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“The mistakenly killed engineers let out gasps and you see the shadow before you se its source. The thing is large and ambles on four legs like a hound. It leaps along the roofs of the cars, but all you see is a mass of hair, teeth and eyes. It is what you hear that terrifies. Voices caked in fear, imprisoned in flesh, like souls beyond help. A cacophony of mewling, like duelling synthesisers played badly. As if synthesisers could be played any other way.”

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Book:The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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“We must all find pointless causes to live for, or why bother with breath? Because, on reflection, once you have seen your own face and recognised the colour of your eyes, tasted the air and smelled the soil, drunk from the purest fountains and the dirtiest wells, that is the kindest thing you can say about life. Its's not nothing.”

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Book:The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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