Canto III: Cave Canem

It had been a week since Fetail had arrived at the village and 6 days since she begrudgingly accepted to watch over Hadrinyan without forging any documents, lest her sisters be let loose. Fetail was drinking coffee with Miss Almudena at Olivia’s house, and the mail-woman bombarded Fetail with questions about her relationship with Olivia and Hadrinyan. Fetail could feel a headache brewing inside her head: She did not want this, but Olivia knew her real identity, so she had to put up with it. Where had Olivia gone, and why had she saddled her with dealing with this passionately annoying woman?

The answer was that it was morning, and a very cloudy morning: Olivia had gone outside to do something very particular, while everyone else looked at the sky. It looked like the coming storms would be mighty indeed, so the villagers made preparations. However, Olivia had more important things in mind, which was why she marched towards a hill located on the right side of Carcabuey, with a radio and her umbrella under her arm. It was there where an ancient castle was located, with a street heading out of the village and up to the castle’s entrance. The castle was large and strong, and even housed a chapel inside. Olivia stopped a moment to gaze at the castle and walked on, following the chain link fence until she reached a small open gate which led to a grassy area very near the castle walls.

The girl looked around to see if there were any wild animals she had to drive away with the revolver hidden in her overalls. Since there were none, she stepped into the grassy area and sat down on a rock, proceeding to turn on her radio, which spoke about a strange Magical Girl with a hate for aircraft carriers and her magic-loving Galician friend. Apparently, they had been spotted by a security camera, but the hotel granted them protection, so they could not leave the hotel lest they be detained.

‘’We’ll never get anywhere at this rate.’’ She sighed in disappointment at the stupid news she had just heard, and proceeded to pick up a few stones from her surroundings. ‘’I will do my best, bit by bit, step by step. World peace and worldwide Magical Girl righteousness can’t be achieved easily. Even if it’s difficult, I have to try.’’

She gathered the stones into a pile and started making towers out of them. Again and again, they fell and collapsed. But she persevered and rebuilt them. ‘’I will not be defeated. I will not give up.’’ She piled them up, and they collapsed again and again. But she then piled up a few together, and lo and behold, they precariously stood!

‘’If I cannot do everything myself, I’ll have to obtain something which will help me. She took her gun out of her overalls and fired a round at the sky. As if to reply to her shot, a message with a set of coordinates and the message I am here interrupted her radio’s emissions before returning to normal.

‘’Oh? Is that a challenge? Very well, I accept it… Great Scott, I’ve gone and done it again. Oh well. Bright side, Olivia, bright side: This might be a step towards world peace. If they’re in trouble, I shall help them and edge ever so closer to world peace. If they are villians, it shall be the same result. The same will happen if they were just messing around: I will explain to them why broadcasting your location isn’t a good idea. In any case, let’s make plans before engaging the enemy. First off… The enemy army’s location.’’ Olivia had gone into full Sun Tzu mode, and nothing could stop her now.

She calculated the distance between her own coordinates and the ones she had received. ‘’Very well. They are located in… Huh?’’ A brief look of surprise crossed her face before her usual composed look returned to her face. ‘’They are in the village, a few hundred metres away from here. Is this Fetail playing a prank on me? No, she’d be too lazy. Miss Almudena? She does not seem like the type of person to play a prank like this. Very well, the enemy has infiltrated our stronghold. Now, should I ask for reinforcements? No, information could leak, and that would allow the enemy general to further prepare against me. I assume they have collected information on us. I do attract a sizable amount of attention in my two forms. I shall take advantage of that to make them panic and force them to make unwise decisions… Hadrinyan. I have a task for you: Be swift like the wind.’’ Gladstone then swallowed her radio and umbrella to store them: It was rather bizarre.

With a blast of light and dust stronger than usual, Hadrinyan showed up and replaced Olivia. ‘’Hmph! I have understood your plight, and I shall gracefully go forth. Gladstone, let’s go get ‘em!’’ The dragon had been hiding in her shadow and quietly watching her. ‘’Understood, Your Royal Highness! For the glory of Yuggoth!’’

With those words, Hadrinyan ran down the road which led to the village at an astonishing speed, twisting and turning until the village’s church was in sight. Swerving to avoid the cars that were parked along the path, she arrived at the church square and leapt towards a tower-like building with a blue door, which was located to the left of the church: The building was merely supposed to be a vessel to supply electrical power to the village, as the doors indicated: Danger Of Death, High Voltage! Could this be a trap?

