Benches on which people gather to be appalled by the horror of the most awful events from all around the worlds (summoned up by Bendy threads—little maelstroms of poison that swirl from place to place along the most saccharine and, for some, strangely sensual, threads of ferylemt), knowing that somewhere, someone is doing something horrible, not realizing that it blinds them the far more common quality of beauty in their rezhn.