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 Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:03 pm
A resting area for caravans and travelers that resides a few hundred yards from Kirigakure. Currently it is occupied by the Otomaku traveling caravan. 4caravans, 20+guards and some 30 extra bodies...though what for, is unknown by outsiders.
Two caravans, completely covered, are guarded at all times.
Setup around the area is similar to a military strong hold. Large pieces of earth have been shoveled up in a manner similar to a defensive wall with many of the trees that used to surround the area torn down. The torn down trees are scattered about in random sections, some close to the caravans and others lined up across the road to force anyone approaching to walk rather then ride.
(mission oriented area: more details to come)
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:45 pm
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Kirigakure | Chuunin | Medical Ninja | Bukijutsu Class | Hojo Clan The Live Life, One Must Accept the Principal's of Death...
And The Path You Will Take to Live Life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Flou walked down the path with Virgil on his tail, as they began to approach the last known area, Flou began to take extra precaution's, looking back to Virgil he spoke "We are almost there, ready yourself for anything." Flou and Virgil were off on a mission for their village, for Sypher, for Kirigakure, and he would make sure that it would go well. He had a long streak of failures, but with his last missions success, he decided to ride the wave of success all the way to his future. This would be easy.
CcP :: [ 445c ] - [ 0 ] = [ 445c ]
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:55 am
 "s'at them?" "Shh!" Small shapes dodged away from the main caravan group, sprinting close to the ground towards one of the larger trees. The shapes, moving at a regular speed that indicated they weren't shinobi, vanished behind the trees. The two children breathed into their hands to muffle the sounds of their panting until one peeked over the edge of the tree, her small hands gripping the bark as she eyed the approaching men. The rest of the members of the caravan were preoccupied, their minds on the auction currently going on by the sounds coming from the main area. It had been easy for the two to sneak out but it would mean a rough start for the two men if they were who the girl thought they were. She narrowed her eyes then ducked back down, speaking sharply to her smaller comrade before standing straight up and stalking out from behind the tree. She planted herself in front of the tree, feet spread determinedly, and glared at both men, clearly waiting for them to approach her. Rather then blonde, Bai's hair was more strawberry in nature, close to a creamy blonde if anything. Her eyes were stormy grey now, changing color with her mood, and she was slender. Her thigh bore a thick scar that, from a distance, looked like nothing but a squiggled mess. Coming closer would reveal it was a slave brand, an 'O' with an 's' inside it and a tiger's jaws surrounding the whole thing. A nasty blemish on otherwise smooth skin. She wouldn't speak till they got close and even then....she'd been told to wait for the proper response before doing anything else.
((OoC: I've updated the first post with some general information. :3 ))
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:41 am
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Kirigakure | Chuunin | Medical Ninja | Bukijutsu Class | Hojo Clan The Live Life, One Must Accept the Principal's of Death...
And The Path You Will Take to Live Life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Flou felt something in the air, his brows raised slightly as he felt the two aura's in the air... Thank you Shigure Soen. He heard a small rustle and saw a girl with creamy blonde hair and grey eyes, a rather small girl, a child almost. Something about her made Flou feel uneasy, her aura was solid, like a wall; firm, strong and good willed from the intentions she was showing now. But there was something else deeper. Is she one of Sypher's acquaintances? Flou looked to Virgil and then walked towards Bai and did not put his hand near his weapon. When he got about five meters from the girl, he lowered his head and pointed to his left shoulder "its on the left shoulder in the mouth of the dragon.." That was the phrase that Sypher told him and it was embedded in his mind, and now was finally released. He raised his head looking to Virgil once more, wondering he would ever wake up or at least speak. He looked at Bai again and spoke with no smile but an oasis of determination swirling in his blue eyes. "We are here to help you.." Flou's eye's were on Bai, but his mind was on Aki... She said she was coming and she was no where to be seen yet, did Sypher keep her from coming? Was she late?
