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..~=%%¤@@# Gray Skies, Swirling With Soot. Stony #@@¤%%=~..
.....~~%¤@ Ground With No Hints Of Vegetation. @¤%~~.....
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...~=%%%¤@ Below The Surface Are The Mines, @¤%%%=~...
..~=%¤@@## Spiraling Down Into The Crust. Small ##@@¤%=~..
.......=%¤ Compared To The Caverns They Eventually ¤%=.......
......=%%¤ Reach And Join With. The Temperature Is ¤%%=......
....==%%¤@ Higher Down Here, And The View Is Not @¤%%==....
..~=%%¤@## As Monochrome: A Green Light Beckons ##@¤%%=~..
..~=%%%¤¤@ From Below. @¤¤%%%=~..
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..~=%%¤@## Long Ago, There Was A Lifeform Here. In ##@¤%%=~..
......~%¤@ The Center Of The Planetoid, Something @¤%~......
..~=%%¤@@# Dormant, Waiting For A Collision With #@@¤%%=~..
.....~%%¤@ Another Body. But No Planet Was @¤%%~.....
......=%¤¤ Reached, And Over Time, The Seedling ¤¤%=......
..~=%%¤@@# Became A Sludge. #@@¤%%=~..
..~=%%@@## ##@@%%=~..
..~=%%¤@@# And Elves Came As Miners, And The #@@¤%%=~..
....~~%%%¤ Sludge Was Bottled. ¤%%%~~....
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.....=%%¤@ @ @ @ The Cargo Ship Is Filled, @ @ @ @¤%%=.....
..~=%%¤@@# % @ @ Prepared For Launch, @ @ % #@@¤%%=~..
..~=%%¤@@# % @ @ Ignition Sequence Started @ @ % #@@¤%%=~..
..~=%%¤¤¤¤ = ¤ @ Hours Ago. Elves In The @ ¤ = ¤¤¤¤%%=~..
..~=%%@@## = % ¤ Passenger Cabin, Not Yet ¤ % = ##@@%%=~..
......~%¤@ ~ = ¤ Seated. But Something Is ¤ = ~ @¤%~......
..~=%%¤@## ~ ~ % Wrong. There Is Something % ~ ~ ##@¤%%=~..
..~=%%¤@@# . . % Green Around Their Mouths. % . . #@@¤%%=~..
..~=%%¤@@@ . . = The Sludge Has Been Sampled, = . . @@@¤%%=~..
..~=%%¤@## . . ~ Entertained, And Then ~ . . ##@¤%%=~..
..~=%%¤@@# . . . Finally Binged On. . . . #@@¤%%=~..
......~%¤@ . . . . . . @¤%~......
..~===%%%@ . . . The Engines Are Burning Hot, . . . @%%%===~..
..~=%%¤@@# And The Ship Accelerates #@@¤%%=~..
..~=%%%%%@ Away. The Elves Have @%%%%%=~..
..~=%%¤@@# Strapped Themselves In, And #@@¤%%=~..
..~=%%¤@@# Are Lying Completely Still, #@@¤%%=~..
..~=%%¤@@# Like Corpses. #@@¤%%=~..
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