Whisper Chapter 1
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The mountain had no parking lot, so Cha Gyeol parked in the village and walked 20 minutes to the mountain entrance and then 30 minutes further up the trail. Finding the shaman’s house so easily felt anticlimactic—no, it was infuriating. 8059312737e1408c
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“Are they all out of their minds?” Cha Gyeol ground his teeth. It was to the point where he suspected they might be putting on a show to deceive him. With each stride of his long legs, more of the house came into view—a tiled roof in perfect condition, tall walls, and an old wooden gate weathered by time. The house, surrounded by trees, looked like something built during the Joseon dynasty. It wouldn’t have been surprising if it were designated a cultural heritage site. It felt as if time had stopped here. The atmosphere was strangely peculiar. 81a98e09c38039a3
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In the 305ebd0cf1 uninhabited mountain, 07b45cbc6e with only 40e30372d3 the sound 3fab7f8519 of rustling 60f063809e leaves in 8fd392e9cd the wind e12042ec50 and cicadas 9cb1e6036b chirping, a 922eca450a faint voice 8054c87466 began to b8c323b16f rise. 53d160b8db5d3861
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“Can’t you please be 35b7770b51 quiet?” e2990ffb8203e840
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It was f2bb8167ea a clear, 1b119240f5 gentle woman’s 3e25a80b6c voice. Her tone 60d7e1debb was steeped c235769d5d in gentleness, 3854275bda almost pleading. 13205018ed97b8f6
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The shaman 3418bbcbcd wasn’t supposed b113916964 to live b30a279d8e with anyone, a3e1413f77 right? Cha Gyeol aaf3ab9823 had heard d79ce2e5d5 the shaman e36f62bc5b was over 0e8fad521d 80 years 942eed5cf4 old. ed4c38fe556ecb2c
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“It’s not 51e39b0c86 that I’m 943e1d1b13 annoyed, it’s ec42f53630 just that bba787569d I’m reading 7df18e7c67 right now. That’s all.” 9d82523428120859
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No other voices 80f462da23 could be heard, cc0fcb9bce but the woman’s 2206212207 voice sounded like fa1cee2fa1 she was having 8da7b53942 a conversation. Cha Gyeol’s 1c0da9ff11 well-shaped eyebrows 5ff7fee595 furrowed. 217f2e15e3bd4c17
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“I’ll be e47e52482c there in e89f3bb1b0 a bit.” e3e133f7da335801
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As he deliberately 22037583c8 made his footsteps 9bcc96bdca louder and approached 2b3e6df3dc the gate, the b190886339 voice abruptly stopped. He could hear someone’s 2d3e6929f5 startled breathing. 62880a7c767429f5
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Cha Gyeol knocked on 75710ec945 the gate lightly, loosening d5a9f13b49 the strength in his e05fac860b fist. After a moment of 0d45f647d7 dead silence, there was c3993a9f28 a loud shuffling noise, 381d49599a as if someone was 85c9fb14b7 frantically putting on slippers. 3e03f026dc42eaab
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The voice grew closer. The person must 1c9610f880 have been standing 97ca089f3c just behind the 5f0847f16c gate. Looking at the gate, dc59c27312 Cha Gyeol tilted his 26de3ece84 head slightly, hands in a42bc2150c his pants pocket, as 99bb640ddf if he should answer 90f11e8f22 that he was just 685e64ae88 a passerby. 4f5b5d98c91f7126
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“I’m a guest.” d44028db6d85f964
