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That's hoas A stor was expected, yet there was no cloud

Yllawould strike from the sky any instant; there would be a thunderclap, a boil of smoke, a silence, footsteps on the path, a rap on the crystalline door, and her running to answer

Crazy Ylla! she scoffed Why think these wild things with your idle mind?

And then it happened

There was a war sound A gleam in the sky, of metal

Ylla cried out

Running through the pillars, she flung wide a door She faced the hills But by this ti

She was about to race down the hill when she stopped herself She was supposed to stay here, go nowhere The doctor was cory if she ran off

She waited in the door, breathing rapidly, her hand out

She strained to see over toward Green Valley, but saw nothing

Silly woht That was nothing but a bird, a leaf, the wind, or a fish in the canal Sit down Rest

She sat down

A shot sounded

Very clearly, sharply, the sound of the evil insect weapon

Her body jerked with it