This is a masterful piece of speculative fiction, @warpedpoetic. Your writing draws us in, and without painting a specific picture of the people and how they have come to this place of reckoning (or lack thereof), you still give us everything we need to know, along with a remarkable story arc that comes with resounding closure.

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