When I get back to the village, I make my way over to the river, heading upstream when I meet it. Door mentioned he was working on the filtration pumps earlier and I want to tell him and Rifle all about what happened. As I pass the crabroach pens on the other bank, several of the ranchers wave at me, knee-deep in slow-moving water as they herd a group of the scuttling creatures up towards the milking and silking stations. I wave back, calling out a brief hello, and continue on.

Several minutes later, the roaring splash of the Shrine of Saint Curie fills my ears, a subsonic tremble building into an audible vibration. Another ninety seconds of walking sees me round the bend in the river, and my destination appears before me - a broad stone structure nearly twenty scrumbles tall-

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