Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely such monstrosities only existed in nightmares? Yet I had lived through a nightmare these past months, and that was no dream at all._______I was still fighting against the awful truth, not wanting to give in, searching my mind for a logical explanation__ut there was none. And the most horrible realization of all was that I had known, somewhere deep inside, ever since the day I first set eyes on Vladec Salei._______Plague carrier._______Living death._______Drainer of life._______The phrasing did not matter. No euphemism could strike fear into the hearts of men the way that single word
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I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely such monstrosities only existed in nightmares? Yet I had lived through a nightmare these past months, and that was no dream at all._______I was still fighting against the awful truth, not wanting to give in, searching my mind for a logical explanation__ut there was none. And the most horrible realization of all was that I had known, somewhere deep inside, ever since the day I first set eyes on Vladec Salei._______Plague carrier._______Living death._______Drainer of life._______The phrasing did not matter. No euphemism could strike fear into the hearts of men the way that single word
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