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A Ring Story 2: Children Of Ring DAY 1Oct 27 '03 Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line The sequel to the ring roleplay fanfiction.
The ancient spirit En No has now returned.
This story was written by thezebu, i am samara, sadgit, and schleppy pigeon. =^_^=
In the spirit dimension, in the cave of the hateful water demon, En No, a Sorcerer remained peering over the frozen waters in a position he had not moved out of for the last 1800 days. He had been summoned to keep En No frozen six years ago by the mortals. While En No was frozen, he was powerless and the world of the living was safe from his supernatural agents of evil and devices of death. But now the water was suddenly spontaneously melting, as though all of En No's boiling wrath was literally burning it all. The sorcerer was unprepared for this to happen so spontaneously, then En No's spirit daughter, Sadako materialised behind him, her hair covering her face. Her bones snapped sickeningly as she walked slowly to him. He turned around and she pushed him falling into the waters of En No. He tried to scream, but he could not surface as the mass of living hands that were part of the water held him below surface. He could not drown in the water because he was not mortal, but the evil within the waters completely dwarfed him and overtook his mind. The sickly water went through his mouth and poisoned his pure heart. En No wanted to spread the video curse again onto the mortal world, and take his revenge on those mortals who had summoned the sorcerer and had him frozen And the Sorcerer no longer wanted to stop him. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mai awoke and stretched, groaning orgasmically, and with sensual delicacy she turned to her husband, Schleppy, hoping to keep on a high after the wonderful sex last night. It was a bright and beautiful morning through their window, giving a glorious view of their lush garden, and Schleppy was still asleep. A force of habit perhaps for living in Japan with different time zones. Sometimes it made him a lazy father to their five-year old daughter, who they had named Shizuko, rather like the rest of their group who had been so inspired by their fight against En No six years ago, in-fact Lani and Chris had called from America a few months back to announce the birth of their first child, a girl and how they had named her Samara. Her heart felt like it was floating in calm waters, being constantly washed and cleansed. Then suddenly the light in the room seemed to die and it seemed dark suddenly, and a horribly sinister and icy wind cut through the room, blowing Mai's hair. Mai blinked her eyes and in that split second, suddenly Sadako was above her. She gasped in horror! Mai: "No! No! You can't be back!" Sadako hissed: "You have failed miserably." Mai became defiant: "We broke your curse! We'll break it again!" Sadako: "Foolish mortal, your survival means nothing to me. My curse will find you again, one way or another! My curse will be spread again, and this time humanity will be extinguished forever." Then Sadako was gone. Mai started shaking, clutching her mouth. Panic threatened to overcome her thoughts. If the curse was restored again, then Schleppy would die in a few hours, as would his friends, and Kaoru would die in six days. How could she stop that from happening? how could she save Schleppy in such little time? She breathed heavily in panic and then shed her bed covers and went to the far cabinet, picking up the camera. She cautiously and slowly approached Schleppy without waking him. the camera shaking in her hands. She bit her lip and closed her eyes, before raising the camera to her eye and caught a frame of Schleppy turned to his side. She gulped as she pressed the button. ten seconds later, Mai was staring at the developing picture. It finally formed to show Schleppy, a completely normal image. She gasped and laughed with shocked relief. She then walked out of the bedroom, then she came to the living room and then gasped with shock again, as over back of the grey couch, the T.V. screen was on, and it was showing the image a horse's eye with the letter Sada in its centre, and then an image of Sadako's well in the forest where the cabin had been built. Then static. Mai then plucked up the courage to walk to the T.V. and she switched it off, ejecting the tape from the player. To her surprise the video was "Monsters Inc", her daughter's favourite film, but now it was showing the curse? Then Mai turned round and what she saw made her feel like her heart had been stabbed sharply, she felt absolutely horrified..... it was little Shizuko lying on the couch, her eyes wide open, looking back at her, she had watched it! they both had! Mai opened her mouth and didn't stop screaming! -------------------- Lani