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Long spidery fingers slowly danced over the ivory keys as if caressing a lover in an age old embrace. There was no rush of fumbling youth at the crossroads of their first foray into pleasurable adulthood but rather the calm before the storm touch of lovers reunited once more. The music itself wept with longing, each note crying out desperately into the stillness to be heard, to be felt, to be touched.

The man at the piano poured his very soul into what he was doing as his body swayed and his slid to half-mast as if hypnotized by the very magic that he was creating. Eventually though as all things do, the song came to an end, the notes trailing off into deafening silence once more.

With a sigh Theodore allowed his hands to fall into his lap as he at last stilled. Once more he was returned to the painful reality of pure silence. The music which had once been his greatest joy in his youth now served as both savior and executioner. It was his escape as he felt each note tremble beneath his fingertips in anticipation and yet also his reminder of how much he had lost in the past decade. No longer could he hear those soulful notes that shook him to his very core. For with each movement's completion returned the sorrow of remembrance as that was all he had at the end of the day, a memory of sound.
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"No Pride For Some of Us Without Liberation For All of Us"
~ Micah Bazant ~

Spoiler
Leaderships
Tirial Province (Serendipity)

Talu Territory (Adela)

Ninja Flamingos

Guilds - Under Construction and Revamping
Blood of Ash || Cleara Verdad || The Creoptera || The Reaper's Chalice || The Runner's Society || Vigilant Shadows

Characters
Agapito Perlaceo Calogero-Marcello da Lume || Ainsley Muir || Alanna Mercer "The Lioness" || Amleah Dvorak || Ariel "Owlet" Sowa || Artorius Winterbottom || Aurora "Makani'kai" Wiater || Autumn Laurel || The Bad Barkers || Benjamin Hase || Cally Foster || Cornelia Grey || Dagrun Baarda || Derrick Elthif || Donovan Cabello || Eireann Lehr || Elmira Sassafrass || Emma Fiore || Emyr Kasabian || Ferra Bestley || Fintan Kfir || Gilroy Bleddyn || Hanalei Keets || Hilarius Winterbottom || Imogene Khale || Incana Winged Blaze || Inteus Wapapow || Iorwerth/Ylli || Ithel Conlaoch || Justina Allons || Jypsei Danzer || Kailee Glint || Kaliko || Keegan Phillips || Kendall Wendle || Kenneth Kent || Kesrel Torv || Kharn Segal || Kirsikka Solvi || Ladybird "Petal" Hornwort || Lassassasya Ashaugh Seocss || Logan "Kotori" || Lorcan Dempsey || Malakai || Margot Lemaire || Maverick Alinari || Morgan Loone || Naomi Kita || Navarre Esken || Ocarern Farwind || Oddmund Greatdrool || Oliver Cabello || Pannoowau || Peregrine Liebling || Primrose Dragoslav || Pyske Daas || Qaletaqa || Quilla Anobe || Rene Zephra || Riley "Minnow" Bellerose || Ro'or Dvorak || Rosie || Rowan Alvar || Rylan Silvanus || Segari "Errum" Ggorf || Shamira Kashi || Solanacae || Sor Avi || Squeaker || Starbright Skye ||  Tiraris Silverd'art || Tighearnán High Eoforwine || Theodore Archer || Tyler Brice || Una Ornell || Vanora Partholon || Waman Pertinacity Sewati || Weilen Brunbek || Wilbur "Wilby" Smalls || Yalwa al-Kahinah || Yasmine Fairchild || Yura Elek || Zhirai Ver || Zurna Nali
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Zane

Elijah leaned against the wall next to the door just outside the room, face tilted skyward and eyes closed as he listened to the haunting tune. Clutched to his chest was a still hot mug of rose tea, Theo's favorite. Eli could tell by the song that was being played that he would want it. There was just something about his music, the way it could stir the deepest emotions, the ones you carried at a greater depth than the heart. Most didn't get to appreciate it like Eli did. His mother heard her son's safe hobby, his father hears the faded reminder of a tragedy. Then there were those that came to hear him play, and what they heard were beautiful notes played by a deaf man. It was beyond all of their caliber to truly hear the sound Theodore played. The sound of a raw soul brandished to those that will listen.

