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,,,~=^*§§# Gray Skies, Swirling With Soot. Stony #§§*^=~,,,
,,~=^*§§## Ground With No Hints Of Vegetation. ##§§*^=~,,
,~=^*§§### ###§§*^=~,
,,~=^*§§## 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. ~ ~ ~ ##§§*^=~,,
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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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