"Gladstone, could you please check for any anomalies in the area? It's not like I need it or anything!" The maid asked.

Gladstone vibrated for a moment before reporting back: His scan was done. ‘’One anomaly detected, Your Royal Highness. In addition, I have detected another Magical Girl apart from Fetail in the village, but she is not nearby, and is in her human form. For the sake of Your Royal Highness, it’s best if I stay silent and avoid revealing their identity. Now, the anomaly I detected… I found a tunnel inside this building, and there is a faint presence at the end of it.’’

Hadrinyan decided to ignore the fact that there was another Magical Girl among them: If Gladstone said it was best if she didn’t know, it was for a good reason. She nodded and summoned her scythe. ‘’A maid must eliminate bugs if they are present. I’m going in!’’ She held back a bit and kicked the door open, almost making a hole in them, and found that the cables and wires that supplied electricity to the village had been taped to one side, allowing a tunnel to be dug on the right side of the building’s floor. Carefully avoiding the dangerous cables, the maid closed the doors behind her and headed down the narrow tunnel, which seemed to go into Earth’s depths. ‘’How long has this been here? It does not look recent. How did they even manage to make this without anyone noticing? I’m pretty sure the maintenance company knows about this, but they haven’t done anything about it. It’s not like I’m afraid or anything: I know no fear!’’

She continued to walk, occasionally turning clumps of dust she found into light. For some reasons, they were rare to find, as if someone set out to clean the tunnel in a rather frequent manner.

After a while, it got too dark to see. ‘’Very well, tunnel. Allow me to show you what a good maid is made out of!’’ She held her weapon behind her head and supplied a steady coat of dust to it, which promptly turned into light. ‘’How ingenious, Your Royal Highness!’’ Hadrinyan couldn’t handle praises properly, so she fell into silence and walked on and on. At one point, the composition of the walls changed from rock and dirt to a pretty, polished white marble. The marble walls were lined with inscriptions, arranged in rows and columns, and all in a language she could not identify. ‘’Any clues on the identity of the language, Gladstone? It’s not like I don’t know, but I’d like to test your knowledge!’’

Gladstone then replied: ‘’Your Royal Highness, I believe I have ascertained its true nature! It appears to be a cuneiform language, probably Classical Sumerian, but I might be mistaken. I hope your Royal Highness can tolerate my indiscretion.’’

‘’Gladstone, you undersell yourself: You are a mighty mascot and a good friend of mine. You should be more proud of yourself, you know… Only the mightiest and best mascot can serve me, the great Dust Princess Hadrinyan!”

‘’Your praises have elevated my spirit, Your Royal Highness. I shall endeavour to keep my head up high, for I serve the mightiest Magical Girl, the Yuggoth Cat!’’

Upon hearing that embarrassing nickname, Hadrinyan covered her face in shame: She did not like it all, even though Dust Princess Hadrinyan was equally embarrassing. She also didn’t like being praised too much, as she found it embarrassing. Both her forms, she considered that criticism was important too, and that blind praise would bring nothing good. But of course, nobody cared, and they praised away.

After a while of walking, they stopped at the end of the tunnel, and stood before a marble double door. ‘’It’s not like I like this location's use of marble or anything… Dumb tunnel NEETS, damn you and your architectural taste!’’

Hadrinyan knocked on the door thrice. ‘’Open the door or I’ll kick it down!’’ It was an empty threat, as she didn’t want to ruin the architecture. If she had to, she’d force it open, but she'd try to avoid damaging it too much.

She pushed it against it to check if it was open, and saw that it was open… And she also saw why it had all been hidden so well. Before her was a long marble room which resembled the interior of a Greek temple, but with countless crystals and rocks of all sizes and colours jutting out of the ceiling, walls and the floor. The place looked like it had been hit by a hurricane: There were also countless notebooks and papers strewn around: They contained a mix of Classical Sumerian and English. And at the end of the room, atop of a tall pile of rocks, sat a girl, scribbling away at a notebook with a pen. She had a radio, which seemed to be emitting smoke: It was unusable.

The girl was about 153cm tall, and had short brown hair, which was styled into a large and fluffy ponytail which curved outwards a bit at the top, and then inwards near the bottom before curving out again at the bottom. Her hair was also styled into two long and thin twintails.

