Phase 1 Corrupted Images
From ILB
See The Widow's Journey for the pieced-together text from the corrupted images in Phase 1.
This is the image text in Phase 1 only. For text in later phases, see the Fact Reference. Pieces of text that were found in the same image but not all together are marked by / between sections.
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Common Files
BEE_LOGO.GIF
Instead of carrying them with / her, she scratched the ruby and each of the / greater blocks with her knife, marking / it as part of her Queen's domain.
BEEBACKG.GIF
And when this was so, the Widow worked / on, dry as sticks and patient as rust, driven / by a single need, which was to / return her Queen to splendor.
BUT_HOME.GIF
To carry out her task, / the Widow came with three / tools: an empty lantern, a staff made of bone, and / a sharp knife.
BUT_ABOUT.GIF
At last she had come to / the body of her lady. The / Queen lay cut and still and cold.
BUT_HONEY.GIF
So the Widow drew / her knife and slew / the Manticore and the way was open.
BUT_FUN.GIF
She cut her a new mouth and fed her / with fireflies and cakes of / sand, and at last the / Queen's heart began to beat.
BUTTHEHI.GIF
She walked through the empty / corridors of the Keep searching for her Queen, past / the bodies of her servants and subjects / that lay dead or enchanted.
CUTEBEE.GIF
Long and long she walked until she came to the / remnants of / the castle's outer / wall, but the / wall was low and broken, and the Widow passed through / like the bleak wind.
index.html
bee2_margaretphoto.jpg
To mend the queen's cuts the Widow took her sharp knife and / peeled skin from the bodies of her subjects, while the Queen's / new eyes and ears she cut from those who had been / her most trusted servants.
about.html
farnsworth-window.jpg
The Widow said, "I am the servant of your / Queen, and I have walked up out of Hell to prepare this / Keep for her return. Let me pass." But the Manticore did / not know her, and still he barred the way.
margaret.jpg
When her Queen died, / the Widow awoke. She was / driven by a single need, which / was to return her Queen to splendor.
danapicnic.jpg
At the feel of the Queen's pulse beneath her bony fingers, the Widow next took thought to proclaim through all the kingdom and into / other lands that time when her sovereign would once more be fit to rule. A firefly flew out from the Queen's / clockcase. Catching it in / her hands, the Widow asked it the time. / "Almost dawn," it said, but the Widow said, "The day will break and the sun will rise when the Queen returns to rule, and further let it be known that retribution on any who hinder the return of the Queen will be swift and terrible."
chloe.jpg
Continuing on her quest, she spied another chip of precious / stone, this time a sapphire no bigger than a winged / ant, glinting the cobbles of the courtyard / before the walls of the Inner Keep.
danadress.jpg
Within, she noticed what looked like a chip of precious / ruby from the Queen's crown, no bigger than a fly. Around / it lay many broken blocks from the ruined castle, scattered / across a wide plain of lodestone.
dana.jpg
The Queen was gone, and in her place lay only an empty crown. By great enchantment she had been mazed / in mirrors, and lay upon a lodestone floor amongst only her reflections. Long and long the Widow stood / in thought. Then she raised her bony staff and / speaking a spell, beheld herself within the mirrors: / and beholding herself, was within them. / And there, with the crown still upon / her brow, lay the Queen.
hives.html
langshivel.gif
The Sleeping Princess lay in a / chamber of the dungeon in a coffin of / glass where the Widow could not hear / her breathing.
CUTEBEE2.GIF
Meanwhile, the Pious / Flea was so small that / even the Widow, with her sharp / eyes, could hardly see him, / and when she looked his way, he hid.
bee_garden.jpg
At the gates of the Inner Keep all the guards were dead / but one, who when the palace was blasted by / enchantment had not died, but had been witched / into the form of a hideous Manticore.
smoker.jpg
Everything died, and I died with it, but after a / timeless time I began to dream, / and this is what I dreamed.
figure.jpg
There was once a fell enchantment that broke apart a mighty / castle, slaying many guards and reaching through the Inner / Keep to lay low / the Queen that held dominion there / and leave but a hollow crown behind.
honey.html
margarets_market.jpg
When she had made sure of her tools, / she opened her eyes and found herself in Hell / which was a dark place where no birds sang. Other / than the Widow, two / alone had escaped destruction.
groupofjars.jpg
Blind and uncertain in the darkness, the Widow needed light to use her tools, but the only light came from a few scattered fireflies. The Widow waited until one came close, then / grabbed it with her bony hands and trapped it in her lantern. After / some time, she found the firefly had gone, so she caught another and used it for light, and another when that one too had gone.
links.html
BEEWITHH.GIF
By the light of her lantern, she began / walking through Hell toward / the broken body of her Queen.
comatas.html
muses.gif
Searching with her lantern in / one hand and her staff in the other, she discovered that Hell / was made of hot dry sand.
contactme.html
na-cat.gif
To tend her, the widow would need light to work by. Studying the fireflies, she / found she could fit / many more inside her lantern, and this she did.
recipe8.html
BEE_LOGO-1.gif
greater blocks with/her knife, marking
(appears to just be a variant on BEE_LOGO.gif)
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