Gunfighting Wizards
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Last published Mon, Jul 1, 2024
Our society is not an iceberg. While it holds an impossible number of secrets, there is no waterline to shove them under. Even the ocean floor isn't bottomless enough to hide every hushed detail. Eventually they would pile up and surface for all to see.
And so we have learned to camouflage our information. We are among cloaked observers, actors , and informants. As species within the jungles of the Amazon have developed a varied set of methods to avoid detection, we have done the same.
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