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    “How is he?” Kyanite asked Comrade Sergeant as he sat down next to Nationalist, who was still out cold;


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    “I can''t get lost forever.” He smiled back at Travertine, “I''ve got a nickname to uphold.”


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    “I can help it.” Travertine fit his surgeon''s bag into the backpack and put it on.


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    “good sign because it means we''re on the trail of something, or a bad sign because it means we''re not alone down here?” Travertine asked rhetorically while Immortal examined one of the bodies.


    “Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.


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    “quite what I''ve been working on, but it''s a viable prototype.”


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    “Fine.” The colonel rolled his eyes,


    “you end up here, and... weren''t there four mechanics?”


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