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Sorrow’s Rhyme
by Moxiane
- ”It creeps me out, every time I hear them singing it. Where do they learn it from?”
- - Golden Raven, concerned parent
- "Tickety-tick,
- The demon crown,
- Tockety-tock,
- Tumbled down,
- Tickety-tick,
- Lord Sorrow bound,
- Tockety-tock,
- Him in the ground,
- Tickety-tick,
- If he gets free,
- Tockety-tock,
- He will eat me.”
- - the rhyme as sung by a child of Nexus
For as long as anyone has lived in the city of Nexus the children have chanted Sorrow’s Rhyme, and for just as long the parents have wished that they wouldn’t. No investigation into its source has ever been successful, and neither have any of the attempts to suppress it, the most recent of which is still going on, sponsored by the Immaculate Ayeva of the Thousand Flower Temple, one of the few such to the Immaculate Philosophy within Nexus.
A recent story in The Nexus Scuttlebutt said that although the rhyme was chanted by kids all over the city, it becomes more common the closer one gets to Sentinel’s Hill, with The Square of Unformed Destiny being the place where it is sung most often. The rest of the city gave that article as much credence as it does every other story in the paper – none.
Rumours
- Older children who continue to chant Sorrow’s Rhyme are more likely to become thaumaturges and demonologists than their fellows.
- Somewhere in Sentinel’s Hill there is an underground temple where the street-children go to at nights, there to chant Sorrow’s Rhyme and perform dark rites.
Secret
- There is truth to Sorrow’s Rhyme. There is a powerful demon bound deep under the earth, and the continued chanting of the rhyme is a part of the magic that keeps the demon buried, renewing the sorcery on a daily basis with a little Essence from every child who chants it, and ensuring its own survival by implanting the rhyme into the minds of children while they sleep.
