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#@#@§††~~¨ SOMETHING LIES GLOWING ¨~~††§@#@#
@@@@§††~~¨ ON THE OCEAN FLOOR... ¨~~††§@@@@
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#@#@§††~~¨ ON THE OCEAN FLOOR, A DANGEROUS AND ¨~~††§@#@#
###@§††~~¨ CAUSTIC AND SWEET SWEET THING, IT ¨~~††§@###
###@§††~~¨ GLOWS, IT LURES YOU CLOSER. A CREATURE! ¨~~††§@###
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@†††~~¨¨¨¨ A LIQUID SHAPED LIKE A LIVING THING, ¨¨¨¨~~†††@
@##@§††~~¨ AND WHEN IT RAISES AN ARM, ITS FINGERS ¨~~††§@##@
@§§§§††~~¨ ARE DRIPPING WITH FIRE. WITH ITS SONG, ¨~~††§§§§@
@@§†~¨¨¨¨¨ IT LURES YOU CLOSER YET. ¨¨¨¨¨~†§@@
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@§†~~~~¨¨¨ IT'S IN A STATE OF BLISS! IT'S A FLAME, ¨¨¨~~~~†§@
@@@@§††~~¨ LIT BY THE SUN! AND THIS PLEASURE IS TO ¨~~††§@@@@
@##@§††~~¨ BE SHARED, SHARED WITH OTHERS. ¨~~††§@##@
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###@§††~~¨ AND THE CREATURES OF THE SEA CREEP ¨~~††§@###
@@@@§††~~¨ CLOSER, HYPNOTIZED AND CURIOUS, AND THE ¨~~††§@@@@
@@#@§††~~¨ SLUDGE EXTENDS A HAND, AND THEY TAKE IT, ¨~~††§@#@@
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@@@†~¨¨¨¨¨ WRITHING WITH JOY, ACCEPTS THEM ALL. ¨¨¨¨¨~†@@@
##@@§††~~¨ THEY STEP INSIDE, TAKING THE SHAPE OF A ¨~~††§@@##
#@#@§††~~¨ SQUIRMING OTTER, NOW A STRETCHING CAT, ¨~~††§@#@#
#@†††~¨¨¨¨ NOW ALMOST HUMANOID. ALTHOUGH SUDDENLY ¨¨¨¨~†††@#
#@#@§††~~¨ IT ALL LIQUIFIES COMPLETELY, NOW JUST A ¨~~††§@#@#
#@#@§††~~¨ BURNING PUDDLE, LIT NOT BY THE SUN, BUT ¨~~††§@#@#
##@#@††~~¨ BY SOME INTERNAL FUEL HOSTILE TO LIFE. ¨~~††@#@##
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