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details, see the episode description. Cucode presents Birds of Empire Season 2, created by Jason

Lou.

The Rams have a tale of a blind prince who dreamt each day of seeing sunlight until he became light himself.

The story is lost to time now, or perhaps it became something else.

Perhaps it shifted like the sands beneath a fault line, or was ground to dust like the generations buried beneath the soil.

Barlin, our prince, steps one foot in front of another along a winding path upward.

How do you know this stranger isn't leading us off a cliff, dropping us to our tomb,

splattering us upon the rocks like ripe melons in the summer months?

I don't. Well, well, shit!

We approach.

Are you sure we shouldn't turn back?

We should press on.

And what tells you that, boy?

Instinct.

Something I'm newly learning to listen to.

My whole life I was told everything that came from my body was damaged, wrong, but my mother's

vision lit a fire inside that I think was always there, just snuffed under the yoke of my father

and brother through cruelty.

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