Occasionally an adventure-minded leader would suggest building long ropes to climb up to Ingle-Land. Shamans suggested the entire earth was rotten, and that they would be climbing from one hell, to an identical or worse facsimile. People liked the word facsimile. They no longer new what it meant, exactly, but took solace in fragments of their shared past. Written by Hugh Dichmont New edit released 21st April 2020