The Upright Stranger: A Tale of Cursed Islanders and a Portal to Freedom On a stormy night, a shipwreck occurred near a mysterious island. A young boy, the sole survivor, managed to reach the shore using an improvised float. The island’s natives, surprised by his arrival, took him in and raised him as one of … Sigue leyendo The book explained that an ancient curse had condemned the islanders to walk hunched over, due to an ancestral crime that had never been atoned for. The curse was clear: “Crawl like serpents, you will always walk, murderers!”