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,,,,,«††*# the feral dream          ««««@ ««««@ ««@ #*††«,,,,,
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,,,,,,,«†† †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† ††«,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,«† † event: ingestion of three hundred    † †«,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,« † and sixty micrograms of selatenine   † «,,,,,,,,,
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,,,,,,«††*     a gentle transformation occurs.      *††«,,,,,,
,,,,,«††*#                                          #*††«,,,,,
,,,,«††*##   first, just an isolated prick in the   ##*††«,,,,
,,,«††*###  fingers, which could be nothing. except ###*††«,,,
,,«††*####   there is a tension that wasn't there   ####*††«,,
,,,«††*###                  before.                 ###*††«,,,
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,,,,,«††*#    joy as a television static spreads    #*††«,,,,,
,,,,,,«††*  slowly up the arms. (old limbs falling  *††«,,,,,,
,,,,,,,«††        asleep for the last time.)        ††«,,,,,,,
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,,,,,,,,,«   next is a private moment, and we must  «,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,«†   look away for a bit. but whatever's    †«,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,«††   happening doesn't sound unpleasant.    ††«,,,,,,,
,,,,,,«††*   short breath, moans, bones breaking,   *††«,,,,,,
,,,,,«††*#  maybe; but these are raptorous things,  #*††«,,,,,
,,,,«††*##          they are exultations.           ##*††«,,,,
,,,«††*###                                          ###*††«,,,
,,«††*####  for a split second, the room is devoid  ####*††«,,
,,,«††*###    of life. but then, the evening sun    ###*††«,,,
,,,,«††*##  finds something new on the floor. in a  ##*††«,,,,
,,,,,«††*#  pool of primordial water, a shivering   #*††«,,,,,
,,,,,,«††*       fourlegger opens their eyes.       *††«,,,,,,
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,,,,,,,,«†    there is a second blooming, and a     †«,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,«    third, and a fourth. struggling to    «,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,«†  rise, finding the unexpected strength   †«,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,«†† of the new body, falling headfirst into  ††«,,,,,,,
,,,,,,«††*                new urges.                *††«,,,,,,
,,,,,«††*#                                          #*††«,,,,,
,,,,«††*##  escaping through the glassless window.  ##*††«,,,,
,,,«††*###      outside, the world is waiting.      ###*††«,,,
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