Seaman’s Pinocchio

Seaman’s Pinocchio.

Upon black sand shores lived a man who could not help but look back at his life with regret every single day. His hair turned grey and he became thin. This man was a fisherman, but also made wooden dolls and sold them at the market.

His biggest regret was never having a family, a child. One day at the market a tall man dressed in all black noticed that this fisherman looked drained of joy. He came up to him and asked him what was wrong, he also introduced himself as a priest of a KDS order. The fisherman never heard of this order, but he shared a few things with this stranger and also sold him some fish. The priest told the man that through his order his dreams can come true. All he had to do was to come meet him on the cliffs at night and listen to the cosmic whispers. The man was confused, but agreed.

That night the man came to the cliffs. It was dark and windy and the priest laid him down on the rocks. He performed a ritual and told him to close his eyes and listen. Terror grasped the fisherman’s body as he really did hear horrifying voice in his head. The voice asked him what he was seeking and the man said that he wanted to leave someone younger than him behind, he didn’t just want to fade away.

When the man got up, the priest asked him what he heard. The fisherman said that the voice told him to go out into sea on a boat and bring a wooden doll with him. The priest nodded and said that it had to be done that way.

The next day the fisherman went out into the sea, he kept rowing and rowing, after some time he began to lose sight of the shore and fear came over him. What if it was all just madness?

It was madness indeed, but a madness driven by Khul Duhl Suhl.

The fisherman heard the voice again, and this time the voice demanded that the man pledged his soul to Khul Duhl Suhl, and then his wish would come true. Shaking the man took of his hat and agreed. He heard whispers in a strange language and fell overboard dead.

A small wooden doll of a boy sat up in the boat. Khul Duhl Suhl trapped the man’s body inside the doll.

Indeed he left something younger behind and the man wouldn’t just fade away.