CcP :: [ 445c ] - [ 0 ] = [ 445c ]
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:37 pm
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In response to Flou's warning, Virgil gave a small nod. His entire body was relaxed, contrary to how one would think a Genin would be acting on his first real mission. Careful training had ensured that Virgil would not so much as flicker in his calculated calm. Just then, probably at the same time as Flou, Virgil heard a rustle. Instinctively, his hand went to his kodachi, drawing the small sword. A little ways away was a girl, but Virgil did not sheath his sword, nor did he look immediately poised for attack. As Flou approached the girl, Virgil followed, his expression almost glazed. To an outsider, Virgil might look like he was under the influence of some sort of drug or something. But someone who knew Virgil could tell that when he normally would have been anxious, he forced himself to be almost eerily not. The girl did not seem unassuming, but Virgil would still rather not let his guard down. Flou seemed distracted now, Virgil did not know by what be he decided to speak, "How did you manage to escape?" He inquired while briefly eyeing the slave brand. "If you were previously incarcerated." He looked around her, glancing towards a second figure he thought he heard--two sets of footsteps as the rustling he heard were very distinct, however any more would be a bit more difficult to place.
((OOC: Blergh. SAT studying, sorry for the late reply))
╚══════════════╝ [ Chakra: 220 ]
[ Techniques Used: None ]
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:32 am
Bai's eyes narrowed as the older of the two approached her and she stiffened visibly. Her arms went rigid at her sides as she glared up at him. Even when he pointed to his shoulder and indicated where Sypher's brand was, she remained rigid and silent, her eyes darting to the other boy as he came near. She saw his eyes on her brand and she reached to cover it, her face going red briefly "..." she looked back at Flou "...all right." her body relaxed a fraction and she crossed her arms over her chest, leaning back against the tree. There was a scrabbling sound and small hands appeared on the other side, followed by a head of black/green hair. The boy was small, impossibly so for his age, but he managed to drag himself up to sit on the tree next to where Bai leaned "So it is them?" he asked, his voice high but very somber, deep for such a tiny body and such a young age. He scooted over to Bai and hooked his arms around her neck as she scooped him up, holding him on her hip "Mmmm. This is Sheng. And I'm Bai." she introduced herself and bowed slightly, Sheng holding tighter to her as she dipped "We didn't escape." she replied to Virgil's question, her eyes going sharp as she spoke to him "Sheng and I were bought the other day. Hotaka has a rule that slaves are required to remain with the caravan for 2days to allow the buyers to gather the money necessary to purchase. That way he can get replacements, ensure that he gets his money and 'prep' us for travel. During that time, the slaves are free, as a sorts, to move about the caravan on their own. And if you think 'why not just run away?'...how far would we get? Certainly not close enough to a village. And running away means death." she looked at Flou again, her grip on Sheng tightening as he let his head rest on her shoulder "Why isn't Sypher here?" Sheng asked quietly, his eyes on Virgil's weapon warily. Neither of them had heard from Sypher since the last letter saying he was coming to get them. And then that note, snuck to them, that said to expect two shinobi...Sypher was secretive, they knew, but this...this was on a whole different level. Bai shifted her grip on Sheng and he slid out of her grasp, landing on his feet and holding tightly to her leg as her hands slipped into her jacket.
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:34 am
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Kirigakure | Chuunin | Medical Ninja | Bukijutsu Class | Hojo Clan To Live Life, One Must Accept the Principal's of Death...
And The Path You Will Take to Live Life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Flou stared at Bai and as she leaned and a small figure came out of the bushes, Flou was not surprised, but flabbergasted, mortified almost. Such a young boy! A slave? There was no doubt that Flou had been pampered in his years in Kirigakure, living with nobles who rather have him be an actor then a shinobi and a past life in Tea Country that was blank for him. The thought of this boy doing all the possible jobs a slave would do made Flou's eyes slim, he looked away with a swift turn of his head. No doubt Aki wasn't lying... Hotaka was a new breed of evil that Flou had never faced. Luckily he had Virgil there to speak while Flou was trying to re-coop.
As Bai explained their situation, Flou's eyes slowly went back on her and Sheng. Sheng was so innocent, and Bai was so, hardened. Was Aki like this long ago when she was young? Was she like Sheng? Did she change into what Bai is now then evolved into the being she is today? Bai's question smacked him back into the conversation. He looked at Bai when she looked at him and he spoke with his hands to his side. "Sypher is the Mizukage at this time... He had duties to take care of, a mysterious man in the hospital and also an issue with one of my friends came up... Trust me when I say it hurt him when he couldn't come." As he looked at Sheng again, his eye's almost burned, why was this boy here... He was born in this world just like Flou, why was he not raised by nobles! Why wasn't Flou the slave..? Flou's old self howled in himself wanting to help with all of his power, while deeper inside Flou an new personality was blooming, a darker one. It took no action to the situation, but it's silent breaths made Flou anxious and easily effected by his surrounding.
