small man, naked tweeting endlessly into the Babbler’s void.