The girl's bangs were parted, swept slightly outwards and pointed to the right, but she had a lock of her which had decided that it should go to the left.

Her side hair was short, thick and pointy, and pointed towards her cheeks, where it rested. Her sideburns looked similar, but they pointed downwards and were not on her cheeks. They were slightly longer, and surpassed her chin by a bit. On her head she sported a pair of brown dog-ears, which were pointy and pointing upwards. She also sported two extra locks of hair on her head, at the top of it. They were both long and stuck out: One hung in front of her forehead a bit, at a good distance looking like it intended to fish, pointing downwards strongly. The other stuck out too, and it emerged from the same spot as the other one. However, this one was much shorter, and followed the trajectory of the other one for a bit before pointing downwards a bit.

The strange girl's eyebrows were brown, thick and short, while her eyes were big and a dark grey color. Her pupils were black and looked quite catlike, even though she was not a cat. Her outfit was simple but still strange: She wore a sports swimsuit which was a darkish grey. The short girl also wore an open black parka with dark purple grey cuffs: The interior of her parka was of the same color, as seen in the interior of her hoodie. She also wore fingerless gloves, which were a slightly darker grey than her swimsuit.

As for her legwear, she wore Christmas stockings! They were the same color as her swimsuit, but their cuffs were wide and white, and each cuff had a tiny yellow ribbon in its frontal middle part. She didn't need shoes, as the Christmas stockings already covered that need. They only went slightly up above her knees, leaving a gap between her stockings and her swimsuit, which revealed her thighs.

Finally, a large and fluffy dog tail emerged from her lower back. Its outer part was as brown as her hair, and its inner part was white. And said tail was at that moment, curled inwards.

The girl looked rather goofy, with her grey swimsuit and the cute pair of pointy dog ears on her head. Plus, she was pretty small. But she looked awfully familiar to Hadrinyan. After seeing that the girl hadn’t noticed her, Hadrinyan took a moment to take a closer look at the crystals, rocks and papers while trying to figure out who the hell that girl was. She examined a particularly bright crystal which had a few legible words carved on its surface: Nebuchadnezzar Delenda Est. Then it dawned on her. The identity of this familiar-looking girl dawned on her.

It was the nickname of none other than Godofreda Wegener, an eccentric half-Spanish, half-German archaeologist who went missing shortly before Magical Girls started appearing. Hadrinyan had briefly looked for her too, but to no avail. Her disappearance was considered to be voluntary, and since it wasn’t the first time it happened, the case was dropped. But here she was: And now she had dog ears and a tail even though she was not a Magical Girl! Ignoring the passionate gaze boring on her back, she spoke.

‘’Professor Wegener, I, Dust Princess Hadrinyan, have heeded your call and arrived promptly. Be grateful for my presence!’’ Godofreda’s reply came swiftly, in the form of a notebook to the Dust Princess’ face, which caused Gladstone to have a fit, and also came in the form of a string of curse words in Classical Sumerian. The Professor stuffed her notebook under her arm and jumped in front of Hadrinyan, saying something in Sumerian again. But of course, Hadrinyan could not understand her, and neither could Gladstone. To solve that problem and to stop the situation from breaking down, Hadrinyan did what she was best at: Violence.

So she brought her gloved paw down on the Professor’s head, knocking her out. Surely, that wouldn't kill her or give her a concussion, right? She held back, after all.

To Hadrinyan’s relief, she was breathing just fine. Having applied the try turning it off and on method, she hoped that it would work out in the end. With that out of the way, she got Gladstone to pick up the papers, notebooks and three lead tablets strewn around the floor, and Hadriyan then slung the girl over her shoulder: She smelt like firewood. A cat-eared maid, an unconscious dog-girl in a swimsuit and a small golden dragon exited the room and made their way through the narrow tunnel, maintaining silence. There was enough wiggle room for all of them, but it was still quite uncomfortable. She even had to unsummon her weapon.

The trio left the electricity building through the damaged doors, closed it and went on their merry way. Their direction? HQ, Hadrinyan-Olivia’s house. They turned left and headed down a street which sloped downwards. Trotting down it, Hadrinyan waved at the villagers who were socialising in the main square, which was located right next to the sloped street which Hadrinyan had just gone through: Now, it was a straight shot home. ‘’Friends of the village, do not be alarmed: I have saved this person from utter stupidity. Now, allow me to go home: It is urgent! Bye bye, it’s not like I’m about to cry from the pressure or anything!’’

