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<span class="mu-g">I want to see what is down there too, you know. I've spent my whole life by this mountain. I bit my tongue when you and Nasir were speaking; since I know you are both educated and I am just a bumpkin, but now I know the truth- my traditions and mysteries that I've known for my whole life are right. Your belief about the curse is totally wrong. The curse is not by those who live on the mountain, it's those who die there. The mountain is cursed, yes, but its power only traps the spirits that die there and what dark forces it attracts. Going there only once a year is a waste of time. We should organize more trips at opportune times.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”...Alright. At this rate, I may not be able to get enough money as is, so I'm listening. I don't like being blackmailed into it though.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”You city folk don't know the rhythm of country life, but I figured you'd be used to a little blackmailing; hah! Anyway, we should go twice. The farms are way too busy in the planting and harvest seasons, and winter is too cold and the mountain is snowed in anyway, so we should go twice each year. Once in the spring, just after the melt and the ground softens right before we plant our crop, and again after the harvest, before the winter chill sets in. Summer is the time for relaxation but also war, and as such will be the time when we have the most ability to buy and sell our finds to traveling merchants, and the winter is a time for healing, training, and the many religious festivals and holidays that are good for the soul- and cures for curses and ill-energies of all kinds. What say you?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Hmm. I think this is a good plan. After all, the last two years I felt very anxious with nothing to do in this town, simply staring at that mountain every day dreading or dreaming of the next time I go within.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Just as the farmer lives according to the wheel of seasons, we live according to the same wheel. But instead of sowing the field with seed and reaping the grain, we will sow the dungeon with blood and souls, and reap the treasures from within. Farmers of the Mountain.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”...You speak so candidly of it. I thought I was the practical one.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Nasir was just one of many whose fate was sealed the moment he entered that cursed place. Perhaps seeing and helping souls into the next life has given me a different perspective; even dying in a place like that isn't a permanent hell. Next to eternity, eventually, even the most damned soul will find a way to pass on...”</span>
