In this world sin cultivates as a smell on people. As they experience more emotions beyond greed or lust for example and do more in life they begin to have a scent formed specifically from their experiences causing people to often smell like, for the lack of a better word, themselves. The main character in this story was told that “Only the guilty wash their hands” in an attempt to wash away their sin but through this older woman he learns that sin is a part of life and that to sin is to grow-

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