‘’Go, Your Royal Highness, go!’’ She was cheered on by the villagers and by Gladstone, who struggled to keep up with her. She blasted down the streets again, and in mere seconds jumped over the fountain near her house, hopped over the containers near her house, and stopped in front of the old bus stop: She had arrived at Calle Fuente Nueva.

She knocked on the door and rang the doorbell which was promptly opened by Fetail, who did not look perturbed at all by the fact that her friend and supervisee was carrying a girl around. ‘’As expected from the mega-stalker, her intel was correct. I’m too tired to deal with this, so you do it.’’ After that disturbing comment, they went inside and closed the door, then walked past the garage which had a storage room in it, and past the cellar before arriving at their entrance hall and going into the living room.

Hadrinyan left the girl on the couch, sat down next to her and switched on the TV. Having done that, she promptly called Olivia to the scene, the only one with enough mental maturity to deal with this. While the TV displayed a Sevillian procession scene from a few years back, Olivia stared in horror at her situation, while Fetail took a nap on a chair, next to a table behind the couch. Meanwhile, Gladstone left what he was carrying on a small table in front of the couch , and floated off to the kitchen to prepare a snack for everyone.

‘’I have to maintain the Dust Cat, the lazy fox, this dog-eared weirdo, and myself. And I have to spend time and resources dealing with that superpowered stalker of a mailwoman. I also have to pay our bills. I’m going to have to ask for a raise in both jobs: My Magical Girl salary is good, but it could be better. But my UFO hunter salary is pathetic. Aaaah, I can already feel my wallet crying out in pain… Magical Girls don’t eat or drink, my ass! They do, and several times more than me. I will also have to deal with this girl’s bizarre tendencies and her obsession with baths. Does she even have a passport? I can’t see any papers on her. Silly swimsuit-wearing Berliner, did you really forget them? I can’t ask Almu- No, the now-superpowered stalker. I can’t ask the mayor for help yet, he’s still celebrating his victory in the recent elections, and Gladstone won’t be of much help. This is going to be troublesome… Where did my peaceful life of isolation go?’’

Olivia was close to losing her cool, but she took a deep breath and managed to calm herself down. ‘’Bright side, Olivia. Bright side. In country where high roads intersect, join hands with your allies.’’ Someone had to maintain the household’s financial stability, and it was going to be her. After all, the road to world peace was paved with paying your taxes and not going bankrupt.

‘’I can do this, I can do this. I’ve dealt with worse situations, like Hadriyan trying to tackle the Argentinian ambassador to test his strength or ploughing through the President’s security detail just to clean dust off his suit.’’ Looks like Hadrinyan caused a good amount of trouble for Olivia. She looked at the now sleeping Godofreda and scratched her a bit behind her dog ears, causing her to stir a bit. She’d never had a dog before, so this was a new experience. Perhaps she had a soft spot for animals. Olivia turned her head at the TV’s screen and watched the procession for a good while. She'd eventually have to prepare for Holy Week, and she was looking forward to it.

After a few minutes, the Professor jumped up from the couch and started pacing around the living room, much to Olivia’s surprise. ‘’By Hammurabi’s beard! I get it, I get it! This could work, this could work! Yes, this is a great idea. I must tell somebody as soon as possible, I must tell them that vanishing for a year and spending God-knows-how-long down there with little supplies and a crappy radio was not a mistake!’’ She swerved around and pointed at Olivia. ‘’You, you smell like that cat maid! I guess that this is your human form. Please listen to me, I have found a method to counter Magical Girls!’’ How had everyone missed her presence? The answer was probably The village is full of weirdos, adding one more won't surprise anyone.

Olivia patted the girl’s head and sighed: ‘’Professor Wegener, I will listen to you. But first, you must take a bath: You smell like firewood: I assume it's firewood perfume to hide the stench of being down there for so long. Go down the corridor outside this door, and then turn left. I know how much you like baths, so go ahead. There should be a few spare outfits and underwear in the bathroom, so please put your current clothes in the washing machine once you’re done. When you’re done, I’ll have you explain your situation and ask a few questions. But for now, go have some fun in the bath. Don’t worry, I assume you’ll be staying here for the foreseeable future, so I'll prepare everything for you."

