“It’s a rillom, but I’m not going to get the flow or the rhyming parts right. As well as I can remember, the tale goes like this. There were once two lands where great battles were fought. After they had ended, both lands had corpses scattered all over. When the clouds approached, the first land said, ‘Leave me. If you pour water onto me, you will spread the poison of these corpses all over and disturb the little peace I have left,’ and it drove the clouds off. The other land took a deep breath and let the waters wash over it, gradually draining the filth away. After twenty years, the first
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