Sacrifice (recycled lines)

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   Night festers in the clouds. It stains the earth in eye-like patches of red and white, dragging warmth from the desert of faces below. They twitch. They are young.

The prophet speaks. Children are our gods, blamed as much as they are loved. One falls. He is holy.

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