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Voices rose and fell and overlapped, as if apoint, voices having become chant

"We love you "

"Don't be afraid We need you "

"Stay with us "

"Shorten our time "

I felt their soft sweet soothing touch even as the lurid light terrified me, and the explosions blazed across the sky and the smell of smoke rose in my nostrils

"Me, his profile redom

And there below us, as the mountain was cleft, lay the plains without

end, covered andering and arguing dead, with the weeping and lost, and seeking, and afraid, with those being led and gathered and co as if they could escape, only to find theh the spirit multitudes, in hopeless circles

Fronificent and relentless illu red, fla over the peaks

Howls rose, echoing off the cliffs Souls wailed and sang The Helpful Dead rushed to aid the fallen to their feet, to usher those ould at last coate or cave mouth or pathway

"I curse Him, I curse Hih the valleys

"No justice, not after as done!"

"You cannot tell me"

"soht"