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“I absorbed its deathly visage, trying and failing to match it with the voice in my head. The revenant had devoured the populations of entire cities; it was also the entity who ordered me to eat my pottage. ‘I’ll have you know that I’m very good-looking by undead standards,’ the revenant remarked, after I had stared for a long time without speaking. I frowned in annoyance.”

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