Once it was over, he stayed there for a moment, in the hanging silence. Eli scarce dared to breathe while blinking back tears that he couldn't quite account for the reason why they were there. Recovering, Eli walked in, a glamour over his face to hide the puffiness in his eyes. "Here you are, Theo." the servant said softly, holding out the steaming cup to him.

GoblinFae

Theodore did not hear the door open but he did feel the heavy door shake its frame as it closed and the footsteps that followed. He did not need to look behind him to know who it was, the almost delicate gait made with a grace that no human could possess easily identified his manservant.

Sure enough a steaming mug entered his peripheral vision and the hand extending it was indeed Elijah's. With a small nod and a whispered, "thank you," the nobleman accepted the hot drink, moving to cradle it in his hands in his lap.

Wordlessly he shifted himself across his bench to allow the other man a chance to sit beside him. He stared off to the side where Elijah stood, looking without actually seeing as his heavy thoughts continued to carry him miles away from the here and now.
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[O.o]
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-"--"-


"No Pride For Some of Us Without Liberation For All of Us"
~ Micah Bazant ~

Spoiler
Leaderships
Tirial Province (Serendipity)

Talu Territory (Adela)

Ninja Flamingos

Guilds - Under Construction and Revamping
Blood of Ash || Cleara Verdad || The Creoptera || The Reaper's Chalice || The Runner's Society || Vigilant Shadows

Characters
Agapito Perlaceo Calogero-Marcello da Lume || Ainsley Muir || Alanna Mercer "The Lioness" || Amleah Dvorak || Ariel "Owlet" Sowa || Artorius Winterbottom || Aurora "Makani'kai" Wiater || Autumn Laurel || The Bad Barkers || Benjamin Hase || Cally Foster || Cornelia Grey || Dagrun Baarda || Derrick Elthif || Donovan Cabello || Eireann Lehr || Elmira Sassafrass || Emma Fiore || Emyr Kasabian || Ferra Bestley || Fintan Kfir || Gilroy Bleddyn || Hanalei Keets || Hilarius Winterbottom || Imogene Khale || Incana Winged Blaze || Inteus Wapapow || Iorwerth/Ylli || Ithel Conlaoch || Justina Allons || Jypsei Danzer || Kailee Glint || Kaliko || Keegan Phillips || Kendall Wendle || Kenneth Kent || Kesrel Torv || Kharn Segal || Kirsikka Solvi || Ladybird "Petal" Hornwort || Lassassasya Ashaugh Seocss || Logan "Kotori" || Lorcan Dempsey || Malakai || Margot Lemaire || Maverick Alinari || Morgan Loone || Naomi Kita || Navarre Esken || Ocarern Farwind || Oddmund Greatdrool || Oliver Cabello || Pannoowau || Peregrine Liebling || Primrose Dragoslav || Pyske Daas || Qaletaqa || Quilla Anobe || Rene Zephra || Riley "Minnow" Bellerose || Ro'or Dvorak || Rosie || Rowan Alvar || Rylan Silvanus || Segari "Errum" Ggorf || Shamira Kashi || Solanacae || Sor Avi || Squeaker || Starbright Skye ||  Tiraris Silverd'art || Tighearnán High Eoforwine || Theodore Archer || Tyler Brice || Una Ornell || Vanora Partholon || Waman Pertinacity Sewati || Weilen Brunbek || Wilbur "Wilby" Smalls || Yalwa al-Kahinah || Yasmine Fairchild || Yura Elek || Zhirai Ver || Zurna Nali
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Zane

Eli graciously took the invitation to sit, having to adjust his flowing clothes under him.

Stillness filled the room while the quietness fell once again. It was raining outside, casting the room in a queer dark light. All of this combined was... depressing. Where there had once been beautiful music was now filled with a cacophony of silence, as unnatural and invasive as only the lack of something could be. He didn't like it, it felt so unnatural, the main reason he didn't try to fill it with something, anything, was out of respect for Theo, who had to live with silence forever.

