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This is a curse, isn't it?
Of course. It has to be. Murder doesn't happen this often, not even in relatively violent places like this. Since it's a curse it will be over with by midnight, everyone will be alive, and we won't have to worry about being stabbed in the back if we leave our apartments. There aren't that many murderers in the City. There can't be. If it's a curse, then something about the City itself is compelling citizens to kill--a kind of mass possession.
It has to be. Normal people don't kill each other like this.
Of course. It has to be. Murder doesn't happen this often, not even in relatively violent places like this. Since it's a curse it will be over with by midnight, everyone will be alive, and we won't have to worry about being stabbed in the back if we leave our apartments. There aren't that many murderers in the City. There can't be. If it's a curse, then something about the City itself is compelling citizens to kill--a kind of mass possession.
It has to be. Normal people don't kill each other like this.