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.-~/%£¶@##           the road is blocked.           ##@¶£%/~-.
..-~/%£¶@# two  creatures,  alive,  and  a  burning #@¶£%/~-..
...-~/%£¶@     car. the windshield is shattered,    @¶£%/~-...
....-~/%£¶               from outside.              ¶£%/~-....
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..-~/%£¶@#  the womans name is ~lynne~, she heads   #@¶£%/~-..
...-~/%£¶@   from the peninsula of kola - called    @¶£%/~-...
....-~/%£¶    there long ago by the depth of the    ¶£%/~-....
.....-~/%£    boring hole, now again returning to   £%/~-.....
....-~/%£¶    denser civilization. but she is not   ¶£%/~-....
...-~/%£¶@   human. she has long claws with which   @¶£%/~-...
..-~/%£¶@# she picks out the flesh of her prey and  #@¶£%/~-..
.-~/%£¶@##     tears at it with her teeth, blood    ##@¶£%/~-.
..-~/%£¶@#   dripping onto the dirt road. she does  #@¶£%/~-..
...-~/%£¶@       not look up from her killing.      @¶£%/~-...
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.....-~/%£    her steed is ~hornblende~, a dark     £%/~-.....
....-~/%£¶    horse, a glowing panther. she's an    ¶£%/~-....
...-~/%£¶@    extremely digitgrade thing, with a    @¶£%/~-...
..-~/%£¶@#  polite face. while her regular (and now #@¶£%/~-..
.-~/%£¶@## disinterested) mouth is responsible for  ##@¶£%/~-.
..-~/%£¶@#     eating plant matter (mostly fatty    #@¶£%/~-..
...-~/%£¶@     fruits like avocado) her tail is     @¶£%/~-...
....-~/%£¶  carnivorous and has a mouth (and will?) ¶£%/~-....
.....-~/%£   of its own. the entire tail is hollow  £%/~-.....
....-~/%£¶  and juicy, and feels wonderful inside.  ¶£%/~-....
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