A battered paperback rests on a stone plinth, half-buried in sand. Its cover is gone. Its pages are soft with the hands of strangers.
"The world is not mostly harmless. It is mostly strangers who became briefly familiar, and left you better than they found you."
The words are pencilled where the title used to be. The desert says nothing either way.
THE ROADS SO FAR
M OR TAP TO CLOSE · DIM STARS ARE ROADS NOT TAKEN
REASON42 / WORMHOLE
THE WANDERER'S MAZE
a journey in eight lands
The Guide has this to say about walking: it is the only known form of travel in which
the destination is demonstrably the least important part. Every other method gets this
backwards, which is why every other method involves queueing.
Somewhere ahead: eight pieces of wisdom, a relic, and a ship. The road will fork.
Both ways are correct.
HOLD → OR D TO WALK · ↑ TO STEP THROUGH GATES · M MAP · S SOUND