This is Sam Kin Canan, and you're listening to Hard Truth with Sam Cuncanon.

All around the country, fanatical groups meet in secret to practice forbidden rituals and plot their rise to power.

Their aim, a world without gods, and a world without sacrifice.

It's been called the tree of spite and the CLS, the rancorous oak, the many below, and here in the peninsula, this dangerous terrorist cult has a new name, the wound tree.

It's struck in our prisons, in our factories, in our farms.

The children of the wound tree claim to oppose industrial scale sacrifice.

But does it influence, in fact, render regular acts of worship inaccessible to marginalized citizens?

Worse yet?

Could it hand to the Linger Streets the chance of victory they've been looking for?

And in an era of cynicism towards divine sacrifice,

how can we recapture the sense of community pride and selfless service that once defined the people of the peninsula?

Earlier this morning, as the first sweep of drafting raids began in the southwestern territory,

the Judicator Corps was forced to call for calm on fears that our indentured soldiers can deliberately brand themselves in the Blue Tree's prayer mark

in order to sow chaos in the

peninsula's camps and on the front lines. Tonight, we'll be doing a deep dive on the topic

and giving you all the facts you need to think of your mind. I'll be speaking to adjudicator

shrews of the Northwest and sputted heads of policymakers more than once on this particular issue.

I understand. I do understand the concerns, Sam, but the legislatures should not be making

potentially hazardous decisions about our enlisted military personnel based on exaggeration

and hearsay. I'll also be speaking with Radio Star and director Leonard Trump about an upcoming

blockbuster serial, Carly Cape, The Rise of Pulkerertude, which will be airing right here on GGR This Fathoms.

We'll be discussing, in a polarized age of extremism and division, what is the function of art?

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