That had been a major failing to him. When Theo fell ill. He- on some level -blamed himself for the loss Theodore suffered from the illness that Eli couldn't prevent.

After a while though, Eli couldn't stand such an oppressive and hostile silence. He didn't have the patience of will that his master did. An elbow gently prodded Theo in the side, getting him to look up, "I've been getting better." The Fae put his hands to the ready position and began to play a very emotional song. It started out slow, somber, almost sad. Several bars later and the pace opened to something more, it was wonderment and glimpses of happiness. By time he reached the end, Eli was happy that he had only made fourteen mistakes. An all time low for this song! But the music itself lacked the depth that Theo could play forth from the keys.

"How did I do?" Eli asked as his hands fell away.

GoblinFae

Hazel eyes instantly snapped to attention to rest easily upon moving lips. It came naturally to Theodore after a decade of silence to seek out lips instead of eyes when looking at person now in order to follow a conversation his ears no longer could. There were times he could not understand what was being said, times when a speaker spoke too fast or mumbled or did not face him so he could see but that was never the issue with Elijah. Since the day that Theodore had been born Elijah had been a part of his life, adapting and growing to suit the younger man's needs.

Now though Theodore allowed himself to focus with the highest amount of concentration on the slender hands trying so desperately to pull a song into existence. It caused him to smile softly even as he caught the mistakes. Had Elijah been his student he would have stopped him immediately but this was different. Here in this room Theodore was not teacher and Elijah was not student.

When the other man was finished, the nobleman nodded his head, reaching one warm hand out to place on the center of the older man's back soothingly."Better," he commended softly before signaling with his other hand in a circular motion for him to try again. The tea was abandoned, the cup placed with utmost care on the floor so that it would not spill before Theodore placed his hands carefully over top of Elijah's and began to play with him, guiding his fingers to the right notes with the confidence of a seasoned player.
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[O.o]
/)__)
-"--"-


"No Pride For Some of Us Without Liberation For All of Us"
~ Micah Bazant ~

Spoiler
Leaderships
Tirial Province (Serendipity)

Talu Territory (Adela)

Ninja Flamingos

Guilds - Under Construction and Revamping
Blood of Ash || Cleara Verdad || The Creoptera || The Reaper's Chalice || The Runner's Society || Vigilant Shadows

Characters
Agapito Perlaceo Calogero-Marcello da Lume || Ainsley Muir || Alanna Mercer "The Lioness" || Amleah Dvorak || Ariel "Owlet" Sowa || Artorius Winterbottom || Aurora "Makani'kai" Wiater || Autumn Laurel || The Bad Barkers || Benjamin Hase || Cally Foster || Cornelia Grey || Dagrun Baarda || Derrick Elthif || Donovan Cabello || Eireann Lehr || Elmira Sassafrass || Emma Fiore || Emyr Kasabian || Ferra Bestley || Fintan Kfir || Gilroy Bleddyn || Hanalei Keets || Hilarius Winterbottom || Imogene Khale || Incana Winged Blaze || Inteus Wapapow || Iorwerth/Ylli || Ithel Conlaoch || Justina Allons || Jypsei Danzer || Kailee Glint || Kaliko || Keegan Phillips || Kendall Wendle || Kenneth Kent || Kesrel Torv || Kharn Segal || Kirsikka Solvi || Ladybird "Petal" Hornwort || Lassassasya Ashaugh Seocss || Logan "Kotori" || Lorcan Dempsey || Malakai || Margot Lemaire || Maverick Alinari || Morgan Loone || Naomi Kita || Navarre Esken || Ocarern Farwind || Oddmund Greatdrool || Oliver Cabello || Pannoowau || Peregrine Liebling || Primrose Dragoslav || Pyske Daas || Qaletaqa || Quilla Anobe || Rene Zephra || Riley "Minnow" Bellerose || Ro'or Dvorak || Rosie || Rowan Alvar || Rylan Silvanus || Segari "Errum" Ggorf || Shamira Kashi || Solanacae || Sor Avi || Squeaker || Starbright Skye ||  Tiraris Silverd'art || Tighearnán High Eoforwine || Theodore Archer || Tyler Brice || Una Ornell || Vanora Partholon || Waman Pertinacity Sewati || Weilen Brunbek || Wilbur "Wilby" Smalls || Yalwa al-Kahinah || Yasmine Fairchild || Yura Elek || Zhirai Ver || Zurna Nali
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Zane

