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¨¨§¨§¨§¨§¨ 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. ¨§¨§¨§¨§¨§
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¨§§¨§¨§¨§¨ And Elves Came As Miners, And The ¨§¨§¨§¨§¨§
¨¨§¨§¨§¨§¨ Sludge Was Bottled. §§¨§¨§¨§¨§
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¨¨§¨§¨§¨§¨ = = % Wrong. There Is Something % = = §§¨§¨§¨§¨§
¨§§¨§¨§¨§¨ : : * Green Around Their Mouths. * : : ¨§¨§¨§¨§¨§
¨¨§¨§¨§¨§¨ : : ; The Sludge Has Been Sampled, ; : : §§¨§¨§¨§¨§
¨§§¨§¨§¨§¨ : : = Entertained, And Then = : : ¨§¨§¨§¨§¨§
¨¨§¨§¨§¨§¨ : : : Finally Binged On. : : : §§¨§¨§¨§¨§
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¨¨§¨§¨§¨§¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ 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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