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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:45:28 GMT -6
Smiling at her she watches her once more reach out with her clawed hand at the leaf, this time actually giving it a little bit of distance so that she could see better what is going on instead of placing it directly on the leaf and blocking her view. “Darkness Drain.” She says with a grin, and settles herself more comfortable in her cross-legged position, her legs almost feel like they are sleeping with how long she is in this position. But with Envix carrying around an aura of being pleased with herself for getting it down each time a little faster, she doesn’t regret it. Watching in concentration she noticed the beginnings of when the shadows trickle into Envix, it really looks like the smoky shadows are playful when it happens as it twirls around Envix’s claws when its within reach and she’d need to coach it to get inside herself. “Darkness Drain!” She intones with a smile as the last of the lighter shadows get absorbed inside of Envix. Then, before she would really think about if she should do it and alert Envix, she lunges at Envix. ‘Hey!’ She hears her shout in her mind as Envix dodges the hand that she tried to use to swipe at her with the intend to attack. It was more of a stumbling she accomplished when she tried to do it (and it was at least six inches short of actually being able to ‘touch’ her) as her legs are definitely asleep, but with how quick Envix was able to respond to it made her laugh in a carefree way. Happiness and pleasure could be heard in her tone of voice when she responds to Envix. ‘I think you’ve done it Envix, you’ve really learned how to dodge and escape from sudden danger, good job!’ With her clapping her hands as a congratulations towards Envix, she startles her out of the pensive mood she suddenly came into. ‘To just know when danger strikes right?’ She says with a slight hesitance, though she gains more confidence when she sees her nod and say a simple yes towards Envix question.
*43 -Darkness Drain, Danger Sense (End) Envix LV 45.0 LY 40.0
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:45:40 GMT -6
Nodding she says in her mind. ‘Yep, exactly. And I don’t think I will need to do that now any longer, but!’ She waves her finger at Envix seriously, and cracks a smile when seeing with the movement of Envix head she is actively following her finger. ‘Should someone do get the drop on you when you could have dodged it, we will be back to square one with it!’ And this is something she is quite serious about. Envix stares at her face with that proclamation, slowly answering her as she tilts her head to the side a little. ‘Alright, that seems fair I suppose.’ Nodding at that answer she slowly starts to stand up, shaking first one leg then the other in the hopes of getting rid of the tingling feeling in her legs sooner. “Right then.” She mutters when she feels like walking will be less of a problem with legs that still feel halfway between sleep and waking. Taking careful steps towards the bush, she breaks a couple of twigs off it, about five of them with a good deal of leaves still clinging happily to it. Going back to the patch of dirt she drops the smallest of the bunch in the middle, then proceeds to slowly sit down, back in her cross-legged position, and drops the other four behind her. Hopefully Envix will be done with this soon, and they’d be able to go home. She already has tomorrow another set of things to teach her, and she is pretty excited about that as well. “Darkness Drain.” She says quickly when she noticed Envix is already reaching out with her claw for it, this time just a bit farther away again.
*44 -Darkness Drain Envix LV 45.1 LY 40.1
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:45:51 GMT -6
Her eyebrows raised in surprise as only after about two minutes Envix is already able to suck in the vitality of the leaves with how the shadows seem to move so quickly towards her. ‘How?!’ She says in a astonished tone, honestly curious about how she seems to be able to get it right that quickly when with the ones before it took longer. ‘Its less hard surprisingly to focus on something bigger, and can just drag out their energy inside of it much more easier this way.’ She moves her claw further away from the twig while still being busy absorbing it, it almost didn’t seem like it could end. “Darkness Drain! Almost forgot to say that.” She mutters the last part more to herself, watching in interest as it seems to take a while, but Envix followed her own plan. Slowly stepping back farther, and farther away while continuing to use her skill in it. Finally when the last of the shadows trickled inside of Envix, she bends her back as if in tiredness while her wings droop, though. Perhaps she is tired? They hadn’t taken much of a break in a while now. ‘That was a little harder then expected.’ She hears Envix say in a tired tone. ‘How so?’ She asks while turning her attention to the twig in the patch of dirt. Carefully picking it up. Some of the leaves didn’t look as dead as they normally are, more orange then brown, and less cracked and dry. But with how green it used to be, it went quite well.