Flou brought his hand up to his face and shut the two sound out of his head and looked at Bai and Sheng "Any inside notes of the Caravan? Hotaka? Where's he located in the ground's?" Flou wanted info before he went into the caravan with his blade raised. His hand laid beside his sword and his other hidden in his sleeve.
CcP :: [ 445c ] - [ 0 ] = [ 445c ]
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:21 pm
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Despite the appearance of the small boy, Virgil did not loosen the grip on his blade. The girl, Bai, briefly explained their situation in reply to Virgil's question. It was an answer that was still unsatisfying--it didn't sit well in Virgil's stomach that a slaver would give such a long leash for slaves. Not because they would run away, but because of exactly what these two were doing now: convening with an outside source. But Virgil did not say anything. Flou replied to the young boy, Sheng,'s question about Sypher, and then proceeded to inquire into some details of the caravan. Like Flou, Virgil would rather not rush into the caravan blindly. "What sort of numbers are there?" Virgil added after Flou's questions. He paused, considered his wording, and asked again, "About how many slavers are there in the caravan and what sort of weapons or equipment do they have?" His question was a lot more specific than Flou's, and he was not entirely sure that the two would be able to answer, but nonetheless he asked.
╚══════════════╝ [ Chakra: 220 ]
[ Techniques Used: None ]
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:48 pm
((OoC: I won't be using the pictures anymore smile I figure you guys get what they look like.))
Bai seemed mystified by the word 'Mizukage' but took it to mean Sypher was unable to come. Sheng, on the other hand, was now staring at Flou who had turned his face away a moment ago. The small boy still held to Bai's leg but one hand was rubbing his stomach, itching at the brand placed squarely in between the ribs. It took up almost all of the skin and was a dragon in place of a tiger, identical to Bai's except for that detail. It was, in every detail, identical to the brand Sypher had on his left shoulder..."Course it hurt him...Sypher's been planning this since before he was sold off by Hotaka. He wants this more then either of us." Bai replied, one shoulder shrugging lightly "Once your a branded slave....you're always a branded slave. Even if Sypher's a....a Mizukage, he's still property of that couple who bought him when he was little. Even if the man is dead, the woman is still out there and she owns him. Owns everything that is him. Just like mine will always own me, even if I'm not gonna get taken. Buying is buying. Sypher said there ain't no refund on a human life and that is that." her words were hard and cold, identical to the personality that went with it. Hotaka was the second slave trader for her and so she'd lost much hope of ever being 'free' in the way that Sypher hoped. Sheng looked up at Bai for a second then seemed to get sleepy, his head leaning into her leg and his eyes closing "Caravan's. There's 4 but they don't really matter 'sept for two. Hotaka's got one he travels in but right now its empty. The other one is for luggage and tents, like the ones he's set up. He's in the one at the far end, running his 'business' from there. The other two are the slave holds. Right now its got about 12slaves per caravan so that's 24. Well....22 cause of us." As Virgil posed his questions, Bai noticed Sheng's sleepy behavior and scooped him up again, wincing a bit as she did. She didn't show it but her back was a mass of black and blue bruises along with several deep cuts from a nine-tails. Recent abuse. Sheng was careful to hold only to her neck as she held him, his knees bent so his feet wouldn't touch her back "There's only one person in charge of slaves and that's Hotaka. He's enough...but there's 23guards right now cause some got hired out for better jobs. Then there's the others...the set uppers and the helpers. The ones who just tag along to get paid for maintenance. They aren't any trouble. Its cause of them we got to come out here...couple of them who work the cages are keeping the slave count at 24 so no one knows we're out here. The guards are just for Hotaka and the Auction goers. No one cares about slaves...guards have swords, two each usually, long knives and some of 'em have nine-tails." she summed up then looked at the sky, squinting "Auction ends in about...2hours. We can take you in while the buyers are leaving cause no one ever pays attention then. Its after the buyers are gone we might have trouble. If Hotaka does his personal check and sees we're missing, we're all in trouble." "All in trouble..." Sheng mumbled, starting to drift into sleep. He'd been paraded and checked by seven different buyers today and forced to stand upright for hours as a biding war had been fought over him. It was exhausting.
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:26 am
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Kirigakure | Chuunin | Medical Ninja | Bukijutsu Class | Hojo Clan To Live Life, One Must Accept the Principal's of Death...
