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##&$††~^,, &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ,,^~††$&##
#&$††~^,,, & autonomous railmakers will notice    & ,,,^~††$&#
&$††~^,,,, & wildlife in their path and stop,     & ,,,,^~††$&
$††~^,,,,, &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ,,,,,^~††$
††~^,,,,,, sound  a  horn,  nudge   the   animal  a ,,,,,,^~††
†~^,,,,,,, little,  but  ultimately  wait  it  out. ,,,,,,,^~†
††~^,,,,,, although  they will  log  video, no call ,,,,,,^~††
$††~^,,,,, will   be    made   for    any   outside ,,,,,^~††$
&$††~^,,,,      assistance. this is very good.      ,,,,^~††$&
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##&$††~^,, the railmakers are siemens-manufactured  ,,^~††$&##
###&$††~^, brick-like  things.  fields of  gray and ,^~††$&###
##&$††~^,,     teal, floodlights, thrumming and     ,,^~††$&##
#&$††~^,,, hissing.  trilling  to  each other, like ,,,^~††$&#
&$††~^,,,, language.  and  here,   three  of  them, ,,,,^~††$&
$††~^,,,,, slowly  making  their  way  through  the ,,,,,^~††$
††~^,,,,,,              dense forest.               ,,,,,,^~††
†~^,,,,,,,                                          ,,,,,,,^~†
††~^,,,,,, i'm coming up on  them  from  behind and ,,,,,,^~††
$††~^,,,,, to the  left,  hidden behind  the  thick ,,,,,^~††$
&$††~^,,,, foliage.  their  light  finds  the  gaps ,,,,^~††$&
#&$††~^,,,     between the leaves, casting rays     ,,,^~††$&#
##&$††~^,, through  the  wet air,  playing over  my ,,^~††$&##
###&$††~^, face and arms, and  my weapon. i quickly ,^~††$&###
##&$††~^,, overtake them, crouch in the ditch  made ,,^~††$&##
#&$††~^,,, by  the  preprocessor, and watch. one of ,,,^~††$&#
&$††~^,,,, them   is  already  a  bit  behind   the ,,,,^~††$&
$††~^,,,,, others.    it   will   be   my   target. ,,,,,^~††$
††~^,,,,,,                                          ,,,,,,^~††
†~^,,,,,,, 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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$††~^,,,,, &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ,,,,,^~††$
††~^,,,,,, & another thing about the machines:    & ,,,,,,^~††
†~^,,,,,,, & there's flesh inside them. &&&&&&&&&&& ,,,,,,,^~†
††~^,,,,,, &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& not meat, ,,,,,,^~††
$††~^,,,,, but  something like a  liver, that  will ,,,,,^~††$
&$††~^,,,,  keep the railmakers internal chemistry  ,,,,^~††$&
#&$††~^,,, well  away  from their various exhausts. ,,,^~††$&#
##&$††~^,,                                          ,,^~††$&##
###&$††~^, a liver that, as  long as you  manage to ,^~††$&###
##&$††~^,, keep  it  alive,  can  clean  the  creek ,,^~††$&##
#&$††~^,,, water  enough  for it to  be  drinkable. ,,,^~††$&#
&$††~^,,,,                                          ,,,,^~††$&
$††~^,,,,,          which is why i'm here.          ,,,,,^~††$
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