Choir of the Damned

They sang for their salvation. Cursed people, born of mothers who had consorted with evil spirits, they were banished to this vermin-infested, desolate, isolated village. They were damned to live their entire lives here in exile. And so they sang to the gods with all their hearts. They raised their voices to the heavens, and they sang for redemption, in the forlorn hope that the next world would be better than this one.

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