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and though she knew despite her vow the significance of the set and how from that remote retreat to make arrangements to keep safe those who were given just a part her own passage seemed pre-ordained across a troubled continent where even sisters can’t be sure
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and the man on the bicycle led her along the city streets to meet someone from whom she wanted that which could not then be given and though she saw the second corpse it only emerged days later dragged out of the dark river from which she knew she had to flee
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and when in the height of passion he called out not her own name but that of her departed sister her own rapture intensified not sensing then that their child would be born many miles away across the sea and the desert under the eye of one greater
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and having secured two carpets her advantage remained obscure when the trans-continental car appeared but only feet find dark locales where hides the captive who can fly to choose the one who will pass on to follow footsteps from the past venturing deep into the sands
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and now accused of treachery she felt herself free to return not to avenge her accuser but another whose treachery was against herself and her sister and having committed the act it was by a double disguise she herself was not sacrificed
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and the singing sands tore across reducing body shells to rust so four feet transported two feet escaping then by charter flight unheeding the coded warning only the biting of ankles allowed their passage to the waves but the dogfight wasn’t over
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and having crossed first the channel to talk in the gentleman’s club she then traversed the atlantic seeking the father of her child before ensuring he married the woman who could harm her most yet held the key to her success and she only then drank deeply
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and after sailing up river the long lost brothers met again antique furniture was destroyed international relations were laid open to the world’s gaze it was time at last to take on the chance for immortality the chance to bury the past and
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