Denied Rest Pilgrims x5

Denied Rest are the pilgrims who were allowed to fall, and then commanded to stand again. They once walked among The Still-Marching Pilgrims, their leper-ravaged bodies already close to surrender. Death reached them plainly—through iron, fire, collapse, or the quiet failure of ruined flesh—and for a moment the road continued without them. That moment was judged insufficient. Their return is neither miracle nor mercy. It is accepted in silence and marked with restraint. Mortal wounds remain visi…

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