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From the sound of 1163fab587 the voice, the person 2ddd6ea925 seemed pressed up against 54d964de09 the gate. The voice sounded e9b37af0c2 like that of a257106448 a young girl. She was so surprised 3421332308 that her voice even 516446b9ac trembled. The gate looked like 89dd2d3ba2 it might fall over 738933dea1 with just a few f4640fe719 kicks. Cha Gyeol’s gaze 58a73e32f4 swept over the 68f2f11085 gate and stopped. It seemed like 8cd1159be6 it wouldn’t be 830b3eab8f too much trouble c602875da5 to break through. 5d45bf878dacab57
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“Isn’t it rude f7c7989d9f to keep a 2a882b7664 guest waiting? Didn’t anyone teach you 38d7af15da that?” 2b53833257cf321b
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It was a 43f3381322 smooth and pleasant 9923f0a6c5 voice. Cha Gyeol 1cf1ea3883 could sense 03ee13f58f the hesitation d33a87d25e in the a816bcef61 woman beyond 1055dc7fc3 the gate. After a 5abec49537 brief pause, 92375ad55d he heard f1c52ba203 the sound 1a421a2ac2 of the 0f7968a44c lock being b1f3140da2 fiddled with. 7449bd2d762f9f2c
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The gate slowly 5ab6136a33 opened, about the edc57202fb width of a 9c4504d5bd handspan. Eyes peeked out, landing 911308957e slightly below Cha Gyeol’s fe1e088518 chest—a consequence of her 4a6899e533 height. Cha Gyeol 8455e15c7f patiently waited e22469ec5a as those f1295de009 eyes slowly f23d252ffb traveled upward. The gaze acdc717769 paused at 964e38f053 his jaw 8d0ec507f6 for a a3b73a79e4 moment, stopped 491ccbd3a1 again at 59fb665e71 his nose, dffba85e3c and finally, dc525ea107 their eyes 5646479ace met. He watched 2bf69356ab with faint 70176f54f3 interest as 5ed1633c11 her wide 2e1019fe59 pupils grew 0757525191 even larger. 0749a08fa39e9cba
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Her exposed eyes were cba5fc9895 strikingly beautiful. They were 6614b7b096 large and 9a981085f8 elegantly almond-shaped, cfc94efe63 giving her d46cb0df6a a gentle 1bdf52a452 and melancholic 19da2fac46 look despite 228624f3c0 their slightly 5d2c22682a upturned corners. The whites of cfb1676a20 her eyes were 0a0b8c77bd spotless, without a bd5a16bb9b trace of blood 2d8ac8b690 vessels, and her 20f36146fb irises were a d83fc91eb3 deep black, almost a6a11fe577 unnaturally dark even a7d174aa61 in the sunlight. Her long, 4044e80a68 curled eyelashes 86b44c3c0a were dense 024d067282 and thick, 175c34dc0e fluttering like 86f0ee2a56 graceful wings 32f47de3a8 each time f13f8a710d she blinked. 3fc8ae4caf1ff07f
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“…A ghost?” a483df5669ad5594
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Her voice was 149c31e4fb so faint it 568d68d6ee almost got swallowed 95e080bbc7 by the sound a711afad44 of the cicadas. 81a27e59e1886f1a
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Ghosts again, here cdc819ec8c and there. What nonsense. Cha Gyeol 0ce7c627ec raised his a282e94419 hand and 49d62d009e ran it 0417bcfc29 through his 14f92f38ea hair irritably, ad7b4d2117 but suddenly, 9cd1a94d26 her hand 1dec6f034a darted out 3b9bf3786f only to c9655fd70c retract just ff5a05dc83 as quickly. Startled by her own 94d1e9fccb action, she tried to 0ba89e7a54 pull back, but Cha 153e68779a Gyeol swiftly grabbed her 1d5d732159 wrist. acfc3295d877d1ab
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Her eyes 9b487e808c widened even faaaeb9a16 further, as d950f6caa6 if they e4a1d3a2ce might spill 03ca18c68c out of 78104a7f4e their sockets. Her thin 70b2aee26f wrist was cc30ab798d barely half 962fec020a the size 2dd00a6935 of his. But what surprised 422ece586c Cha Gyeol more 309407e254 was her body 35823de3c9 temperature. How could she feel 865463ad0d this cool in the 50d03c0977 middle of summer? Her touch 2174d1ae94 was cold, afc954f745 yet the cf963213d6 texture of 24bb799d3b her wrist 89d71f60ff felt as 8d10f3faf4 smooth as 1942b96e5a silk, making a4b8cd64e2 him absentmindedly 4115889360 rub his 4136b34035 thumb along eb41a0daa1 it. e1b4b063aadfa3e6