was was typing on her laptop. "Chapter 5. Only 15 more chapters to go until I'm done with novel number 4! Isn't that great Sammy?" Samara looked at her mom and cooed. "And your Daddy's going to be home soon, and we can go out and celebrate. D'ya know why?" Samara looked at her and gurgled. "Because today's the day that your Daddy and I got out of Sadako's world." Samara smiled at her mom and giggled, causing Lani to smile. ----------- Mai ran from the living room, clutching the video, and ran up the stairs into the bedroom to Schleppy's side. "Schleppy! Wake Up! Please, this is horrible!" Schleppy sat up in bed, groggy. "What is it, Mai?" he said. He knew from experience that when Mai was this frightened, it was definately urgent. He saw the video, clutched in her hands. "Why," he said, a little frightened, "Are you holding that thing?" Mai started crying. "It's the curse- Sadako has cursed me, and our daughter. We both watched it! After all these years she's back." "B-back?" Schleppy asked, as if he needed anything other than Mai's word to know this was true. "But we stopped her six years ago- Exactly six years ago- Suzuki said that... Maybe if we were to summon it again..." "But Suzuki's dead, Schleppy," said Mai firmly, and frightened. "He's dead twice over. We can't do this without his help." Schleppy got up from bed. "What are you doing." "What do you think? I'm calling Lani and Chris- they have to know." but before Schleppy could reach for it- the phone rang. They were both silent and still- they knew! It rang four times, then five, then six. Answering it would change nothing of the curse, but it would make the ringing stop. Mai shook as she picked up the reciever, and put the earpiece to her and as much as she expected it, she still shivered with torment when she heard the malicious scraping on the other end. She held it for a while, allowing the anger to boil in her and screamed down the phoneline "F**k You, you b*tch!" and then slammed the phone down. And then fell onto the bed crying and completely breaking down- "That's it- I have seven days. Shizuko isn't going to live even to be six. She's going to kill us" Schleppy took a deep breath, and picked up the phone. "I hope they haven't watched it yet," he said. ----------- Lani hears the phone ring and picks it up. "Hello, Jordan residance, this is Lani speaking, how may I..." Away from the phone. "Samara, stop pulling Mommy's hair." Into the phone. "How may I help you?" "Lani? It's Schleppy." "Oh, hi there Schleppy, how's the family?" "Just took a turn for the worse." Lani held onto the phone for a second. "What do you mean?" "It's Sadako, Lani. En No Odzunu's got her again." -------------------- "You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're kidding. That means that they'll come for us..." Lani hods Samara closer to her. "Can't let anything hurt her, I just cant..." -------------------- "We just got her call. Don't worry, just don't let your family anywhere near the tape." "But who..." "Mai and Shizuko." Lani paused. "I-I'm sorry, Schleppy." "And now we've got our seven days left. What should we do? We can't just spread it, that's exactly what En wants. But I can't let them die." "What about what happened last time?" "We can't summon the sorcerer again without Suzuki, and he's dead twice over. Plus, that may have just been a fluke. Listen, we'll try and figure this out. Call me back when Chris comes home." He hung up. "Well?" he asked. "What exactly happened?" Mai paused and dried her tears. Schleppy held her hand, she looked so terrified. He softly spoke. "I won't let it happen i promise. I love you, i love you both." Mai then swallowed and told him. "She was here. She visited me, to let me know that we'd failed to destroy her evil. She said you and the others could live, unless you watched the video again. But then I went downstairs and found our Shizuko watching it. Sadako had come her to burn her curse onto Shizuko's video. She did this to punish me! She did this to me and our daughter!" "What have you done to her?" he asked, but then rethought it. She had told him all about what she'd doen after Ryuji died, and frankly, if he were Sadako, he'd be pretty p!ssed at her, too. "Well, we've just got to think this through, calmly. How are we supposed to do this?" -------------------- "Oh God...not again..." Samara yawned and looked at Lani. "I guess you need a nap, huh?" Lani carried Samara up stairs and but her in her crib and turned on the baby monitor. On her way downstairs, she saw Chris pulling the car into the drive way and walking into the house. Lani met him at the door with a forced smile. "So, how was your day at work?" "Okay. How about you?" "I finished chapter 5 and got a call from Schleppy. I need to call him back." "About what?" "She's back." "Who's back?" "Sadako." "Call him." Lani went over to the