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“Soon they'll meet us, their nemesis.”
“You promised revenge, but you only fed my anger,” she said, caressing his mechanical arm. “When, darling? When?”
“Be patience, my love,” he grunted. “We'll arrive at their solar system in another decade.”
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My anticipation grew when, coming out of the nebulous incongruities of this gas giant, I saw the first signs of the citadel built in the clouds, as real as it can be.
I had arrived at my final destination.
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My shell, a sturdy piece, protected me while marched behind the enemy lines; radiation peaked when I approached ground zero, and it started to sting me. On that day, I was an involuntary angel of death, walking on the desolated fields of Armageddon.
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The light of the morning cast its curse on my face as the bedroom door slowly opened. I knew I would die in bed, but I never expected that it would be like this. There is no justice in the underworld of the undead.
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An impossible cloud engulfed us in the middle of the night without warning. We had no time to change course, so we sailed into the gray abyss. We were in shallow waters when we suddenly felt a sizable distance. We had entered the Bermuda’s Triangle.
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He spent years fighting that illusory perception of self, by merging with the background, by trying to be invisible, but he failed every time.
Finally, he understood that the real challenge was not to get lost, but to find himself, and then he found permanent serenity.
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The tournament is over for today.
The players of the game will test their skills again tomorrow.
"Our fortune is decided. The I-Ching will tell."
"Yes. Let's eat before the next round!"
We are only feathers adrift in the flow of life;
it's all we are.
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Their journey among the stars took them to their final destination, a planet with an oversized moon, and no hostile life forms apart from large reptiles, as the prophecy stated.
“We sanctify this planet as our new home,” said their leader, “We’ll name it: Atlantis.”
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Earth is a polluted wasteland beyond recovery. We did it and we're ashamed of it, I am.
In time, we made contact with aliens out there, and when they came, they evacuated the cetacean and other sentient species, but not us.
Humans were not worth being rescued, I got it.
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