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"There is no door." I grinned, but not in

  • "There is no door." I grinned, but not in a happy way. "Of course there is. How else could we have gotten in here?" His eyes narrowed and he said "You don't get it, do you?" We

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  • moved a few steps, and looked around. He turned back to me and threw up his hands, taking in the vast expanse around them. "We are trapped

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  • here, however, even if we can't get out, we can wait!" He was right. Help would eventually arrive. "Do you play Scene-it?", he asked, to my surprise. I looked at him blankly.

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  • "MY PLAYTHINGS ARE THE SOULS OF MORTAL MEN" I replied. That made for an awkward moment before I explained that I am, in fact, become death, destroyer of worlds.

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  • They still didn't understand. I pointed out that eventually I was going to be guiding every one of them to their final destination. I demonstrated by touching Healy's head. "Oops."

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  • Healy's head, rather easily, fell right off her neck. " i have weak tendons" she said dryly "i'm used to it". i picked up her head and brushed the twigs out of her hair, then

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  • went to pass it to her, but just as I extended my arms a huge polar bear came barrelling past and whammed me in the back. I threw Healy's head into the street. The bear didn't even

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  • miss a beat. He galumphed right over to Healy's head and ate it in one deft motion. "You stupid polar bear!" I yelled, "you spoiled our game!" The creature looked at me with

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  • its dark, hungry eyes. "Don't look at me, look at Healy!" I directed. "Finish what you started!" After the polar bear had sated itself, it seemed safer to string up patio lights

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  • and dance naked under the stars. As days of celebration go this one was turning out better than expected; enemies taken care of and I live to see another day, perhaps to hunt again

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