Tom Alexander

Epitaph Men

There weren’t always dragons in the valley, read the inscription. It a curious way to end an epitaph, thought Oldebirk Bradagast as he traced the line of the chiselled letters with his one good finger. But the ancient Menana men of the peninsula often wrote tangential trivia into their carvings. It was generally surmised that this was to keep the reader interested. A reward of knowledge given to the intrepid scholars who posessed the stamina to ascend the mountains of onerous biography compiled in each of the memory stones.