There was warmth, the soft heat of a fire or the sun during the early fall. Then there was warmth from the physical closeness of someone you so deeply cared about. Very few humans were blessed enough to experience this warmth, what with their jobs and greed and always wanting more. Eli would always pity mankind for that alone, because despite the phenomenal music around them, all the Fae could concentrate on was the warmth that radiated from Theo. And it took all the willpower that the servant possessed not to lean into the Manling.

GoblinFae

Theodore allowed the music to fade yet his hands remained overtop of Elijah's on the keys. His mind was miles away, focused on the thoughts that had been plaguing him for weeks. When he at last broke the silence though his eyes were still clouded and unfocused as if he was speaking in a trance.

"Elijah, I've been thinking," he murmured softly, trailing off into silence once more as he licked his lips nervously. Theodore sighed and shook his head sadly. "I am weary of this place. I feel as if I am lacking in experience in life, as if I've left things unfulfilled. I want to...I want to go out into the world and see it for myself. See it beyond this city and the shadow of my family name. I wish to travel and to live truly before I at last forfeit my freedom to whatever bride my mother has chosen at the time."

He sighed and shook his head once more, his hands dropping into his lap as he allowed his eyes to focus on his companion. "Are these foolish ideas Elijah? Am I being delusional?"
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[O.o]
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-"--"-


"No Pride For Some of Us Without Liberation For All of Us"
~ Micah Bazant ~

Spoiler
Leaderships
Tirial Province (Serendipity)

Talu Territory (Adela)

Ninja Flamingos

Guilds - Under Construction and Revamping
Blood of Ash || Cleara Verdad || The Creoptera || The Reaper's Chalice || The Runner's Society || Vigilant Shadows

Characters
Agapito Perlaceo Calogero-Marcello da Lume || Ainsley Muir || Alanna Mercer "The Lioness" || Amleah Dvorak || Ariel "Owlet" Sowa || Artorius Winterbottom || Aurora "Makani'kai" Wiater || Autumn Laurel || The Bad Barkers || Benjamin Hase || Cally Foster || Cornelia Grey || Dagrun Baarda || Derrick Elthif || Donovan Cabello || Eireann Lehr || Elmira Sassafrass || Emma Fiore || Emyr Kasabian || Ferra Bestley || Fintan Kfir || Gilroy Bleddyn || Hanalei Keets || Hilarius Winterbottom || Imogene Khale || Incana Winged Blaze || Inteus Wapapow || Iorwerth/Ylli || Ithel Conlaoch || Justina Allons || Jypsei Danzer || Kailee Glint || Kaliko || Keegan Phillips || Kendall Wendle || Kenneth Kent || Kesrel Torv || Kharn Segal || Kirsikka Solvi || Ladybird "Petal" Hornwort || Lassassasya Ashaugh Seocss || Logan "Kotori" || Lorcan Dempsey || Malakai || Margot Lemaire || Maverick Alinari || Morgan Loone || Naomi Kita || Navarre Esken || Ocarern Farwind || Oddmund Greatdrool || Oliver Cabello || Pannoowau || Peregrine Liebling || Primrose Dragoslav || Pyske Daas || Qaletaqa || Quilla Anobe || Rene Zephra || Riley "Minnow" Bellerose || Ro'or Dvorak || Rosie || Rowan Alvar || Rylan Silvanus || Segari "Errum" Ggorf || Shamira Kashi || Solanacae || Sor Avi || Squeaker || Starbright Skye ||  Tiraris Silverd'art || Tighearnán High Eoforwine || Theodore Archer || Tyler Brice || Una Ornell || Vanora Partholon || Waman Pertinacity Sewati || Weilen Brunbek || Wilbur "Wilby" Smalls || Yalwa al-Kahinah || Yasmine Fairchild || Yura Elek || Zhirai Ver || Zurna Nali
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Zane

Eli fixed his friend with a grin, non-judgemental and hopefully reassuring. "No, Theo, you aren't delusional." He spoke quietly, there was no reason to project and he'd long since come to habitually enunciate so that he and Theo could easily communicate. "You're human. You have a wanderlust. it's perfectly natural. Your kind gets antsy when grass grows under your feet for too long, that's why your shared history has always been one of exploration and expansion."

