Challenge 1: The Hook

When all is reduced to rubble, what is left to preserve?

In the new world order, warlords kill and pillage the countryside in search of the most precious commodity left on earth: music. Though nearly all instruments have been confiscated and hoarded away, something vital still eludes the vicious pandillas: a musician.

It is said that the art of music was lost during la Punta; but can it be found once more?

Written for the Herculean Challenge!

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