The girl was visibly overjoyed: ‘’Aw, thank you for letting me stay here! I’ll make sure to explain everything you want to know!‘’ She saluted Olivia and rushed off to take a bath, disappearing down the corridor. Olivia stared at the corridor before speaking.

‘’I can’t believe I’m having to babysit such weird people. At times like these, I’d feel more comfortable around Miss Almudena-’’ She immediately regretted those words which came as a result of letting her guard down, and a powerful gaze bored her way into her back through the window.

She dug into her overalls and pointed her gun at the window, which caused the presence to scamper away. ‘’She is growing bolder. Looks like I know who to test the Professor’s device on if she finishes it.’’ She adjusted her eyepatch and took her monocle off to clean it with her shirt, and then put it back on. ‘’So much for A menacing outfit and appearance will facilitate avoiding unneeded social contact, Olivia. All warfare is based on deception, but deception becomes useless when seen through. So one cannot rely on fear and deception alone.’’

Gladstone came back into the living room with a plate full of cookies and three glasses of orange juice, leaving it on the table in front of the couch. At the same time, a heavy rain started falling outside, so they closed the windows and lowered their blinds. Luckily, they had made sure to ensure the safety of their garage by moving everything up to the rooms in the floor they were in, so it would only require cleaning if it flooded. And the car? The car would be fine. Sensing the turmoil inside Olivia’s mind, Gladstone elected not to say anything. Eventually, the Professor came back from the bathroom after putting her clothes to wash, wearing a maid outfit like Hadrinyan’s.

‘’By Hammurabi’s beard, that was one hell of a bath! You’re a fellow bath appreciator, I see. We have so much in common! Oh, snacks! Goody!’’ The maid picked up the papers and tablets that were on the table, sat down on the sofa and started helping herself to a bunch of cookies and her glass of orange juice.

As if sensing that she had to show up, Fetail woke up from her nap and sat down between the two, using her tails as a chair to sit on the couch. Of course, they had to move aside a bit.

‘’Rest is peace, work is slavery, laziness is strength.’’ Fetail removed her gas mask and took a sip of her glass after saying that. ‘’Our future is looking grim. For Magical Girls, commercialization of our work, an endless and ever-growing mountain of work shoved upon us, and the threat of our human bodies ageing while in our Magical Form. For humans, the usual: Self-made or natural annihilation.’’ She tapped her gas mask thrice, causing a mercury pill to jump into her hand, and then swallowed the pill: Magical Girls could do these types of things and get away with them, but even they could not escape the sands of time… Or could they?

‘’I hate having to make an effort, but I can make exceptions. My search for immortality, if successful, will allow me to laze around until the Sun swallows the Earth. Ah, Death is such an ugly thing. But my search for eternal life will be the denial of denial, the great affirmation my great expression of amor fati! Just joking, please ignore everything I just said☆!’’

She gave them a thumbs up and a satisfied expression appeared on her face. ‘’I’ve always wanted to say that. Heh, you two look like you have many things to say. Go ahead, I’ll just listen to you and make the occasional comment." Thus began their fast-paced dialogue session, with the rain falling as their background music.

Olivia downed her juice and spoke: "Time for a lightning introduction round. I am Olivia Del Riego Y Flórez, and the cat maid you saw was Dust Princess Hadrinyan, my Magical Girl Form.’’

‘’I am Godofreda Wegener, but they call me Professor or Nebuchadnezzar. I am a half-German half-Spanish archaeologist from Berlin. I love baths and I specialise in finding curse tablets! Thank you for letting me stay here!’’

‘’Haaaah. I am Clockwise Fetail, a Philosopher Magical Girl, and I won’t reveal my real name to anyone. Olivia knows, though. Nice to meet you, Neb. I sure hope you're not a pain in the ass.’’ They shook hands, and Olivia nodded.

‘’Let’s begin the questioning. First, why the swimsuit, Professor?’’

‘’Easy question! It is a dear memento of my swimming lessons, which I took when I was younger. It still fits, even though I am 23 now: I’ve grown a bit, but not that much! But it is starting to become a bit tight…‘’

"That is rather surprising to hear, but it is good that you have not forgotten your roots. Next question: Why were you down there, in that temple-like place?’’

