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#@@#&*==~. .~==*&#@@#
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@@@#&*==~. Gray Skies, Swirling With Soot. Stony .~==*&#@@@
@#&=====~. Ground With No Hints Of Vegetation. .~=====&#@
#@@#&*==~. .~==*&#@@#
#@@#&*==~. Below The Surface Are The Mines, .~==*&#@@#
##@#&*==~. Spiraling Down Into The Crust. Small .~==*&#@##
@&&**=~... Compared To The Caverns They Eventually ...~=**&&@
##@#&*==~. Reach And Join With. The Temperature Is .~==*&#@##
@@@#&*==~. Higher Down Here, And The View Is Not .~==*&#@@@
#@@#&*==~. As Monochrome: A Green Light Beckons .~==*&#@@#
###*===~.. From Below. ..~===*###
@@@#&*==~. .~==*&#@@@
#@@#&*==~. Long Ago, There Was A Lifeform Here. In .~==*&#@@#
##@#&*==~. The Center Of The Planetoid, Something .~==*&#@##
#@@#&*==~. Dormant, Waiting For A Collision With .~==*&#@@#
#&*==..... Another Body. But No Planet Was .....==*&#
#@@#&*==~. Reached, And Over Time, The Seedling .~==*&#@@#
@@@#&*==~. Became A Sludge. .~==*&#@@@
##*==..... .....==*##
#@@#&*==~. And Elves Came As Miners, And The .~==*&#@@#
#@@#&*==~. Sludge Was Bottled. .~==*&#@@#
#@@#&*==~. .~==*&#@@#
#&*=~..... ######################################## .....~=*&#
#@@#&*==~. # # .~==*&#@@#
@@@#&*==~. # #@#@@@#@####################@#@@@#@# # .~==*&#@@@
@#*=~..... # @ @ # .....~=*#@
##@#&*==~. @ @ @@@#*#********************#*#@@@ @ @ .~==*&#@##
@@##&*==~. @ @ @ @ @ @ .~==*&##@@
##*=~..... @ @ @ The Cargo Ship Is Filled, @ @ @ .....~=*##
#@@#&*==~. & @ @ Prepared For Launch, @ @ & .~==*&#@@#
#@@#&*==~. * @ @ Ignition Sequence Started @ @ * .~==*&#@@#
@@@#&*==~. = # @ Hours Ago. Elves In The @ # = .~==*&#@@@
@@@#&*==~. = * # Passenger Cabin, Not Yet # * = .~==*&#@@@
##@#&*==~. = = # Seated. But Something Is # = = .~==*&#@##
#&==...... = = & Wrong. There Is Something & = = ......==&#
#@@#&*==~. ~ ~ * Green Around Their Mouths. * ~ ~ .~==*&#@@#
@@@#&*==~. ~ ~ = The Sludge Has Been Sampled, = ~ ~ .~==*&#@@@
##*==~.... ~ ~ = Entertained, And Then = ~ ~ ....~==*##
##@@&*==~. ~ ~ ~ Finally Binged On. ~ ~ ~ .~==*&@@##
###&&*==~. . . . . . . .~==*&&###
@#&&==~... . . . The Engines Are Burning Hot, . . . ...~==&&#@
##@@#&*=~. And The Ship Accelerates .~=*&#@@##
@&&&**==~. Away. The Elves Have .~==**&&&@
#@@#&*==~. Strapped Themselves In, And .~==*&#@@#
@&*=~~~... Are Lying Completely Still, ...~~~=*&@
##*=~..... Like Corpses. .....~=*##
@&&==~~~.. ..~~~==&&@
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