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The Bone Houses
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In "The Bone Houses," a young mapmaker teams up with a gravedigger to protect a village from restless undead creatures rising from ancient burial mounds.

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Sometimes the stories we're meant to tell aren't the ones we want to share.

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The past is a map, and you are a traveler. Sometimes you have to go back to go forward.

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The world hurt people, and they hurt back.

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Sometimes the only way to survive is to keep going.

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Wars were not won by men with good hearts.

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Monsters were easy to recognize. They were the ones who sought to destroy.

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Some things were too broken to be fixed. Some things just stayed broken.

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The world was always going to break your heart. It was just a question of when.

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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living.

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The past is written in stone, but the future is a shifting sea.

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