‘’By Hammurabi’s beard, what a question! As I said before, I vanished for a year or so to launch a private investigation on some interesting structures in this area, which appeared mostly underground. Most of them contained curse tablets: The first one I found gave me this!’’ She pointed at her dog-like ears and tail. ‘’And of course, most of them were Roman tablets. Damn you, Romans: One of your tablets forced me to eat grass! I ended up finding three tablets in the area below the village: The first one forced me to speak in Classic Sumerian, the second one made me unable to leave the area until someone knocked me out, and the third one forced me to develop an intense affection for the person I saw… It works on both human forms and Magical Girl Forms, I think! Still, thank you: You heeded my cry for help, my SOS!’’ She glanced at Olivia, blushing a bit.

‘’That’s not good, the stalker’s going to get you!’’ Fetail shook her head and looked around the room: ‘’She’s here, what a pain to deal with.’’

Godofreda shivered as a very angry stare dug itself into her head, from the ceiling: It appeared that someone wasn’t happy at all with that revelation, at all. For some reason, Godofreda lost her temper after receiving that angry stare, and grabbed the soaked figure on the ceiling, wrestling her until she had her in a headlock: Almudena was promptly kicked out of the house by the dog maid, but for how long?

‘’I have one last question for you, Professor. What about that method to counter Magical Girls? It could be quite useful to counter certain individuals when they go out of control.’’

‘’I sure hope this does not come back to bite us one day, heh… Or perhaps it could save me." Fetail knew that her quest could be endangered by that method. If she failed because of it, she’d gladly accept returning to dust and indulging in indolence forever. But she couldn't and wouldn't fail.

‘’I’ll explain it! Curse tablets emit a certain kind of energy when emitting their curse. If we could replicate it and channel it into a suitable vessel, we would be able to use it as a Magical Girl-disabling weapon. It's like making an arrow out of energy!''

‘’Girl, that idea sucks. I don’t think I have to worry about my little quest, then!’’

‘’That is a… unique idea. Will it work at all? Alien technology could do it...’’

‘’I have no idea: I’m just an archaeologist!’’ Godofreda whacked Fetail on the head for insulting her idea and gave Olivia a big hug. "I knew you wouldn’t insult my ideas!" Olivia wanted to avoid contact, but even she could not push the girl away, so she begrudgingly let her.

"Wonderful, Princess! Your charms have been appreciated!"

"Well well, look at the city-slicker pulling up with her fancy German dog-girl."

Fetail patted Olivia on the back and shoved one of her tails into her face: "Having to deal with others is a pain, isn’t it?"

"I understand you now, Fetail. Ah, my desk job, where are you?"

"Desk jobs are a lesser evil, but they are still evil. Fight against oppression, fight against work!"

"Oooooi, don't ignore me! Damn you, fox!" Nebu threw herself at Fetail, who restrained her with her gooey tails. "Don't underestimate me, grass-eater, or I’ll force whatever divine entity is out there to age-restrict us!’’ Fetail glared at the dog-girl.

‘’Noooo, not an age restriction! We are family friendly and wholesome, nooo!’’ Godofreda protested.

Before things could spiral out of control and head in a weird direction, Olivia whacked them both on the head, causing Fetail to let go of Godofreda: ‘’Enough of that, girls. It is heartening to know you’ve developed a friendly comedy routine, but you shouldn’t overdo it. At least, not while I’m present, ok?’’

‘’Whatever you say, Oli. Messing with this one is fun, but if you say so, I’ll stop. You’re the smart one here, after all…'’ Fetail shrugged and groomed her fox ears.

Godofreda clung to Olivia’s arm, covered in goo. ‘’Hey, I’m pretty smart too! Have you forgotten that I hold the title of Professor? Show me some respect!’’

‘’Respect? Aight, I’ll show you respect, dumb doggy!’’ Fetail rushed towards Godofreda and began scratching her behind her animal ears.

‘’Help me, Oliviaaaa!’’ She said that, but she looked rather pleased and on the brink of laughing.

Olivia looked at the ceiling: ‘’Gladstone, it is peace for our time. There are clouds in the horizon, but for now, it’s clear and sunny for us.’’

‘’Princess, I pray that you are not mistaken. May the rivers of Yuggoth protect us.’’

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