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Through Snowy Healm's Valley
"IN THE WOODS WHERE SNOW IS THICK, BARS OF SUNLIGHT LAY LIKE PALE FIRE."
- Katherine Mansfield
Tucked away at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, sits The Compound. A 4 by 4 mile long enclosed area housing roughly five hundred residents. Surrounded by plains and forests, it's hundred foot concrete walls stand out like giants for miles.
And the walls are there for a reason.
The Compound holds children. Crowds of them. Five buildings, containing nothing but bunk beds and litters of kids. They're confused, owning nothing but the plain cotton clothes on their backs and the few treasured flashes of The Past.
The Compound is ruled by a group named none other as the Black Cloaks. Cold, mysterious creatures they are. They stride around The Compound, cloaked by pitch-black robes, choosing a child once every month. They're taken away by The Gold Stripes, never to be seen again.
The Gold Stripes have another purpose. To chase and hunt during the period known as The Culling. Children can run and escape those walls. And when they do, The Gold Stripe hunt them down, with gunpowder and steel.
Many are taken back to be 'made an example of'. Others never return, seemingly to have made it to Haven. A rumoured base found by following an icy stream uphill into the valley, outside of The Compound.
You are one of those children.
And this is your story.
Welcome to The Compound.
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