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Up into the air the human fleard the roof of the cavern

Down he came

The gaiaphage would never even feel the slight weight as it…

…hit with the force of a e of space

Duck hit the gaiaphage and drilled straight through its crystalline mass

And straight through the cave floor beneath it

Into the vortex, like grains of sand in an hourglass, fell the gaiaphage

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KIND OF LIKE the first tiht

At the pool that day Like that Falling and the water rushing doith him

Only this water was more like sand A billion tiny crystals all sucked down the drain that Duck had made in the earth

He could see nothing as he fell The crystals filled his eyes and ears and mouth

He couldn’t breathe, and this panicked hi to outrun the monster that fell with him

No air