*45 -Darkness Drain Envix LV 45.2 LY 40.2
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:46:03 GMT -6
Shifting her attention back towards Envix the moment she felt like her Lurker companion is going to answer her instead of looking at the leaves, she noticed Envix is still presenting herself in way that expresses tiredness. ‘The farther away, the more effort it takes to grab only the energy from that source, and not anything closer, or still keep the connection active when the distance gets bigger.’ She hears Envix murmur in her mind, all of which felt rather logical as it isn’t like she is the one shooting things away from her. Which probably would have been easier. Rather, she is the one grabbing at the target to pull it towards her all the while it is struggling against that unnatural pull. ‘That makes sense, I guess. For now, just rest in my shadows or that of the tree’s. We could both take a break, and I have been thirsty for a while now.’ She comments with a smile, dropping the twig to her side and then proceeding to grab her bag and drag it closer towards her. Opening one of the mid-sized zippers, she rummages through it till with a cheer she finds the bottle she is looking for. Unscrewing the cap she drinks till its only about half full, exhaling in satisfaction now that her thirst is lessened. Looking around, she couldn’t immediately tell where exactly Envix might be as she doesn’t see her eyes in the shadows of the tree, but when she looks down at her own shadow she twitches at seeing Envix stare right at her. Apparently, she did take her invitation readily enough of being in her shadow and resting there.
*46 Envix LV 45.3 LY 40.3
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:46:14 GMT -6
Deciding to ignore her presence being literally sunk into her shadows she lays down, stretching herself out. Sometimes it does brings up the question of how she is able to do it, but a being made of literal shadows and fused with magic. To them it is possible as easy as breathing. ‘A nap right now sounds perfect.’ She mutters inside her mind towards Envix, and for some reason a flash of feelings she is certain to not be of her own answers her back in something like agreement? Ignoring the odd occurrence for now, she slowly let her thoughts drift, falling asleep without even noticing it. Its only when she gets the flash of cold wind in her face now and then that makes her twitch and start to wake up. Her thoughts still muddled as she opens her eyes and yelps in surprise at a black claw swiping at her, closing her eyes reflexively and tensing up as she expects to be hit. But when she only felt cold air hitting her face when the weather is actually a bit warmer than that, she opens her eyes and sees Envix stare at her. Blinking she slowly starts to move in a cross-legged position, wincing slightly at the feeling of the twigs that where able to dig in her back. She probably forgot she had dropped them behind herself when she went to sleep. ‘Envix?’ She mutters confusedly, though looking at her companion she can tell the rest did her good. ‘You weren’t waking up quickly enough, so I proceeded to help.’ She hears the mischief tone in her haunting voice, the tone so familiar that exhaling helped calm her nerves. Sometimes Envix could be quite a jerk when she feels up to causing some trouble.
*47 -Empathic Link Envix LV 45.4 LY 40.4
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:46:28 GMT -6
‘Right, that would make total sense to scare the crap out of me.’ She says sarcastically towards her companion, while she grabs from behind on of the twigs that had been digging in her back. It looks a little broken, but the leaves still look good enough to work perfectly with what they are going to do again. Dropping it on the patch of dirt, she says in a cheerful tone. “Darkness Drain.” If Envix had wanted to respond, it seems she chose not to when she said those two words out loud. Making it clear she’d rather want to get back to business and continue with their progress. Envix only stalled for a moment as she moved further away from her target, just about the spot she stopped at last time, but perhaps by half a meter closer? She wasn’t to certain, but she watches how Envix raises her claw while her eyes became mere slits. Her focus completely on the twig. This time it took longer for her to make it happen, perhaps only a few more minutes longer compared to last time, but she was able to absorb the energy just as fast if not a little bit faster once more. ‘Good job Ennvix!’ She praises her companion, smiling at the sight of Envix puffing out her chest in pride while the twig she had been working on is completely dried out at the leaves. Just moving the twig out of the way made the leaves fall apart. She really put in quite a bit of effort with this.
