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ide, "Anything that doesn't break the six rules is fair game. Besides, Y Universit

against installing elevators, somehow making it to

a familiar figure. It is my roommate Julie, and

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s head rotates 270 degrees on her neck to face me.

omeone's head twist around like that, especially

iar and alien, I stagger back a few ste

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ntent, it was her unwavering presence that carved out a sanctuary of light in the

her she be an NPC created by the game than to see he

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ly open the medical kit to treat and bandage Bai-Wan's hand. After taking

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time on our phones doesn't match this wo

t. "What kind of high-

don't know? This is a smart band produced by M Compa

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than he does on TV; he actually

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eight in one year. I read

information from a nove

er. It is only on the operating table, beside his wife's lifeless body, that he discovers she had already do

g, finding all his wealth meaningless without her. Just as M Company faces b

ny insider. According to him, the novel's plot is based on r

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fully and refuses to s