And The Path You Will Take to Live Life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Flou listened to Bai as she spoke about being a slave and what it was meant. The news that Sypher was a slave was new, but it was a thought that was in the back of Flou's head, the phrase was the location of the marking, same as how Bai's was on her leg. This was a hit to Flou, and when she mentioned how the lady who owned him was still alive, which in context meant he was still owned and had to listen. What if he kills her. The dark voice in the back of Flou's head rang for the first time, his voice deep and empty like someone was speaking through a large empty shell. Flou flinched at the sound and then ignored it and took a deep breath as Bai told them the info they needed for the mission.
Flou listened carefully and nodded, so they had to wait, Flou had no problem with this he needed some time to calm down. When he heard the sleepy voice of Sheng, he was hit again and had to ask "How old is he?" Flou asked Bai, he saw the boy was falling asleep and didn't want to ask him directly. He then looked over at Virgil and spoke "We need to find a way to execute this mission, do we go straight for Hotaka stealthily, leaving the rest? Or do we go in and try to stop all operations. Obviously Hotaka will run if we do option two, so we'll have to blend both plans... I am not leaving these, these people. Every person will come out unharmed, the same they used to be." Flou was getting emotion in his words, he wanted all the people in those two caravans to come to Kirigakure, to live a life without ownership, a life with freedom, whether they had gotten it through society or themselves.
Flou, still had one large problem, long ago when he fought the man he'd killed long ago, Kafu Ton, he put his enemy before himself, not wanting to kill him, then with the intervention with Inka and Setsuna, Flou wanted to sacrifice himself to the sake of other's. Now Flou knew he couldn't let himself die to an enemy or to what was happening around him. What Flou was forgetting was letting him kill himself. Deep inside the voice that spoke was beginning to stretch and ready for something, something big.
CcP :: [ 445c ] - [ 0 ] = [ 445c ]
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 3:42 pm
Bai started to rock back on forth on her heels, lulling Sheng to sleep as she eyed Flou. It was obvious she didn't think either of them capable of taking on Hotaka though what reasons she had, she kept to herself. She shook her head slightly and her hair fluttered around her face "Sheng will be 10yrs old this month. He was born prematurely...a complicated pregnancy." Complicated was an understatement. Sheng's mother had been a slave who, knowing her child would be sold away from her, had tried to run away. She had made it about 10miles out of the caravan when the gaurds caught her, beat her, cut Sheng out of her and buried her alive. They'd deposited the sickly Sheng into Sypher's arms and he in turn had gone to Bai who had helped him save the baby. She'd been raising Sheng since Sypher had been sold off and considered him as close to her as a child she might have someday...if she didn't die "Hotaka isn't going to run...he doesn't run." she cut in, walking closer to the boys finally. The fact that Flou was willing to rescue everyone was nice but might be a failed attempt "He'll fight you no matter what. You can go in blazing and he'll come out to meet you. You can sneak in and he'll fight you. Either way, it will be you against him. Don't let him win though...otherwise, the guards will be after you." Sheng's eyes popped open and he yawned, his mouth large for such a small body and full of...sharp teeth. Not human sharp...sharpened to points sharp. It was like looking in the mouth of a small kitten with razor sharp canines that clicked as he shut his mouth. He made a little humming sound for a second then wiggled out of Bai's arms to the ground. And promptly attached himself to Flou's pant leg, hands gripping the cloth as he stared up at Bai who arched an eyebrow "And you don't have to worry about the others...most of them will know whats going on and take measures to get away themselves."
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 7:45 pm
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As the Bai spoke, Virgil simply stood by and said nothing. Once she finished, he coughed once. He was uneasy, though his face wouldn't show it. Then, Flou spoke and Virgil folded his arms. Both plans seemed equally useful, however... Virgil opened his mouth to speak, and Bai spoke again, explaining that no matter what Hotaka wouldn't run. "It would be easiest to take a stealthy approach." Virgil replied simply. "The Mizukage wants Hotaka alive, correct? It'd be easier to keep him alive if we stealthily apprehended him rather than have a brawl where he could easily get caught in crossfire, even if we do not kill him by our own blade." After saying this, Virgil simply glanced down at the boy now clinging onto Flou's pant leg--he seemed awfully immature for ten years old... Possibly the result of this horrific lifestyle, Virgil mused darkly before once more turning to hear Flou's response.
╚══════════════╝ [ Chakra: 220 ]
[ Techniques Used: None ]
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 10:20 am
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Kirigakure | Chuunin | Medical Ninja | Bukijutsu Class | Hojo Clan To Live Life, One Must Accept the Principal's of Death...
