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They don't come out at night

As you lie on the ground, stifling the pain from your turned ankle, the thought comes to you that if you lie very, very, still, maybe whatever that is lumbering toward you won’t be able to find you in the fog. Can it hear you breathing or your heart pumping wildly? Was the well indeed moving, or was it your imagination. How could a pile of stones move? But you saw it didn’t you. “Be still heart.”

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