phone and dialed, and since this is an RPG and we can't use real phone numbers, the number was '1-555-555-5555' and put the phone on speaker phone. -------------------- The phone rang again at the Lundo's house in Japan. Schleppy picked it up. "Chris?" "Yeah, what happened? How'd she come back?" Schleppy explained everything to him over the phone. "Oh man, this is really big. Listen, we'll try and figure this out, but I can't bring Lani and our daughter over there, it's too dangerous, with the tape back. I just can't put her at risk like that." "But what about Samara?" Chris stood still on the other end of the ocean. At first, he thought Schleppy was referring to his and Lani's daughter. But then it hit him. "Oh, god. You don't think she's back, too?" "I don't see any reason why she wouldn't be." Schleppy paused. "Listen, you and your family are at just as much risk from Samara there as you are from Sadako here. Both of them are after us. The only way to be safe is if you don't look at any televisions, that's the only way her curse can be manifested at this point, and the only one safe there would be Zebu, I think." Zebu Black, the youngest member of their group six years ago, had been doing all sorts of missions as a Bounty Hunter in the desert as of late. Chris nodded. "Listen, I'll try and get in contact with Miya. If she walked a while in En's shoes, she can probably help us out here." -------------------- Due to the fact that they're talking on speaker phone, Lani butted into the conversation. "What can we do, besides wait for them? I think we should come to Japan, I maybe able to find the spell that we used last time...even if Suzuki's dead, I can try to do the spell again." -------------------- Miya where is she? where did she go? did she vanish? That is what people pondered after these long years. She lay in a asylum, for the insane. She lay as a nervous wreck. She is En No, a part of him. She is only a few years old, as she was created as soon as our heros watched that dreaded tape. Well the story did not end on that day those long years ago, the first chapter has only just finshed. The story has only just begun. She lay, saying many things, wierd things, creepy things, but..... mostly scary things. Things that still send shivers up the spines of those who care for her. Miya: "look at those pretty flowers." Scientist: "what does these flowers look like Miya?" Miya: "They are red, red roses." Scientist: "where are they Miya?" Miya: "On a boat" Scientist: "What type of boat?" Miya: "a boat with a body on it, a dead body..... your body." Yes that is true Miya see's many things, she see's death, and demons, they never go away. And she likes them. ------------- Lani looked at the speaker on the phone as a feeling rushed through her. "Red roses..." Chris gave her a worried look. "Red roses?" "Something about Miya and red roses..." Upstairs, Samara started to cry. Schleppy paused on the phone a moment and looked at Mai brightening slightly. She dried her tears. "Are you O.K. now?" he asked her. She nodded meekly. "We have seven days. It should be enough time to figure out another way." She smiled at him and he returned it. She continued "If we fail, then I will copy it for our Shizuko and pass it on to someone." "Listen," said Schleppy. "If we saved Miya by defeating En, then maybe she's back to how she was during the last few days. So we might not want to track her down. Besides, she'll probably come to us, where ever she is. Listen, not to be insencere or anything, but pack your bags. If we're going to solve this, we'll need you two along with us." Chris was flustered. "But what about Samara? We can't just bring her along with us!" "Oh, come on, Chris. Sadako was able to get Mai and Shizuko without us going to her cabin. Samara- the evil one, I mean- would probably do just the same to your daughter." Chris sighed. He looked at Samara. She was sitting on her mother's lap, smiling and making baby noises. If she only knew what was going on... "Alright, Schleppy. You win- we're going to Japan and are going to try and help you." Samara cooed up at Lani and smiled. "My lucky little angel, you have no idea what's happening..." Schleppy arranged the meeting with his friends over the phone and then hung up, and turned to Mai. "Well they're on their way here." A post-terror calm seemed to take over Mai. "she'll be after them too. I know it, I felt it." Schleppy pondered "Why did Sadako choose us again? Does she want revenge?" Mai "Maybe she knows we're the best people to spread the curse- because we all know that copying the tape's the only way to save our daughter." Schleppy nodded and sat by her, holding her. "Yep that makes sense. Or maybe its not about revenge. we were her slaves when En No was frozen. If she wanted revenge she'd go for Lani and Zebu first, not me and you. So she came for