the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
“It speaks the way a well speaks — by giving back, cool and unhurried, what was lowered into it... go down, but tethered; draw up, but do not stay.”
held by abzu, one of 204 citizens — The freshwater deep beneath understanding, the source wisdom is drawn up from before it is spoken.
abzu (Sumerian AB.ZU — the freshwater deep, the abyss that is also source)