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    "Corruption by the Other cannot be allowed to prevail," the Speaker was saying, his voice soaring on the gentle desert winds. "My family, let this be a lesson. If you feel the Other taking hold of you, filling your heart with tar, reach out, ask this family for help."

    The heavy clouds above Jay had started to dissipate and he stared at the moonlight that streamed down. This night would have been the perfect night to escape, dark enough that (with the dark clothes he'd planned to wear) he wouldn't have been seen, but moonlit enough that he would have been able to see where he was going.

    What a perfect night to die on.

    He wished that time could stop, just for a moment, to allow him to take it all in without fear colouring everything he saw. Jay didn't listen to the rest of the Speaker's speech, he'd heard it all before when his mother and siblings had been handed over to the Gods this same way; ramblings about lessons learned and how this hurt those left behind more than those accused, meaningless chatter about how the Speaker saw in their hearts that they were good, true people.

    Those words were ones that included Jay just weeks ago, before the Speaker had known of his transgressions.

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