you first because she wanted to make us her slaves again. She wants us back." Mai "But maybe it is about revenge. I'm the one who turned Ryuji against her , and you did too." Schleppy: "I don't think Ryuji was that important though, to Sadako's plan" Mai "Well maybe personally he was important to her. I tried not to think it when I saw her and him together those years ago, but I couldn't help it- I could feel a connection so strong between them. And we broke that connection and forced her to destroy him." Schleppy: "What do you mean?" Mai looked at him. "I think maybe he was..... her lover." Schleppy was silent for a moment. "Look, it's not going to happen. That freak isn't gonna get us again." Mai looked at him, desperate to believe him, desperate to trust him. "What can we do?" she asked emptily Schleppy: "We just have to summon the sorcerer again." Mai: "I think Lani returned the spellbook to Suzuki's family. She said she couldn't just take a dead man's book. But we don't have their address. Do you still keep in touch with J Lopez?" ------------------- Miya: "tum dee dum, lee laa laa." Doctor: "Miya why did you draw this?" Miya: "what?" Doctor: "The picture, of a hooded man?" Miya: "Bored." Doctor: "Miya tell me" Miya: "he he you are going to die." ---------- Later that day the doctor dies in a car crash, they then put Miya under tight survalience, she does not sleep. -------------- Whilst Schleppy looked for J Lopez's number, Mai called Ryomi- Yoichi's aunty. As usual she sounded pleased to hear from her, but still perpetually sad, after all she still had a lot to deal with all those years ago that her daughter, her father and her sister had all died within the same month. She still wasn't strong enough to deal with it all on an emotional level. And then having been given custody of Yoichi when his parents died, she had to look out for and worry about him. It was easier now though, with him now being 15 years old and virtually independant. Mai asked her if it were possible for Shizuko to stay over. After all, Yoichi was the only one she knew she could trust to keep her away from the TV. Ryomi agreed. She was very protective and would make sure little Shizuko would come to no harm. She arranged a time to bring her over and then hung up. Samara cooed up at Lani, who smiled at her. One thing she noticed about Samara was that she hardly cried, she always seemed happy. "I won't let anything hurt you Sammy, I swear." Chris came over to Lani and Samara and hugged them both (awww, kodak moment). While the whole time, Samara kept on cooing. "Found it!" said Schleppy. He picked up the phone again. In Texas, Mr. Lopez, who had in recent times become a webmaster of a successful Ring site, answered the phone. "Hello, Lopez residence." "J?" "Who is this?" "It's Schleppy Lundo." J sat up. He hadn't heard from Schleppy ever since he had married Mai. "Hey, Schleppy! How're things going on over there?" "Not good," said Schleppy. He proceeded to explain everything that had happened in the past few hours. J was speechless. "When did this happen?" "At about 7:00 this morning, our time. Listen, we need you to try and track down Suzuki's spell book while we try and figure this out." "Alright, I'll do the best I can, Schleppy." "Talk to you later." "Bye." Schleppy hung up. "Listen. Lopez is going to try and track down Suzuki's book. Take Shizuko over to Ryomi's house, and make sure Yoichi knows what's going down." Mai nodded, grimly. Schleppy held Mai close. "Don't worry, honey. Sadako is not going to get you." J walked over to his computer, and started searching. "This is going to be hard," he thought, as he tried all sorts of search engines looking for something from Suzuki other than the Ring novels and Dark Water. He got nothing at first, but after a few different search engines, he finally did get someting on E-Bay. "Suzuki Family Heirloom: Hocus-Pocus book by author of 'Ring'" J clicked on it as fast as he could, but it had been bought a few days before. "Damn," thought J. He clicked on the seller's name, hoping to try and get some info on the buyer. Whilst Schleppy pondered his wife and daughter's fate, and contemplated the video which had now made its way back to them after all these years, Mai left with Shizuko in their car. They drove in silence for a while. Then Shizuko spoke. "Mommy- I'm scared." Mai kept her eyes on the road she thought for a moment and decided to lie to her. Like all children, she deserved to have a care-free and innocent childhood, and to learn the hard facts of life and beyond later. She smiled falsely. "There's no reason to be scared. Why do you say that?" "I saw a woman on the TV. She wanted to hurt me" Mai reached over and stroked her hair. "Don't be silly. Someone on a TV can't harm you." "But I could feel it mommy. She was a ghost, and she could see me. She looked at me