A place where children must be with adults.
Children who become orphans, or run away from home, or choose to disobey, must be punished.
They see considered impure, as must be terminated.
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This is the way it has been for my people, for as long as anyone could remember. Each new life brought with it the threat that the creature posed. Each new life could be snatched away from us too early, too harshly, and far too cruelly.