The Ivory Child Chapter 12 - The First Curse

In which the narrator awakens to captivity among the Black Kendah and learns of their venerable god, the Child, and its sinister adversary, the elephant Jana, amidst growing omens and a peculiar, devastating hailstorm that befalls their tormentors. Observing fearful rituals and ominous portents, he witnesses nature itself seeming to cast the first dread curse upon the land, shrouding all in a sombre veil of impending doom.