*48 -Darkness Drain Envix LV 46.0 LY 41.0
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:46:40 GMT -6
Placing the third twig on the ground, this one more filled with leaves and larger, she grins at Envix. Her chest still seems to be puffed out while her wings where less behind her back, but also not quite spread wide as if to be used for taking of and flying. “Darkness Drain Envix!” She says excitedly, watching Envix raise her clawed hand and- She blinks in surprise as she sees that within a minute Envix starts the progress of absorbing the energy from the leaves rapidly, the grey shadows moving to quickly to tell if it is still in that playful twirling or just sinking right in without a pause. ‘Where you holding back Envix?’ She couldn’t help but wonder as she watches with surprise how efficient it went. When it was done Envix’s eyes dimmed for a second, then brightened again as Envix turns her attention to her. ‘Just a little perhaps, I had to get the ‘feeling’ for it again to make certain I am doing it right. Resting in the shadows helped quite a bit to recover my energy with all this exercising.’ She hears Envix say excitingly to her, for some reason it made her think this was perhaps the longest sentence spoken towards her. ‘That’s great Envix.’ She smiles at her, definitely glad that for however long they slept or rested seemed to have helped her.
*49 -Darkness Drain Envix LV 46.1 LY 41.1
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:46:52 GMT -6
Grabbing the second twig, she switches it out with the one now full of brown leaves that crack and break apart so easily with the movement she did, and throws that one away from them. Looking at Envix, she could tell her companion is waiting for her to start on it, and with a gesture of her hand that is a universal continue, she says. “Envix Darkness Drain!” In a clear tone, and smiles at seeing Envix flutter with her wings before at the distance she is keeping raises her claw in a motion as if to pull something. She hadn’t seen her do that motion before, but she laughs in exhilaration when she sees that the energy of the leaves once more leave the vegetation behind to go directly at Envix. Turning her attention to the leaves she watches it change color, going from the fresh and bright green towards a shade of orange and yellow, then finally turning brown and becoming more dehydrated where it starts to curl up or crack in places. Pieces of it breaking apart whenever a gust of wind comes, something that today doesn’t happen all that often.
*50 -Darkness Drain Envix LV 46.2 LY 41.2
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:47:06 GMT -6
Looking up at Envix once the last of the shadows seems to be absorbed by her, she smiled. ‘You’ve done that excellent as well Envix, ready for the final twig?’ She says in a teasing tone as she replaced the old twig with a new one again, this one just a bit smaller but probably equal in how many leaves it carries. ‘Thank you, and I am ready.’ Envix says as her attention seems to be focused on the twig, her wings folded neatly into place again. “Alright, then let’s do this. Darkness Drain!” She says, and grins at how Envix only moved when she heard the command, and not at the first part of what she said, having wanted to test her just a little to see how she would do with when there is more words placed in a sentence that might have confused her. She hadn’t been sending her words out mentally towards Envix this time, but she still succeeded in her test with flying colors.
*51 -Darkness Drain Envix LV 46.3 LY 41.3
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:47:23 GMT -6
When the last of the shadows got absorbed in Envix, and having watches how Envix while doing so started to move farther away again this time, she could only feel pride at Envix success. This might have taken them.. She trails of in her own thoughts for a bit as she looks at the position of the sun, her eyebrow raised in surprise. It might have taken them at least a couple of hours if she includes the napping as well. Still progress was made surprisingly quickly. ‘Alright Envix,’ She says in a cheerful tone, getting her Lurker’s attention as she stands up carefully, shaking off the feeling of legs that are more sleeping then awake with the tingling she feels in her effort to get up, and grabs her backpack, sliding the straps on her shoulder-blades, before turning her attention once more at Envix. ‘lets try this one more time at that bush.’ She points in the direction she knows the bush is at without looking at it, but hesitates when Envix looks sheepishly at her in body language. Getting suspicious, she turns her attention to the mentioned bush and doesn’t know if she should groan in exasperation or laugh at what Envix has been doing while she slept.
