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The Cannibals of Caliba - #1
Far below the plains and valley of the Old Earth, by the moving fogs and dense brown grove full of red mangroves though it appeared above the Ngwal Ocean water level is Caliba, a slightly small land surrounded by huge rocks held on by tiny yet fragile-looking ones. It is what some people call today the Stone Age.
The people of Caliba are gifted with the traits of fertility hatched on their DNA coupled with that they rarely feel the murderous pain childbearing entail. The source of this gift is yet to be revealed even to this day. As time passed by to the time of the great plague, many people died of the plague. All over their environs, there were houses and farms with no one to till the ground and live in them yet the Calibians flourished in population despite the death occurrence. Soon the news of their increase went across turns and villages like wide fire, it struck envy and unexplainable hate. T
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