And The Path You Will Take to Live Life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
As Flou heard the age of the boy, his eye's slimmed and he felt remorse in his soul and gave a heavy sigh. "He doesn't need a life like this... nor do you." Flou muttered, then looked at Virgil as he directed the battle plan to him, but as Virgil was about to speak, Bai gave them the info that Hotaka was not the type to run, he would fight if they ran in guns a blazing or snuck in and tried to capture him. Flou thought about it and took the two options in his head, and was then directed to Virgil as he spoke up on how he thought it should be done. Flou agreed completely, the less people that got involved in the fight, the better the chance Flou and Virgil had at receiving less wounds. They were shinobi, they spilled their own blood for the sake of others. "Very well then... We..." He paused as Sheng yawned showing a new form of dental work, why did the boy have filed teeth... Think the worst possibility Flou... The voice echoed again and Flou didn't flinch as the boy ran to his side and attached to his leg, he looked down at him and then slowly and hesitantly, put his hand on the top of his head, like he was patting him. Bai spoke as Flou looked at Sheng and slowly petted the boy's head, hopping to show some comfort for him, a little bit of what was to come when he came back to Kirigakure. "If you say so..." Flou looked up at Bai for one last thing "One last question before we go in, where are you two going when this is happening. Sypher cares for both of you deeply, I don't want either of you to get hurt anymore then you already have. I think Virgil feel's the same." He looked back at Virgil and then in the direction of the Caravan's.
CcP :: [ 445c ] - [ 0 ] = [ 445c ]
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 3:52 pm
 Talk of killing Hotaka didn't seem to phase Bai but she gave them an uneasy look, not sure how to bring up the huge complication that would cause. But they both seemed willing to try and bring Hotaka in alive so she kept her silence "...life isn't about what you need. Its about what you get and making it work." she replied shortly, watching Sheng closely. He was still holding tightly to Flou's pants and staring at Bai. His hair fluffed down in front of his eyes when Flou touched his head and he squinted, his nose crinkling up "Well..." Bai stopped and tilted her head, listening for a moment. The general hum that had come from the caravan for the past few minutes was lightening and she turned, seeing some caravans leave. Private caravans which meant "The Auctions over...someone must have made a swoop purchase." Bai said carefully then turned to Flou as he asked where she and Sheng would be, arching an eyebrow "After we show you to Hotaka, he's going to know it was us. He'll send guards after us...were exactly do you think we can be safe if not with you?" she turned on her heel sharply and started walking towards the center, going around the tree. She started to turn, her eyes on the boys "And I'm sure that you'll pr-" the words passed her lips even as a sharpened wire, slender and near invisible, slipped out in a noose as it passed over her head. Bai didn't even realize what had happened as the guard, rising from his hiding place behind the tree she was passing, scissored the wire and sliced through her neck, sending her head toppling from her shoulders. Her body remained upright and turned towards them for a few moments before it collapsed to the ground, crumpling like a puppet. The guard turned towards Flou and Virgil, his face masked from the nose down but his eyes crinkled in a smile "Hand over the child." the voice was heavily accented, clearly from a different country, and he began to wrap the wire around steel gloved hands. Bai's blood soaked the ground in a spreading pool, the eyes in her severed head glazed and mirroring the blood. Sheng's chest heaved several times as he stared at Bai's head and then he was screaming, the noise a high pitched howl.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:59 am
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Protect us. Her words finished in Virgil's mind as the wire slipped around her throat. It all happened to fast for him to react--one minute she was talking, planning, and then that guard. When her head rolled on the ground, Virgil felt like he was going to vomit: it was worse than anything he had seen, had imagined. But he didn't, rather he drew his kodachi--resting his hand on the katana just in case--and faced the opponent. The boy, Sheng, was screaming. It was an excruciating noise, and not just because of the pitch. Because of what it implied, because of why he was screaming. Being calm was easy when the situation wasn't this hectic. But regardless, regardless of how sick Virgil felt, his face did not change. He took three, spread out and unnoticeable, deep breaths. "Flou." Virgil only said the name of the other. He did not acknowledge what the guard had said--that monster didn't deserve Virgil's acknowledgement. Rather, he said this one word so that he could check in, make sure that their plan had changed. Though he did not explicitly inquire this, he hoped that the other would be able to read in enough to tell.
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[ Techniques Used: None ]
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