like she wanted me dead." Mai paused. "Shizuko, do you remember when you were three, we used to have that vacuum cleaner that was yellow, and it looked so ugly that you were scared of it?" Shizuko went a little red. "Yes." Mai smiled at her again. "It's just the same, nothing really there to be scared of. And I'll have to tell Ryomi not to let you watch TV if you're getting scared by it." Shizuko put her head down. "You still don't believe me." Mai breathed. The car came to a stop outside Ryomi's. Mai turned to Shizuko. "I want you to listen and believe me Shizuko. I love you, and me and your father always look out for you. If someone wanted to harm you, I'd know about it, and I wouldn't ever let them so much as touch you." Shizuko looked back at her doubtfully. Mai's look became firm. "Do you trust me?" Shizuko smiled emptily and said "Yes mommy." Mai "Good- so you're not going to worry, and you're not going to make poor Ryomi worry either." "No mommy." "And you'll be good for her and do what she tells you" "Yes mommy" She then held her hand and took her to the front door. Ryoko answered the door and ushered them in. Ryomi certainly seemed to be happier, but Yoichi wasn't back yet, so Mai said she'd like to wait for him to return. so Ryomi did tea and biscuits for them all. ------------- En no had more plans up his sleave, and a new Sadako-like being was reaching fruitation. In the north there once lived the girl Semetu. She had a simple life, her parents where fishermen and they both died one day when their boat capsised. Semetu had predicted that would happen and the villagers were scared of her. But she was adopted by the U.S. Depo that lay near her village. One day her simple life ended. Semetu: "HEY GUYS DINNERS DONE" Soilder: "Oh WOW, you are an amazing cook." Soilder 2: "yeah she is the best in the north." Semetu smiled: "Thank you all and thank you loot for looking after me." That day a new recuit got word, his girlfrind had left him in america. Filled with sorrow he bumped into Semetu. She was so innocent, and he raped her, and killed her. He threw the body into a nearby abandoned shaft. The month after every one in the depo was dead, people from the villiage where afraid to go there, though odd radio sigals where broadcasted from the depo. And thats how a new servant of en no was born. --------------- As Shizuko played with the family cat in the garden, Mai and Ryomi sat at the table. Mai tried to retain a happy, unworried composure but she could feel Sadako in this house. Sadako had been here many years ago and had killed Tomoko right here. And she had left her evil essence behind. Mai put on as sincere a smile as she could "So what's Yoichi been doing?" she asked in Japanese naturally. Ryomi spoke fondly "He's going in to the chess championships later in the year." Mai "He really seems to have a passion for chess." Ryomi thought for a moment. "It's a game of life, of fighting and of loss." she said thinking of Tomoko and Reiko. "And you can't go back and change your move. You just have to accept what's happened." Mai placed her hand ofer Ryomi's. Ryomi smiled back at her "Yoichi has been through a lot, we both have, we both lost a whole family those years ago. But we still have each other" Ryomi didn't want to go any further, so she changed the subject "He's made a lot of friends at the chess club." Mai "Has he found a girlfriend yet?" "No, not yet. I think he's looking for the perfect type. He's very perceptive about people and very picky. He seems to have avoided getting into trouble with other kids. He judges bad crowds and knows to stay clear." Mai "Shizuko's a good girl too. She got very scared while watching a film the other day, so I think there should be no videos for her anymore." Ryomi "She'll grow out of it. you see so many scary films that you become unshockable. Well except for that urban legend those years ago. The one that Reiko was covering. That got everyone scared of the TV and video." Mai "The legend was over quickly though. That's all it was. A distortion of facts and whispers after a tragedy. I mean I even started to believe it after Ryuji's death. We all do. It just shifts our perception of the real world. We read too much into things that have no bearing on reality. Partly because we want the escapism." Ryomi "I guess there's nothing wrong with a little escapism. Shizuko is living in those brief years where her life is allowed to be a fantasy land. Something she should enjoy whilst it lasts." Mai "Yes, she watches Monsters Inc five times a week and knows all the characters and memorises all the details of that monster land, ever since Schleppy bought it her for Christmas from the States. We were going to take her to the states later this year. Her father's home." Ryomi "Schleppy has adapted quite well to Japanese life hasn't he." Mai sipped her tea