*52 -Darkness Drain Envix LV 46.4 LY 41.4
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 9, 2019 10:48:12 GMT -6
She settled on giving Envix a long look instead. ‘Holding back a little hmm? Really?’ She couldn’t help but comment, as the bush she had been pointing at already had to endure Envix’s cruel intention. She couldn’t see one green leaf on the bush at all from the distance they where at, it looks as dehydrated and cracked as the twigs they had used ended up looking like. With just very few even leaning towards a yellow, but could be more seen as a pale comparison towards that color. ‘In my defense,’ Envix begins to say as they move towards the aforementioned bush. ‘you took longer to rest then I needed too, so it’s only logical.. to pass my time trying to experiment with this.’ Well, in a way she should have suspected her companion to do that on her own. It is one of quirks that makes her so quick on the uptake once she figures something out, her curiosity in how things work can drive her far. Sighing, she lets it go for now, looking at the result, she swipes her hand at the bush, twigs break easily off the bush while she gets a handful of leaves and, is that dead insects? Checking her hand, she definitely sees a dried out and very dead ladybug among the leaf litter she had grabbed. Wiping her hands clean of it she turns her attention towards Envix. ‘Alright then, since it seems you’ve experimented further with it while I was asleep,’ She raises her eyebrow at her lurker companion, the twitching of her lips betraying the serious facade she tries to hold while a smile is threatening to break loose. ‘I guess you’ve learned it completely then, still!’ She says quickly before Envix might have cheered at being done now. ‘I have at home a stubborn plant that needs to be removed, and since you did it so well with this one.’ She points at the bush. ‘Then you can show me your technique at home, and I can then finally get rid of plant.’ A small tree would probably have been the better choice of words, but she ignores that small fact as she then grins at Envix. ‘Good job Envix, let’s go home now. We’ll remove the plant, then I’ll be feeding myself and the rest of the menagerie with Memphis help, and after that we can start reading your book again.’ She comments idly, finally smiling at seeing Envix perk up at the mention of reading a book. Quickly she uses her wings to flutter up in the air and start moving in a direction once she found what she is looking for. ‘This way! The path is here!’ She hears her say in excited tones, the haunting quality not nearly as apparent with the childlike way Envix expresses herself just now. “I’m coming.” She calls out, and follows after her companion.
*53 -Darkness Drain (End) Envix LV 47.0 LY 42.0 Twilight 0.3 - Levelled and logged
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 13, 2019 22:52:12 GMT -6
‘ It feels like such a long while that we did it last time, doesn’t it?’ She comments idle as she walks in the park, at her side Rayak walks right next to her in the comfortable pace they have settled on walking. She had been planning to come to the park today with Envix again, but that plan couldn’t happen when Envix decided to play hide with no chance of her being able to seek her out. ‘ Oh well, no reading another chapter in the book tonight.’ She thinks towards Envix while she sees from the corner of her eye that Rayak caught that stray thought as well when he looked up curiously at her. ‘ Reading books as a reward now for doing a good job?’’ Rayak comments in a curious tone, his ear flicked to side for a second as he focuses his attention to something further away, perking up at the sight of something that seems to his liking. ‘ Yep, when food can’t be a reward, or hugs I suppose, this is the next best bet. At least when it comes to Envix.’ She says with a casual tone as she focuses on what Rayak sees, smiling at the perfect patch of grass interspaced with tree’s that are not so close together to become cumbersome. “This is perfect Rayak.” She says out loud, definitely glad that the space seems perfect. Walking faster to the spot she notes that no one is occupying the space either, going deeper inside the area with Rayak she stops at a certain spot, dropping her backpack carefully on the ground, she had taken along with her for their food and water, as well as some of the equipment they could use. “Right then, Rayak.” She calls out, getting his attention as he settles down on his butt, his tail flicking idle in relaxation. ‘ You remember how you flew in all the tournaments we have been in?’ She says cheerfully as Rayak slowly nods, remembering quite well how in his moments of desperation it just seemed to click. ‘ I want you to try that again, but this time we try to do that on command. You still remember the movements for it right?’ She pauses, smiling when Rayak nods again and slowly summons his first set of ethereal wings, sprouting them from his back in such a way it is seems like Rayak is always using them. Which in his case is not truly so, swimming and digging through the earth to make a cave he could be proud to sleep in, is his preferred way spending his day. ‘ Right then, try to get up in the air Rayak’ And gestures with her hand to begin. Narrowing his eyes he looks up at her with serious intention. ‘ Right.’ Looking up at the sky he seems to search for a good spot to fly at, and when finding it, scrapes his claws lightly at the earth under his paws, bracing himself before jumping up in the air. “Fly!” She calls out as Rayak flaps his wings wildly, with no direction yet on which way to go, and lands with a thump on the ground with all four paws. ‘ What if you use a running start, and then try it? We could build up your endurance at the same time.’ She comments. *1 -Fly, Endurance Rayak LV 283.0, LY 235.0
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 13, 2019 22:58:55 GMT -6
It felt like a good idea, practice two things at the same time, and hopefully it would give him a better way to jump higher up in air and orientate his wing movements better. ‘I suppose we could try for that, it will certainly give me more exercise.’ She hears Rayak say, grinning she watches him start to run first idle in a circle around her before heading in a straight line wings folded at a part where the tree’s are growing farther apart. “Fly!” She calls out, and watches how Rayak jumps in the air, unfolds his wings as quickly as possible, and flaps them again. ‘Rayak, try to have your wings grab the air in an upside-down bowl of water shape. You know the ones you always drink from when going with me somewhere and I want you to stay hydrated?’ Rayak didn’t respond to her words with one of his own comments after he landed on the ground again, only looking thoughtfully at his wings as he spreads them out. She smiles when seeing him do that cupping formation she is talking about, flapping his wings harshly with that motion and without her mentioning it, letting go at the points he needs to do it in order to make the most use of the motion. ‘Ready to try it again?’ She says, hoping he feels ready to try it out once more. ‘Yes, I should be just about ready. I think it might be because its been a long time that I forgot how to do it.’
He mutters with annoyance in his tone, and sees him shaking his head a little before doing a whole body shudder and stretching out his wings, then folds them back in a comfortable position. “Rayak use dash!” She calls out, getting a surprised look from him, but he seems to understand short runs instead of longer ones would be better for getting into the air as he runs without hesitation for a short bit, then jumps in the air. “Fly!” She calls out, watching nervously as Rayak for a moment almost seems to have forgotten what he practiced for a few minutes with his wings, but then when his wings finally seem to grasp at the air in the right motion, things go much smoother. ‘You did it Rayak!’ She cheers, and watches him fly for a short bout, landing much more gracefully the ones before his failure. “Now again Rayak, use Dash!” She calls out, not wanting him to take a break yet or learning how to be able to go at it with running multiple times will just end up in failure. Rayak growled softly when he heard it, but didn’t hesitate with running for a short time, jumping at the point he felt the speed would bring him at its highest with his jumps. “Fly!” She calls out quickly, smiling when it looks like that it only took him a few seconds to figure out again what the right way of flying is. Letting him fly for a minute long brought her up to an idea. “Rayak use Dash!” She calls out, knowing quite well it would mean he’ll need to land in order to run. Though perhaps since it is actually more a short burst of speed, this could also be used in the sky?