The Fae brought his hands back up to the keys and started playing the opening bars of a duet, one of the first songs Theo had taught him actually, as such, he had it pretty well memorized, after only a few bars, he looked back to Theo, who he was sworn to care for and defend, "So... have you decided when you would want to leave?"

GoblinFae

The human snorted at the very idea of him being an explorer. Distractedly he noticed what Elijah was doing and halfheartedly joined in. His thoughts though were far from what his hands were doing and the playing though beautiful on his part was nothing less than mechanical. He would have been horrified had he been able to notice what he was doing.

Theodore's thoughts and playing came to a sudden and discordant halt when his companion's words finally registered. "Leave?" he questioned in wide-eyed shock. "Is that what you said?" He laughed humorlessly. "You can't be serious, Elijah! Me leaving? As if I even could let alone if they," he jerked his hand back towards the door, "would even permit it. Now you're just having a laugh at me."
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[O.o]
/)__)
-"--"-


"No Pride For Some of Us Without Liberation For All of Us"
~ Micah Bazant ~

Spoiler
Leaderships
Tirial Province (Serendipity)

Talu Territory (Adela)

Ninja Flamingos

Guilds - Under Construction and Revamping
Blood of Ash || Cleara Verdad || The Creoptera || The Reaper's Chalice || The Runner's Society || Vigilant Shadows

Characters
Agapito Perlaceo Calogero-Marcello da Lume || Ainsley Muir || Alanna Mercer "The Lioness" || Amleah Dvorak || Ariel "Owlet" Sowa || Artorius Winterbottom || Aurora "Makani'kai" Wiater || Autumn Laurel || The Bad Barkers || Benjamin Hase || Cally Foster || Cornelia Grey || Dagrun Baarda || Derrick Elthif || Donovan Cabello || Eireann Lehr || Elmira Sassafrass || Emma Fiore || Emyr Kasabian || Ferra Bestley || Fintan Kfir || Gilroy Bleddyn || Hanalei Keets || Hilarius Winterbottom || Imogene Khale || Incana Winged Blaze || Inteus Wapapow || Iorwerth/Ylli || Ithel Conlaoch || Justina Allons || Jypsei Danzer || Kailee Glint || Kaliko || Keegan Phillips || Kendall Wendle || Kenneth Kent || Kesrel Torv || Kharn Segal || Kirsikka Solvi || Ladybird "Petal" Hornwort || Lassassasya Ashaugh Seocss || Logan "Kotori" || Lorcan Dempsey || Malakai || Margot Lemaire || Maverick Alinari || Morgan Loone || Naomi Kita || Navarre Esken || Ocarern Farwind || Oddmund Greatdrool || Oliver Cabello || Pannoowau || Peregrine Liebling || Primrose Dragoslav || Pyske Daas || Qaletaqa || Quilla Anobe || Rene Zephra || Riley "Minnow" Bellerose || Ro'or Dvorak || Rosie || Rowan Alvar || Rylan Silvanus || Segari "Errum" Ggorf || Shamira Kashi || Solanacae || Sor Avi || Squeaker || Starbright Skye ||  Tiraris Silverd'art || Tighearnán High Eoforwine || Theodore Archer || Tyler Brice || Una Ornell || Vanora Partholon || Waman Pertinacity Sewati || Weilen Brunbek || Wilbur "Wilby" Smalls || Yalwa al-Kahinah || Yasmine Fairchild || Yura Elek || Zhirai Ver || Zurna Nali
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Zane

Eli's hands fell away from the keys at Theo's abrupt reaction. His lips pursing into a tight frown. "Theodore.." He was careful to use his charge's full name, just as Theo had done for him, "You don't really think I would have a joke at your expense during this tumult of melancholia you've had these past few days, do you?" Eli took one of Theo's hands and pulled it into his lap, "Theo, my Oaths were made to you. Not your parents. Just like my father made his Oaths to your father and grandfather. If you truly wanted to leave, I would find a way to make that happen for you."

