The Starless Sea

They take an unspoken vow to no longer tell their own stories in reverence to the ones that came before and to the ones that shall follow

What is a single house, after all, with nothing surrounding it? Without a yard for the dog. Without a complaining neighbor across the street, without a street to have neighbors on at all? Without trees and horses and stores. Without a harbor. A boat. A city across the sea.

That somewhere there are tongueless acolytes in a subterranean library?