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<span class="mu-b">HOLD ON - I <span class="mu-s">THINK</span> I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING! I READ HALF A TRANSLATION ON THE ONE SOURCE FOR THIS I COULD FIND---</span>
<span class="mu-i">Ink flips a page and screams a word in a language the tongue wasn't meant to speak and something alltogether uncomfortable happens with the cardinal grid that undergirds Reality itself.</span>
. . . And on the side of a boat, in a moment between just now and a little later, Here and There and the Other, a man in a red-stained robe and wrapped in bandages, could... well...
The Ocean, friend. It's right there. All it would take would be a little . . . shift . . . of a muscle...
>Fall Into the Ocean?
>No, I think I rather like my endoskeleton, thank you. Maybe some other time, I like having lungs.
> . . . Maybe ... Maybe I could let the Ocean into... Me?
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Arrows flit through the air as the Houngineers arrange a firing line. Knight Laelaps, First Pursuer of the House Luperni, screams loud enough to shake the waters. It's all together too late.
Because we... Oh, softsoul.
We aren't even here any more.
>INTERMISSION.
>OPERATION COMPLETE