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Half-crazed after they saw a vision of Christ, a small group
of people moved to the city from a rural town. The vision
filled them and dispelled the rancid feelings that they were
bumpkins; that they were looked down on by city folk. Across
the valley, driving, one of them had suggested that perhaps
they were the last apostles. And that the final apostles were
empowered to tell the people the end of the earth, the end of
all we know. They were shown that the city was an empty
construct of an old and dying soul. They were shown the collapse
of all the systems in place that created the infrastructure.
They were shown how the people would go mad, would become
hysterical when they realized that they carried the truth.
They prepared themselves for the skepticism that would greet
them. It was a shock, then, when they first arrived and drove
down the long and crowded main avenue. For there, hanging
out the windows and lining the streets by the thousands, were
demons of every description; howling, waving, smirking, laughing
as the group drove its car slowly through.
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