Rats in Shadows

In the once-thriving village of people, trust was their greatest strength-and their fatal flaw. Deception crept in like a plague, turning leaders into traitors and neighbors into spies. As power-hungry rulers abandoned their people for wealth, outsiders seized the land, stripping away not just homes but a history built land. Divided by politics and desperation, these people faced an impossible choice: resist and risk betrayal from within, or surrender and fade into obscurity. But when a few brave souls dared to fight back, they discovered that the enemy was not just at their borders-it was among them. Can a betrayed land ever reclaim its honor, or is it doomed to be swallowed by the shadows of its past?