The old Saxon burial mounds are sinking, slowly caving in around the centre despite being supported by a stone chamber that protects the body within. Originally the geological scans of the cluster of mounds showed that each one was "in use" so to speak and showed no signs of structural anomalies.
There are rumours circulating that if you put your ear to the mounds late at night you can hear feet walking along stone paths as the dead walk towards their hidden afterlife citadel deep below the Sussex countryside. There's no proof though, the council refuse to allow anyone to dig up and have restricted all attempts in their legislative web.
It won't be long until the public gets to see what's inside the mounds anyway, there are cracks forming in the concave dirt, great splits that everyone's been trying to shine a light down. So far all that's been officially seen is the stone roof of the burial chambers but unofficially they've seen a lot more.
The beginnings of a vast staircase with figures in thick cloth and chainmail, helmeted and quietly conversing with each other in a dead version of our modern tongue. Some figures look up through the cracks,worming their fingers through to feel the sunlight and pull chunks of dirt aside.
The whites of their eyes are stained yellow, their skin the colour of bonfire ash. The running theories are that somewhere down the line they either stopped being human or they were never human to begin with. No bodies have ever been taken from the mounds, for all we know they buried things that they wanted to protect us all from and slowly they're letting themselves out.
Judging by the size of the cracks, it won't be much longer before we meet them face to face.
There are rumours circulating that if you put your ear to the mounds late at night you can hear feet walking along stone paths as the dead walk towards their hidden afterlife citadel deep below the Sussex countryside. There's no proof though, the council refuse to allow anyone to dig up and have restricted all attempts in their legislative web.
It won't be long until the public gets to see what's inside the mounds anyway, there are cracks forming in the concave dirt, great splits that everyone's been trying to shine a light down. So far all that's been officially seen is the stone roof of the burial chambers but unofficially they've seen a lot more.
The beginnings of a vast staircase with figures in thick cloth and chainmail, helmeted and quietly conversing with each other in a dead version of our modern tongue. Some figures look up through the cracks,worming their fingers through to feel the sunlight and pull chunks of dirt aside.
The whites of their eyes are stained yellow, their skin the colour of bonfire ash. The running theories are that somewhere down the line they either stopped being human or they were never human to begin with. No bodies have ever been taken from the mounds, for all we know they buried things that they wanted to protect us all from and slowly they're letting themselves out.
Judging by the size of the cracks, it won't be much longer before we meet them face to face.
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