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..~-/%&### they tell me: "we are going to shrink ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### you." i don't quite like the tone in ####&%/-~.
..~-/%&### their voices, like they are restraining ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### themselves. there is a hunger in them ####&%/-~.
..~-/%&### and it wants me to shrink. and what ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### really irks me is that so do i. ####&%/-~.
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.~-/%&#### they give me wristbands and anklets, ####&%/-~.
..~-/%&### made of some strange stone. their ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### surface is swirling, like dark ####&%/-~.
..~-/%&### thunderstorms trapped in glass, like ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### windows into a smaller world, close to ####&%/-~.
..~-/%&### my body so that it can see clearly ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### whats in store. ####&%/-~.
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.~-/%&#### they give me food: prawn-like bugs that ####&%/-~.
..~-/%&### make my tongue curl with satisfaction. ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### "out of this world", i think, having no ####&%/-~.
..~-/%&### frame of reference. i eat only two, but ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### the bugs leave me suspiciously ####&%/-~.
..~-/%&### satisfied. ###&%/-~..
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..~-/%&### they measure my clothes. "you are going ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### to become about half as big", they tell ####&%/-~.
..~-/%&### me, barely controlling themselves with ###&%/-~..
.~-/%&#### anticipation. ####&%/-~.
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