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The Doclopedia #2,879
366 Days, 366 Paragraphs: #119
There, he had to do a bit of altering of facts, so Ala would not think that he and his friends had spent great amounts of time drinking, gambling and whoring, which they had. He told her about all of the places and things he had seen, like the Land of Geysers and the great herds of bison on the plains. She was amazed by his description of the Mountain of Great Faces and the Ancient Town of Sturgis, a place no Roadbound person would ever go anywhere near.
“Is it really an preserved Ancient Town? Does the Road really bend around it? My people go many miles north or south to avoid it.” She had always heard that Sturgis was a cursed place, or maybe a warning of what humankind had done to deserve Downfall, or even a place of terrible danger. It really depended upon who told the story. Her mother had always gone with the cursed story.