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Still there’s the terror

"Watch how a pitviper strikes, my son" Father once clutched ame "Watch it coil upward and upward till it reaches its crest Don’t Blade If you do, then it’ll get you It’ll kill you Move just when it’s co down Do that with the terror in life Don’t act till you’re as scared as you’ll get, then …" He snapped his fingers

I’m at that point when the music of the machines takes hold The clicks and the clacks, the hisses and the huins

"Ready over there, Goblin?" I ask Sevro over the com

"Cacatne ursus in silvis?"

Does a bear shit in the woods? The ship spins and shudders More sirens howl

"Latin, now?"

"Audentes fortuna juvat," Sevro chuckles

"Fortune favors the bold? You deserve to die if that’s really going to be the last thing you say in this life"

"Yes? Well, you may suck my--"

My heart sticks its doard beat

The netic strea-forces hit od My vision flickers black Stos constrict Blood slows in hts flicker in h I don’t even see the ship that brought me here I see Eo’s face in the darkness I black out Bodies can’t take this Too fast

Darkness