42 Side story: Corruption.

Guard A:

The weakest people lingered,

The ones who cannot fight on their own.

Under a grand facade,

We made our new home.

The weakest lingered,

The scheming stayed back.

The ones who abandon,

They never attacked.

I who stayed home,

to protect the gate.

Till my very death,

To the other guards I hate.

Author:

The others never punished,

They lived full lives.

In this land,

Corruption paints bountiful skys

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