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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. #@#¤*;~.,,
,.~;*¤#@## ##@#¤*;~.,
,,.~;*¤#@# And Elves Came As Miners, And The #@#¤*;~.,,
,.~;*¤#@## Sludge Was Bottled. ##@#¤*;~.,
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,.~;*¤#@## ######################################## ##@#¤*;~.,
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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 ¤ ~ ~ ##@#¤*;~.,
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,.~;*¤#@## . . ; 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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