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......-/£¤ cold boiling asphalt and ¤£/-......
.--/^£¤@@# crimson emergency flares... #@@¤£^/--.
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.--/^£¤@@# they were tearing down statues, and #@@¤£^/--.
.--/^£¤@## bellowing their manifest, in the rain, ##@¤£^/--.
.-/^£¤@@## in the dark, ##@@¤£^/-.
.--/^£¤@@@ @@@¤£^/--.
.--/^^£¤¤@ and something followed me out, a @¤¤£^^/--.
..--//££¤@ yearning. a memory of being touched by @¤££//--..
...-////£@ a ray from a raspberry sun. still @£////-...
...-/^^^£¤ there, everything would be gritty and ¤£^^^/-...
.--/^£¤@## full of tar. rain upon it. but then a ##@¤£^/--.
.--/^£¤@## few bright and colorful anomalies. and ##@¤£^/--.
....--^^¤@ a promise for more. @¤^^--....
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.--/^£¤@@@ like waking up with a business card in @@@¤£^/--.
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.--/^£¤@@@ a feather boa wrapped around a velvet @@@¤£^/--.
.......-^¤ lizard, surfacing for milliseconds at a ¤^-.......
.--/^£¤@@# time, calling, tugging at my arms. #@@¤£^/--.
....-//^¤@ begging me to sink back down and be @¤^//-....
.--/^£¤¤@@ with them, with their kind. easy to get @@¤¤£^/--.
....--^^¤@ washed away from the tether, from the @¤^^--....
....-//^¤@ way back up. @¤^//-....
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.--/^£¤@@# but i cannot go. the consequences would #@@¤£^/--.
......-^¤@ be too large. especially since i'm in @¤^-......
.--/^£¤@@# the work mill and they've got their #@@¤£^/--.
.......-^¤ eyes on me already. the feeling will ¤^-.......
...--^£¤¤@ wane, and i will miss it, and cease to @¤¤£^--...
.--/^£¤@@# understand. like every day. #@@¤£^/--.
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