What is recorded here

Glenkeen holds a children's burial ground, though no visible marker remains to show where the small bodies went beneath the soil. The land may have swallowed whole families during fever or famine, leaving only a faint dip in the grass where adults knelt to bury what they lost. That absence is not emptiness; it is the shape of grief pressed into the earth, waiting for someone to walk past and remember that children belong in history as much as in legend.

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