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What did she think about?
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other precariously piled corpses and threatening to start a charnel avalanche
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which would bury Gideon in fresh human remains.
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"OMG Gideon what are you doing!? You let it go! I swear on our eternal rotting
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"OMG Gideon what are you doing!? You let it go! I swear on the eternal rotting
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goddess, if you don't bring my body back in one piece I'll personally feed your
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fingers to the ommigrindr. I'm not bluffing!"
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@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ minutes, the gently used, previously owned, second hand flesh-houses of humans
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measured eternity as they periodically tumbled into a stinking scarab-infested
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cavern below.
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The bodies came from all over. Most were offered by devout descendants of their
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The bodies came from all over. Most were offered by devout descendants of
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lately devout worshippers of Derketo, the queen of death, fertility, and rancid
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body fluids apparently. The Emperor Undying sent a steady supply of
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'retired' slaves from the arena or the mines. The army contributed a regular,
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@ -109,19 +109,19 @@ corpus back up towards her like a yo-yo. The force of it did flick the
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morsel of dried princess meat into the air for just a second ... before it
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tumbled neatly through the aperture into the void below.
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The immortal soul of the dead princess screamed like a solstice morning
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The immortal soul of the dead princess screamed like a summer solstice
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sacrifice victim from out of the depths of Gideon's skull. Gideon hadn't
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thought her head had such impressive acoustics but the spirit of the princess
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of misery's miserable shriek was reverberating through her brain like a
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of misery's miserable shriek was reverberating through her brain like an
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amphitheatre. The linen wrap in her hand went momentarily slack as the body
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tumbled through space but then snapped taught with a sickening crack. Surely,
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the princesses body should have crumbled into dust at that shock. But no, the
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the princess's body should have crumbled into dust at that shock. But no, the
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conscientious embalmers of yesteryear must have done a good job of converting
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the petulant bitch's remains into sturdy taxidermy because it merely flexed
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slightly and held together. The same clever embalmer, bless her heart, must
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the petulant bitch's remains into some sturdy taxidermy because it merely flexed
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slightly and held together. The same clever embalmer, bless her spleen, must
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also have had the fortuitous foresight to tie the shroud tightly around
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something, probably the princesses dainty little neck, as insurance against
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exactly today's eventuality.
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something, probably a dainty little neck, as insurance against exactly today's
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turn of events.
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Gideon held firmly to the thin linen ribbon and could feel the body begin to
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swing at the other end. It was light at least. It hadn't caused her to lose
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