44| The Mistake

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The festival dinner was phenomenal, there were a dozen long tables for the feast, each fitting a hundred people with food up each table's center. A band played in the background, a jaunty tune spilling across the revelry. The air was filled with laughter and merriment. Full of food and booze, the attendees headed over to the bonfire. The pile of wood was in a massive hole in the ground, the effect was like a giant fire pit. The crowd created a circle around it, keeping back- knowing the heat that would be coming off it as it was lit. There was a ceremony of sorts for the ignition. The fire caught fast, Ronnie assuming they had used some kind of accelerant. The bonfire was symbolic of a new beginning and clans people stepped forward to discard things into it. Mainly paper with messages to

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