*2 -Fly, Endurance Rayak LV 283.1, LY 235.1
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 13, 2019 22:59:24 GMT -6
Its certainly worth thinking about, but she made certain to keep that tiny thought tightly inside her mind, she didn’t want to bring Rayak up to any ideas. ‘What are you planning?’ Rayak says to her, the voice inside her mind sounding slightly tired as sees him land carefully on all four paws, before he fold his wings and he starts running. ‘Allowing you to learn Endurance in the best way possible.’ She comments back, and this time didn’t wait for him to jump before calling out, “Fly!” in a loud and clear tone of voice. Rayak did seem to start getting tired at least a little with how his speed is flagging, but he will have to push through that. Hearing a clear growl coming from Rayak’s throat, she sees him bending his front deeper before jumping up. His wings catching the air each time more easily. She can definitely see the difference between Envix style of flying and Rayak’s, while she has shorter wing strokes and empties her energy more quickly that way. Rayak uses longer wing strokes, pacing him self to preserve more energy, and seems to give of more a relaxing atmosphere then Envix does when you see her fly.
“Rayak use Dash!” She calls out when a few minutes pass, enough time for him to have hopefully relaxed his legs. ‘I’m not sure how long I will be able to keep this up!’ She hears him say, and winces slightly when she sees him almost trip over a rock when he lands and started to run. ‘Try as far as you can. If you really cant keep up, we’ll take a break. Its only been about twenty minutes now, I think. Do you feel up to trying for another ten minutes at least?’ She says with slight concern in her tone as Rayak is most definitely flagging now, being up in the air didn’t help much with it. ‘I’ll try than I suppose.’ She nods at those words. ‘And that is all I can ask of you.’ Then says quickly before Rayak might start to trip on the ground again. “Fly!” He didn’t so much as jump this time, it looked more like a quick pounce at the air while moving his wings in the pattern needed to catch the air the quickest, then when he did caught it to raise up higher in the air, he starts slowing his strokes to preserve his energy. ‘Good job Rayak!’ She praises him, as she could see getting in the air is getting more difficult for him when his legs get so tired, and flying itself is no joke either. She waits a couple of minutes with calling him back to the ground, waiting just till two minutes before the ten minute mark she agreed on with Rayak.
*3 -Fly, Endurance Rayak LV 283.2, LY 235.2
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Post by Twilight-Claw on May 13, 2019 22:59:46 GMT -6
“Alright Rayak, use run! One last time please!” She says, biting her lip lightly as she watches Rayak stumble for a moment with his landing, but then started to run. ‘Pace yourself Rayak, go slower now, this, yes that is good. Your doing good, keep running but preserve your energy. Yes perfect, just like that -and its over. Stop Rayak! You’ve done great! You can rest now!’ She says in her mind, having run a commentary throughout the whole time he is running in order to distract him from his tiredness. Slowly Rayak came to a stop at her side, panting heavily. He licks his chops as she sees his eyes glaze for only a moment, his wings summoned back inside him. Stroking his head she smiles at him softly. ‘Let me go grab you some water, you can definitely use it.’ She murmurs in a soothing tone, petting him lightly on the head only one more time, then went to grab her bag, opening it at the largest zipper she takes out a pet bowl and a bottle of water. Dropping the bowl close at Rayak’s feet, she then unscrewed the cap, and added the water to the bowl, filling it at the halfway point before stopping. The bottle it self contained only a quarter of the water, and she drank gratefully from the bottle as well. Screwing the cap back on when the bottle is empty and dropping it in the bag. Luckily, she has brought along more bottles then just this one for the occasion.
‘Thank you.’ Rayak says, drinking happily from the water bowl till he felt full, he walked a couple of steps away from the water bowl and laid down, resting his head on top of his paws while closing his eyes. Smiling she walked up to him, sitting down right next to him and stroking him from the head to the back, repeating the motion. ‘That feels good.’ She heard him say while a soft purring could be heard coming from his throat. Grinning, she continued the motion, glad that Rayak didn’t seem to mind it.
*4 -Fly, Endurance Rayak LV 283.3, LY 235.3
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