More and more words were forbidden. The simplest conversation became a minefield.
Punishment was terrible: blanking. She’d been through it before. The isolation was unbearable.
They took away her words again, and she killed herself.
A revolution ensued, upturned the Linguists, and gave the people of Otea their words back.
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