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Female | Teen | 5 to 10 minutes
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EXTRACT: The City grew—as over years the waters rose, and surrounding lands turned to swamp, and then shallow, then sea. The City sat high on proud cliffs and as its population swelled, so it did too, spilling down the sides, roads burrowing into rock, buildings filling the sky. The City could house all, it boasted—and those who prospered sang its praises, and those who struggled only whispered, so in this way The City wrote its own reviews. Then the Time of Anger came. They say it began when two people saw a last fruit on a shop shelf …