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,.=††§£@@# although they will log video, no call #@@£§††=.,
,.=††§£@@# will be made for any outside #@@£§††=.,
,.=††§§§£@ assistance. this is very good. @£§§§††=.,
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,,.==††§@@ the railmakers are siemens-manufactured @@§††==.,,
,.=††§£@@# brick-like things. fields of gray and #@@£§††=.,
,.=††§£@@# teal, floodlights, thrumming and #@@£§††=.,
,,,.==†§££ hissing. trilling to each other, like ££§†==.,,,
,.=††§§£££ language. and here, three of them, £££§§††=.,
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,.=††§£@@# dense forest. #@@£§††=.,
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,,,,,=†§£@ i'm coming up on them from behind and @£§†=,,,,,
,,,,.=††§@ to the left, hidden behind the thick @§††=.,,,,
,,..=††§§@ foliage. their light finds the gaps @§§††=..,,
,.===†††§£ between the leaves, casting rays £§†††===.,
,,.=††§££@ through the wet air, playing over my @££§††=.,,
,...=††£@@ face and arms, and my weapon. i quickly @@£††=...,
,,....††§@ overtake them, crouch in the ditch made @§††....,,
,.=††††§£@ by the preprocessor, and watch. one of @£§††††=.,
,,..=†††££ them is already a bit behind the ££†††=..,,
,.=††§£@## others. it will be my target. ##@£§††=.,
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,,,,,=††£@ just as the light of the leading two is @£††=,,,,,
,,,,.††§§@ dimming, i deploy the rabbits, throwing @§§††.,,,,
,.=††§£@## them in the path of my prey. the ##@£§††=.,
,.=††£@@## creatures are yet alive, but maimed so ##@@£††=.,
,.=††§£@## as to be unable to move - they will ##@£§††=.,
,.=††§£@@# stay in the path of the railmaker, #@@£§††=.,
,,,,,=††§@ forcing it to pause, further separating @§††=,,,,,
,.=††§£@## it from its two friends. ##@£§††=.,
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,.=††§£@## £ there's flesh inside them. £££££££££££ ##@£§††=.,
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,,,,.††££@ but something like a liver, that will @££††.,,,,
,.=††§£@@# keep the railmakers internal chemistry #@@£§††=.,
,.=††§£@@# well away from their various exhausts. #@@£§††=.,
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,.=††§£@@# a liver that, as long as you manage to #@@£§††=.,
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