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“How do you know it's a him?" Abel asked. "He's not wearing his pronouns on a name tag." "Male Sunrise Reapers have orange eyes," Roa said. "Females have red or yellow." "But what if he's nonbinary?" Abel wondered. "And we've offended him." "Then he'll eat us." Roa considered it. "I can respect that.”

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