The Wooden City Of Unhappiness

There was a city in the Native American continent called Wapanglui. Although Wapanglui was rich and prosperous and was free of European exploitation and slavery, it suffered from bouts of depression and loneliness. The people described the feeling as being continuously attached to one thing without being able to move on. No one knew this abysmal reason of being sad and thought that the city was cursed in some way.

Nahua, an intuitive boy in the village, decided it was about time he did something about it. He tried to use his natural intuitive power and came to the conclusion that there was something unearthly in their city which 

held people onto their lives and wasn’t freeing anyone from its supernatural hold. One night, he tried to listen through the doors of the great wooden city with impenetrable walls and heard voices of captivity, jealousy, sorrow, hatred and all other possible combinations of negativity. 

He concentrated hard and to his amazement, the abstract feelings and ideas bore great, dark and terrifying figures. They looked like humans but seemed to have the worst abomination of features. These captive spirits told Nahua that they were the souls of the forefathers of Wapanglui and that due to their past misdeeds, greed and excessive attachment to materialistic life, they were unable to move on and their souls were stuck on earth. They were mainly in the form of energies in the purgatory phase and they were slowly losing some part of their energy to the city. This would explain the city’s unnatural sadness and their malformed shapes. They requested Nahua to break all the wooden walls of the city and to set them free. Nahua proceeded to work and with great difficulty was able to liberate all spirits. The city dwellers eventually caught him in the process and he was arranged to be hanged the next day as he was proclaimed a rebel. Even though Nahua cursed his fate, he was sure that he wasn’t going to be trapped in the city walls. This thought gave him some hope of moving to the afterlife.