Editing Sigil:Far Fields (section)

== What the Dead Do ==

The question children eventually ask is also the question theologians cannot answer:

'''What do people do in the Far Fields all day?'''

There is no good answer because the question assumes that ''day'', ''doing'', and perhaps even ''people'' mean the same thing beyond death that they mean here.

Rhone stories imagine walking, talking, farming, feasting, resting, and reunion.

Uragh stories imagine contests, riding, hunting, wrestling, boasting, and gathering around fires.

Seylandri stories imagine wandering beneath immense trees, singing, remembering, and becoming part of a living forest without losing oneself within it.

All may be metaphor.

All may contain some truth.

None should be promoted into celestial itinerary.

The Far Fields remain meaningful precisely because they are not overdescribed. A mystery sufficiently explained ceases to be a mystery and becomes merely another country.