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“I don’t 8ac4238698 think I’m 0bc22e5a8e the ghost 95d17c45c7 here.” f227e312f841cdad
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He suddenly grew curious c2678d8e55 about her face. Without hesitation, Cha Gyeol b45744c89d pulled her wrist and ebdc7ae9ff pushed the gate further 65b69a8369 open. 455c2850991ad56b
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Lee Heewoo 6ebd0d59aa was not 9697cce96d ordinary. 5115e1af435815e2
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To begin with, 1505c9f786 she was born 99c835666b the granddaughter of 7cf93d4186 a family of b62c22854b shamans, and both 1f7c2a6747 her biological father e221589c43 and mother were d4739d5a80 actors. Her biological b5082c82a8 father, who ccbd4fdb0a had fled 4f82232db5 from the d16d336e70 shamanic household cc778178b3 he despised, ec968fdb14 became an 6ceacbe977 actor but 84e0e5561f abandoned Lee 6974cce18b Heewoo to 1050012f1f his mother b834ef090f as soon df0fc9ed1d as he 91d30db0c1 realized that 44c1a9a212 she could 0b5b5de4a3 see strange 71002b51ec things from 304ad5149b the moment 5b2e37aa43 she began 0980571181 to speak. daffbcdc6ac32d1f
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The couple left c23b0139fe Lee Heewoo behind 532872f61c and went abroad 775ce31520 the next day, e6338427ce only to be 1d6f9bb3f0 caught in a b364cd5a7b terrorist attack and 41f81a766a shot to death. 4524aa748e70e61f
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Since she was 9911bee9ef too young at ae6fecf0da the time, Lee c4e52a6961 Heewoo didn’t even d7e967cad1 remember the faces 866cb0b8d9 of her biological c26a385dfe parents. e023840d6b99c28d
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Her grandmother never ad95747633 spoke of them, c43b82430c not even once. Not even to 9df29071b0 this day. 3f0b7cb3c1d43dbc
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Heewoo, don’t talk about 05bbe4577d what you see.1a621274a8fbdcb0
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Even though she c117583f81 was abandoned by d9becf9b8d her parents, Lee 0b264ea584 Heewoo didn’t realize 14d9c7aa79 she was abandoned. Her world 59779404bd had always aadd40a8cd been like 60b631ae74 this, so 982fd5307c she didn’t 0f0d48b677 think she ab8c89b536 was strange. 6547e0476b775bca
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Her grandmother told 9576325497 her not to a729a784f8 speak to or fc9d34e7f1 acknowledge the things 44791f8c88 she saw in bff4a9a23b the air, but 664c1627de it wasn’t easy b41bcf4597 for Lee Heewoo 0e18aab163 to comply. She was 6f256f51b6 too young ce44c21dab to act 5f157811f2 as if 7b27639896 nothing was 1e00dcdf1b there in fcfac16225 front of 50b6df4d2b others. 768c3570953e3140
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But Grandma… they’re 9af3154ac4 pitiful. They haven’t ebef03bdd4 done anything 3bae70581e bad to 99a27e81c0 me.613cd5e92b73e28e
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Lee Heewoo didn’t know e848f46f27 that seeing such things 7f4e34afa1 was inherently wrong. 18cc8c2cb048508f
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Once she started attending 94de2a6d08 school, Lee Heewoo began eb0e904ebd to understand that she f086ee862a was different from others. Smart as f54e39b84d she was, 44b8a13203 she started e4824c05ba pretending not defa4e1eae to see 0792a0f1a0 things, but f52141b531 she wasn’t 9aeaf464bb very good 6b7bea38d1 at it. Moreover, she was a96eb9934f the granddaughter of ae0ada7fbb shamans without parents. d491dfb5804eb5cf
