🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

—You're being too categorical... We will all end up in the ground eventually, but the beauty of human nature lies in finding values in life that will allow us to postpone the inevitable, even if only for a short time. What if you find a hobby that you enjoy as much as mining? Who knows, maybe you have a writer hidden inside you! And then, years later, young miners will read your Manuals, and I will use them as a basis to create new bills to improve the living standards of the workers of Asuguh, right?

- A writer? But what would I write about? You have to be underground, in the rock, standing on that ground with your own feet, breathing that air with your own lungs, seeing that amazing world with your own eyes. Holding a pickaxe in your own hands and discovering views never seen before. Reading about it on the pages of a book is completely different; ink on paper will never replace your own sweat! And if not about that, then what else could I write about? About how Siksi is unrecognizable compared to his twenty-year-old self, and how there are now as many foreign faces there as there are our own? But what's the point? Everyone already understands everything. Maybe about the arrival of Akonia last New Year? But I didn't see it with my own eyes, so I don't believe it. Maybe she didn't even come, and everything they say about her is Margel propaganda! They want to raise their status in the eyes of other states after the collapse of the empire, or something else. I once read about Naria, the previous ruler, and saw photographs and portraits - she definitely never held a pickaxe in her life! She probably had all her problems in life because of that; if she had worked honestly, she might have been happier - but in every picture, she looks so gloomy, as if she is being tortured every morning. Or maybe that's just the fate of monarchs; I don't know - our leader is like a zombie, with empty eyes, as if you're looking into the abyss. So, you better become a miner too, or you'll end up like them.