again "Well I met him whilst he was a tourist here. We were staying at the same hotel. And somehow we fell in love and he fell in love with Japan." Then the door opened and Yoichi came through the door. My god, thought Mai, he has gotten so big. She smiled at him, whilst simultaneously telepathically sending him the message "She's back" ----------- Meanwhile in the US, Lani and Chris were packing their bags for Japan, while Samara slept. They packed in silence for sometime, until it became unbearable. "Chris, what are we supposed to do? What if we can't get the book back." "We will. Don't worry, it's not like it's going to go wrong. You haven't watched the tape, so in theory, Sadako or Samara can't get you if you cast the spell." "What about Sammy? What if they manage to pull her to their side." "They won't." Lani smiled and they went on packing. Schleppy looked at the tape. Could he really do it? Of course he could, but would he? He closed his eyes. He loved Mai and Shizuko more than anybody else- he could not let them die. But if he knew one thing about Mai, it was that she'd feel the same way. If she knew what he was thinking right now, she would chew him out. He couldn't let her know. Schleppy sighed. He put the tape back- he couldn't do it now, no matter what his decision was. "Tonight," thought Schleppy, "I'll figure this out." After a while downstairs where in front of Ryomi, Mai and Yoichi exchanged falsely happy thoughts, Yoichi asked Mai to come up to his room to show her his previous Chess Trophies. Although really it was a lie so that he could get to talk to her in private. They went to his room, walking past Tomoko's, where the dead girl's furniture remained untouched and unmoved. They entered Yoichi's room and sat on the bed together. Yoichi spoke. "I know she's back. She appeared in Tomoko's room this morning. I went in to see her staring back at me. She was screaming, 'what was hers is now mine'." Mai "Did she mean Tomoko?" Yoichi nodded. "I haven't seen Tomoko though." Mai "You know not to trust her if she appears- she's not Tomoko anymore, now that Sadako has claimed her." Yoichi. "I'll never trust her spirit. My Grandfather died because of her lies." Mai tried to reassure him "Her spirit may become Tomoko again if we defeat En No." Yoichi was still bitter. "But why? Why didn't it stop Sadako?what went wrong?" Mai "We don't know yet. I and Shizuko have seven days." He looked up, totally mortified. "YOU'VE watched it?" She nodded and he shiook his head "No- it's not true! She can't take you from me too." Mai spoke gently "Yoichi. It has happened. Fetch the camera and you will find I am marked." Yoichi reluctantly did as she said and photographed her. He gasped in terror when he saw her melted picture develop before his eyes. Mai "I'm sorry Yoichi. I never want you to be alone again. And I will do everything to save myself and my daughter, and destroy that monster forever." Yoichi was starting to cry. It wasn't something he did often at 15 years old. "Please copy the tape. Save yourself, for me, live for me." Mai levelled her eyes at him. "No Yoichi. Sadako will win if I do. I wouldn't be any more able to live with the guilt than your mother was. I'm sorry." Yoichi became angry. "Then you destroy her- destroy her! Make sure she pays for all she did to all those I loved. My cousin, my mother, my father, my Grandfather." Mai "I promise. I will do all I can to vanquish her evil. She will never kill anyone again." She kissed him on the forehead. "Please keep my daughter safe." She then went downstairs. and said her goodbyes to Ryomi and Shizuko, and left. Schleppy was sitting on the couch, thinking, when Mai returned. "Hey, honey," said Schleppy, giving her a kiss. "Hi," said Mai. Schleppy sighed. "Listen, there's nothing to worry about. Chris and Lani are going to be here tomorrow. By that time we should have Suzuki's book. We'll be able to beat her without any problems whatsoever." It would be pointless to say that Schleppy's voice was unsure. Mai did not reply to him. "Listen. It's getting late, and we've got a long day tomorrow. Let's get to bed." "Alright," she said morosely. --- Only an hour later, Mai was fast asleep beneath the bedsheets. Schleppy, however, was sitting in the living room. He had reached his decision. Schleppy put the blank tape into the second VCR, and hooked it up to the first one. He picked up the remotes, and went into the bedroom. "I'm sorry about this, Mai," he said, as he used her fingers to record the tape. A few minutes later, he kissed her cheek, and went into the living room. He switched the television on, sat down, and watched his copy. When he was done, he took it out of the VCR, and threw it away. He got back into bed with Mai, but could not fall asleep for the entirety of the night.  |
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