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How do we stop them?_ Edilio asked. He raised his head, and Sam saw the distress on his face. __ow do you think we stop them? When your fifteenth birthday rolls around, the easy thing is to take the poof. You gotta fight to resist it. We know that. So how are we going to tell kids this isn__ real, this Orsay thing?___e just tell them,_ Astrid said.__ut we don__ know if it__ real or not,_ Edilio argued.Astrid shrugged. She stared at nothing and kept her features very still. __e tell them it__ all fake. Kids hate this place, but they don__ want to die.___ow do we tell them if we don__ know?_ Edilio seemed genuinely puzzled.Howard laughed. __eely-O, Deely-O, you are such a doof sometimes._ He put his feet down and leaned toward Edilio as if sharing a secret with him. __he means: We lie. Astrid means that we lie to everyone and tell them we do know for sure.__dilio stared at Astrid like he was expecting her to deny it.__t__ for people__ own good,_ Astrid said in a low voice, still looking at nothing.__ou know what__ funny?_ Howard said, grinning. __ was pretty sure we were coming to this meeting so Astrid could rank on Sam for not telling us the whole truth. And now, it turns out we__e really here so Astrid can talk us all into becoming liars.
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How do we stop them?_ Edilio asked. He raised his head, and Sam saw the distress on his face. __ow do you think we stop them? When your fifteenth birthday rolls around, the easy thing is to take the poof. You gotta fight to resist it. We know that. So how are we going to tell kids this isn__ real, this Orsay thing?___e just tell them,_ Astrid said.__ut we don__ know if it__ real or not,_ Edilio argued.Astrid shrugged. She stared at nothing and kept her features very still. __e tell them it__ all fake. Kids hate this place, but they don__ want to die.___ow do we tell them if we don__ know?_ Edilio seemed genuinely puzzled.Howard laughed. __eely-O, Deely-O, you are such a doof sometimes._ He put his feet down and leaned toward Edilio as if sharing a secret with him. __he means: We lie. Astrid means that we lie to everyone and tell them we do know for sure.__dilio stared at Astrid like he was expecting her to deny it.__t__ for people__ own good,_ Astrid said in a low voice, still looking at nothing.__ou know what__ funny?_ Howard said, grinning. __ was pretty sure we were coming to this meeting so Astrid could rank on Sam for not telling us the whole truth. And now, it turns out we__e really here so Astrid can talk us all into becoming liars.

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Mind", can't make differences between real and not..., (OFF NOW THAT..., then that...), you are saying lie after lie..., then believing in false stuff. And thinking in positive sides so to scream not much as the other do, but as always you one moment scream you can't stop it... Now putting against me a knife and saying "Go away... give me my daughter... give me her back"..., don't you see the people laugh at you, don't you see it. Look their faces, with so many smiles, but they aren't people, they are from the army, off, off for god sake they are soldiers which have guns. Have killed few people, have taken your daughter and they are many as a number than you and your whole family... Probably this part as an General I must skip it, because it's logical however look it and from this side, nobody will sacrifice so you to be happy... you will die.. O, o, the poor little girl crying in front of the people, she just saw her mother pointing with a knife against the soldiers and now she is killed by one of the soldiers.