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.^~†^@&£## everything  is completely  calm and dead ##£&@^†~^.
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.^~†^@&£## slowly  start   to  piece  together   my ##£&@^†~^.
...^^~†@&£        consciousness and my body.        £&@†~^^...
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.^~†^@&£## then   the  fear  hits  me  and  i  feel ##£&@^†~^.
.^~†^@&£##    acutely sick. something is ~wrong~.   ##£&@^†~^.
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.^~†^@&£££ almost hostile.  i can feel them squirm, £££&@^†~^.
....^^^~^&     their internal logic changing and    &^~^^^....
.^~†^@&£## grinding trenches in my mind. it's  like ##£&@^†~^.
.^~†^@&£## language, sentences i  can't  hide from, ##£&@^†~^.
.^~†^@&£## forcefully  transcribed  in my mind, and ##£&@^†~^.
.^~~††††@£           doing damage there.            £@††††~~^.
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.^~†^&£###    already, droning everything out, a    ###£&^†~^.
.^~†^@£### rapid  melody,  almost  caustic  in it's ###£@^†~^.
......~^@£         particular microtonality.        £@^~......
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.^~†^@&###              almost mocking.             ###&@^†~^.
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.^~†^@&£## escape. to crawl on  the floor searching ##£&@^†~^.
..^~~^@@£# relief,  such is my nature.  turning the #£@@^~~^..
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.^~†^@&£## does  noting...  but time  does  - after ##£&@^†~^.
...^†††^@£     thirty seconds i'm normal again,     £@^†††^...
.^~†^@&£## doubting anything  of this  happened  in ##£&@^†~^.
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.^~†^@&£££ my eyes  are still tense though, scared. £££&@^†~^.
.^~†^@&£## i    don't    know    what   to    make. ##£&@^†~^.
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.^~†^@&£##              but i'm tired.              ##£&@^†~^.
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.^~†^@&£## i guess?  i  shouldn't  be  so  reckless ##£&@^†~^.
.^~†^@&###              when dreaming?              ###&@^†~^.
.^~†^@&£## i  imagine a prick on  the nose,  that's ##£&@^†~^.
....^~^@&& what these  are. like you do  with a cat &&@^~^....
.^~†^@&££# who  comes to  close to your sandwich... #££&@^†~^.
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