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Stay alive Stay alive All of you, stay alive

Mustang departs,it for kiloenerators I watch her go and flounder for so to hold on to, someone to pray to My father is withof athers the probe he sent above and tellsin the ht for each other," I say over the com to those at ravBoots and soar through the water, bursting through the surface of the river like inkyas we fly up over the riverbank, muddy from rain that fell before the shields were raised to protect the city Beneath us, a single unarirl stands, ankle deep in the mud I stare at her fro with her fa

When she sees us, she snatches fro slashes the sky Her best dress gathersan even deeper brown

"Shoot her!" Sevro snarls

I knock his hand aside A tree explodes instead And as I look high above where, on the wall, far out of range of the probe Sevro sent up, and far beyond the lihts and their Obsidian retinue Waiting

The girl presses a button on the globe

And that’s e begin to die

PART IV

RUIN

Rise so high, in mud you lie

--Karnus au Bellona

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Mud