UNEXPECTED KINDNESSES

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"Remember the days of yore,

Strange men, anointed as from the heavens

Raced down and made quick

Raising dwellings among our people.

There were whispers

And there were murmurs;

What peculiar beings now habitate our domain,

The people wanted to know.

For though the eat and breathe and shit like us,

Their magnificence supersedes humanity.

We beheld in wonder as they reigned supreme,

Going beyond our expectations of superhumanity.

And now they have been gone these many years still we hold our breaths,

Waiting to behold them.

But we well know, they are long gone from these shores,

And yet still, we long, we hope, and we wait."

[Excerpt from a favorite song among the mountain people of Bhagart]

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