Talon`s Diary - Day 3

Day 3:  In the soft walls Lindsay visited.  She talked about a way to get me free and gave me what I call now the "folder of truths" and kissed me goodbye as this was maybe one of the last times I would ever see her.  When I read the story of the crazy engineer of the name of Alfred Beach who built this place, and how the outcasts went to live in the downside and taught their kids to hate the topside, it made me feel like everything I ever knew was a lie.  I cried and threw everything to the floor.  I picked it back up and told the guard, "I wish to be let go."  The guard was scared because I came back from the dead.  After the third time asking, he did it.  To see if this folder was telling the truth or not, I knew exactly where to go...

I walked down a flight of stairs to a floor burning with fire lit by gas, and I knew where I was and needed to be.  The first rune.  And in there were the rune sentries guarding it.  I approached and stopped just out of attacking length.  "If you take one step closer, we will kill you.'' said one of the sentries. I showed them the folder and say I must be allowed in.  "Impossible" said another sentry.  ''If you were one of them you would be in there no matter what your paper says."  ''Nevertheless, I must pass'' I replied.  "Only the most-beloved are allowed in.'' said the other sentry. That is why I must pass.  It took a moment before the guards noticed what I suggested (that they can make me most- beloved by a turn of a gas key).  Then one broke his stance and took the key from his neck and let me pass.  When I saw the chamber it was a cemetery, and there was one big sign and it said...

                                                                             ALFRED ELY BEACH
                                                                              Born September 1, 1826
                                                                                 Died August 5, 1905
                                                                                 MOST BELOVED
                                                                  of All those who dwell in the downside city.

Then I knew that the folder was true.