Cold-reader beat: the alliance holds up a mirror of contradiction.
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The unspoken alliance between the Forward Thinkers and the Contemplatives had an unintended, and deeply ironic, consequence. In their attempts to outcompete the third garden, they had begun to internalize its core principles. The Forward Thinkers, in their quest for ever more efficient forms of chaotic creation, had…
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