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Vapid

The modernity of chicken dinners

Eleanor Konik
Nov 10, 2021
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For fear of her magic, the monks worked hard to keep Koria ignorant of the secular world. She never learned about feeding chickens or broken bridges, never heard a merchant’s hawking cry after a stolen pie.

In the end, they raised a vapid child to rule them.

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