Rithör Læmbén writes of the sailor's escape from his pursuers. He takes a ship out of The City and is finally alone in his own thoughts. It’s revealed that he has a son who has been living in a cabin, and that the reason for his leaving is to raise the child. The mother’s identity is unknown at the moment. He wants to raise the child outside the corrupting sin of his line of work. Despite his best intentions though, he is caught in an internal struggle as he attempts to reconcile his past with his future of raising a child. He worries that a man with his past, won’t be able to raise a decent, moral child and eventually man when he himself has lived a life of sin, surrounded by immoral characters. Caught in this conflict, he thinks about his worst fears for his son, that he grows up to be an indecent man who preys on women like himself. In my opinion, this fear might also be associated with the identity of the mother.
Í Ænçquirii -o Mýsterûi
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(translated) The Inquiry of Mystery
A home removed, a life resumed right here.
The Beast, feared the Roaring Feast,
The book and the bond between she and Me has long since broken.
A Boy who’s grown, too short to see,
A tale unfold, too tall to be.
A life once lived behind closed doors,
The irony on these pensive tomes.
Touch, Taste,
Feel it ripping me down.
Reprise, two times, burn it to the ground.
The Inquiry of Mystery. The expiry of misery. The table turns.
The sun along the riverbed and he’s alone;
Her object of affection, conflicted by convictions of
Indecency, sorority, corrupted by impropriety.
The cavalier he hopes of him in dissonance with experience
The Boy who grows with knife in hand
To fend for them becomes a man
- The Icelost Years (translated by Rithör Læmbén)
Scene III: The Inquiry of Mystery
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