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MAG 164 - The Sick Village

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The Paranoia of the Village

Villagers are beaten and stripped for signs of infection. Most are uncontaminated though that does little to save them. A few are spared brutality and treated with such cordial politeness you must have thought their inquisitors old friends. It is alas those who are unblemished that suffer worse, so incomprehensible is it that any from outside could be clean they devise another theory. An invisible infection, a hundred typhoid marys spreading mildew and decay.

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