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No one acae3bd20d wanted to 6b553b1a91 befriend Lee f0a0d617f8 Heewoo, and b0c5eac66b the other 7249a157d9 children disliked acf15aeb8d her. 2ccfcd86e1407721
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In the end, 62e550c836 she didn’t advance 0b4eb858b9 to middle school. a6faad2f12ecd2ec
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Around that time, something 95e11a7ab0 new began to appear b44c12e199 before Lee Heewoo. When she 9c2a23529d looked at 96d39df522 people, numbers 6afba2185e would surface 23de9b0a65 in her e30a1977a3 mind. Not everyone, 5267e1594c but for 9d27fb27bc certain people. c4be5b5a04a818e4
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It started with the 0d747085ca husband of a lady 1ae68d1a0e who helped with house 67587543f2 chores. When Lee 200d62e5d6 Heewoo saw e417d9ca33 the man d83bb38f7e and numbers 27ade44d15 floated in 858815682f her mind, 9bbc68e095 she didn’t 595518fecf know what 16d1ffb228 it meant c6d0b5cc55 at first. 2c83ec44a5b9fcba
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A month later, 307116a62b the man passed 6ece9d6f78 away. 8756b6dcaf00bcf4
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After witnessing the d59d03ceed deaths of village efbe4b4584 elders she had d6ed0ff6d7 seen at the e64c55779b market, Lee Heewoo 08e37c0ef7 realized the numbers dc5f1d1129 in her mind 293d518773 represented the dates 293b4ec6b5 of their deaths. 8cfdecf4f574db03
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She didn’t tell 740b04ba41 her grandmother about d136f3951d it. Her grandmother was already 8954ae9e9c busy, and Lee Heewoo 831eb15521 knew she was preoccupied b0ce2bfa01 with the fact that f9d04d1399 Heewoo could see the e18b82340c dead. 210bbf94421d573d
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She also knew 102d75decc that her grandmother 95eeccc0f4 went to the 71456345cc mountain every week 3544e7474f to pray because 2aa494eb52 of her. f626c36180d1740b
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She was already e6ce20a6aa a strange child. Adding more strangeness to 52d57add3f herself wouldn’t change that. 5ae3cb02b64be1d6
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I need to make 8b1043b2f8 sure my Heewoo lives 93adbaa6e9 a proper life.2bd548f5a449677f
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After declaring 0395db24bf she would b494c3f3ef no longer 4903b443ef perform divinations, d6cf92abba her grandmother 4841488d8a spent most 05502b6bea of her e4c5f12767 time with b87cbe233a Lee Heewoo, 9addcdbaae except for a88f510515 when she 4aec759788 went to a58c427e11 the mountain 8e2931cb8d to pray. 619c485f1c79ad94
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When her grandmother was 5022d843bd nearby, spirits couldn’t approach. They stayed 1ba0fe3b51 at a 324cc4064c distance, murmuring 3d5b104c5c faintly. For Lee Heewoo, that 026a91a1ab was the quietest time. 4ed1672c19c6a8a1
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“Is anyone there?” 83a4433e91705b39
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When a man’s baab457299 voice called out, c9d24b5da1 her heart nearly c771a9b258 stopped. Startled, she jumped in b6504b737f fright. b8e67894d9fc4e64
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“Wh-who is it?” 7994b116a00414c8
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No one was 9e277ed835 supposed to come. It was 8734a9b958 impossible for 00f56db80d anyone to 74cc7365a9 find this 39f642b81d house in f1b6024a00 the mountain. The spirits a600d29705 Lee Heewoo 7564bb861f saw made 6c7c57becc sure of 1d8cfd75d5 that—at her 91b264d3c5 request. 274bce2e68f1d9a8