Eli brought his hands back up to to the keys and began to play a slow and haunting tune, starting in the lower register before slowly gaining momentum. During a half rest, Eli grabbed Theo's hand and pulled it to rest on the Piano, this was a song he had never played before for him. And yes, despite it's haunting melody, the cadence of the song was something surprisingly hopeful.

OOC: And then the piano exploded.

GoblinFae

Theodore sighed despondently. "What would you have me do, old friend? Would you have me defy them? Them that birthed me, raised me, took care of me in the face of illness and disability. There is only so much you can do, so much I can do before there is nothing that can be done. Giving up and possibly losing everything is not worth a spot of adventure."

His words became choked up within his throat as Elijah took his hand and therefore stole his attention to play a piece he had never heard nor seen before. He felt the vibrations of the piano through the keys and into his hand. He saw the notes, playing the ghosts of their sounds in his head as best as he could remember. Theodore slumped to the side slightly, his head coming to rest on his protector's shoulder as he allowed his eyes to close in darkening silence.
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[O.o]
/)__)
-"--"-


"No Pride For Some of Us Without Liberation For All of Us"
~ Micah Bazant ~

Spoiler
Leaderships
Tirial Province (Serendipity)

Talu Territory (Adela)

Ninja Flamingos

Guilds - Under Construction and Revamping
Blood of Ash || Cleara Verdad || The Creoptera || The Reaper's Chalice || The Runner's Society || Vigilant Shadows

Characters
Agapito Perlaceo Calogero-Marcello da Lume || Ainsley Muir || Alanna Mercer "The Lioness" || Amleah Dvorak || Ariel "Owlet" Sowa || Artorius Winterbottom || Aurora "Makani'kai" Wiater || Autumn Laurel || The Bad Barkers || Benjamin Hase || Cally Foster || Cornelia Grey || Dagrun Baarda || Derrick Elthif || Donovan Cabello || Eireann Lehr || Elmira Sassafrass || Emma Fiore || Emyr Kasabian || Ferra Bestley || Fintan Kfir || Gilroy Bleddyn || Hanalei Keets || Hilarius Winterbottom || Imogene Khale || Incana Winged Blaze || Inteus Wapapow || Iorwerth/Ylli || Ithel Conlaoch || Justina Allons || Jypsei Danzer || Kailee Glint || Kaliko || Keegan Phillips || Kendall Wendle || Kenneth Kent || Kesrel Torv || Kharn Segal || Kirsikka Solvi || Ladybird "Petal" Hornwort || Lassassasya Ashaugh Seocss || Logan "Kotori" || Lorcan Dempsey || Malakai || Margot Lemaire || Maverick Alinari || Morgan Loone || Naomi Kita || Navarre Esken || Ocarern Farwind || Oddmund Greatdrool || Oliver Cabello || Pannoowau || Peregrine Liebling || Primrose Dragoslav || Pyske Daas || Qaletaqa || Quilla Anobe || Rene Zephra || Riley "Minnow" Bellerose || Ro'or Dvorak || Rosie || Rowan Alvar || Rylan Silvanus || Segari "Errum" Ggorf || Shamira Kashi || Solanacae || Sor Avi || Squeaker || Starbright Skye ||  Tiraris Silverd'art || Tighearnán High Eoforwine || Theodore Archer || Tyler Brice || Una Ornell || Vanora Partholon || Waman Pertinacity Sewati || Weilen Brunbek || Wilbur "Wilby" Smalls || Yalwa al-Kahinah || Yasmine Fairchild || Yura Elek || Zhirai Ver || Zurna Nali
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