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    “If we’re talking about this right now, how do we know we haven’t done this before?”

    Maybe we have done all of this before. Maybe we’re supposed to do this forever.

     

    Over and over, again and again. Bloodshed, kindness. Anger, empathy.

    Countless lives and countless worlds have faded as Hero and Princess repeat the cycle, desperately propping up a “world” where neither the Shifting Mound nor the Narrator win. But the construct was designed with a swift conclusion in mind.

    The rules are slipping, wearing down from dozens of choices made within and against them.

    What will break first: the construct, or the Long Quiet?

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