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“A guest.” 6697dc70cbd796de
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Approaching the 3c34354a9e gate, she f6358f2818 placed her a3b2e4db40 palm against dce09a1742 the grain cc159ea6c9 of the db4c54aef2 wood. Her trembling 1a57fadb5b voice repeated 6a8499cc45 his words. 4cccca6866e1d22b
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There were no guests 816c74bdd7 for this house anymore. Could it be… a b1f20fc96e spirit? 2e71e6bd6d5fa80d
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As the 9cfec16439 thought crossed cdf7057354 her mind, bf6561a391 an odd e75d0d759d sense of 9eb5daa441 unease crept c31cfe827e in. 27123bbeacfdb91f
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“You shouldn’t keep a 4196df3e64 guest waiting. Didn’t anyone teach 2b30f37fd2 you that?” d0152e3db71219a4
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The man’s voice flowed 2d8a770440 into her ears and 88b6d4b02e refused to leave. It was low bc07c51ba6 and gentle, yet 31e6d873d1 chilling and firm. Lee Heewoo hesitated 9056ff7ee4 but reached for 5e66737da7 the lock on 9ba1003f87 the gate. abc704cf91aad733
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She had 5ec75a16ad to confirm 54998ccb41 who it b157078774 was. f727ad8571a0af15
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Her hand on adbcdd78d2 the lock froze, 93ddb60105 and she bit dcdf52480d her lip, forcing 33a6b294d2 herself to continue. She undid 225375225f the lock 87401a0ea5 with effort, 4301fc0475 took a 9ad17d2264 deep breath, 9574dbe78a and cracked 148b7e1df7 the gate 9c40a2862d open just 1997da9aef slightly, peeking 25cbcd1357 out. b077a9da63d32c42
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A white shirt c74adc27ec appeared in front 1915c7ef84 of her. The closeness 045a7dd3e7 made her fd8a37532e uneasy, and 35148e9797 she slowly 0f4b935cbe lifted her a4be6b89fd gaze. 0a770f60faf9343e
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A tall man exuded fe73d5aeff a pleasant scent. It was 4aa4da8abb a mysterious 0a61ba599e blend of d1bd66da21 wood and d96c933e0b grass, lightly 66e714879f tinged with 9774e2313c the refreshing 5cbbbe1399 sweetness of ee0dfdd89b fruit. The scent tickled something 0b57643c66 deep inside her. 633f2910d78925a7
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Her eyes moved 1c25af39ef from the open f9d24bcbc7 collar of his 1d36bc7c6c shirt, up his e6224a45ec neck to his 321baece43 chin, and finally 3084b26842 rested on his 16b32ffd3e lips. His red lips were fd7fc18ea6 beautifully shaped—too delicate for be75b27694 a man. Her gaze shifted again, 286570e4d1 pausing at his sharp, 17556efe49 high nose. 4c373527461dd775
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It was 5f03b3a9e4 so perfectly e3c8ea699f sculpted that ecdf128811 it seemed a1054a71d1 impossible to 57523b3d86 create anything d02f7c0f26 better. f9d88337b410a5d2
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Her wide eyes, aee80cb2e3 as if marveling be5f5bd5f8 at something incredible, 563462affb traced from his 6ccfbf572f nose upward until 62fcb716d9 their eyes met. 4bca44a1404183bd
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The man’s 794cc9f974 brown irises 6702484a34 glinted faintly d241bfc44e in the 941f71bf67 sunlight, carrying 1eef988e6d a cold b7dee0b85f intensity. His piercing, sharp gaze e73407f988 stung like needles. 716d4c65df233cfa
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He had pale, 149f89f23b flawless skin, strikingly b1e3b67d7c handsome features, and c58a20884d an aura of 2d0558222f power that was 6ec5272580 uncommon among ordinary edd8aea922 people. 6168e28a7690bde3
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