Legend [[For YellowPerch]]

[Time_Keeper]

 

 

Name: Fuugaku

 

Age: Appears to be around 24-25, is actually well over 300 years old.

 

Gender: Male

 

Personality: Fuugaku can be described as calm and easy tempered, he usually analyzes the situation before making the remote effort to interfere. Though his eyes seem to be rather cold and distant, that doesn't mean Fuugaku is stoic or as expressive as a rock. He can be quite charming when he wants to be and knows how to manipulate any situation to his favor. With his trademark smirk decorating his features, Fuugaku is a master strategist and no one has been able to best him in literally anything during the centuries he's lived.

 

Short Bio: Fuugaku grew up in a small little village nestled away beneath the shadow of a massive mountain. He doesn't remember too much of his childhood, but he remembers that his villagers had always had a strong bond with dragons....more so a specific breed of dragon. Though its has been centuries since the last of his people died, Fuugaku carries their lessons and morals with him every day of his existence. It helps shoulder the burden of the immortality that comes with being completed bonded with a Dragon. Something that he was the only one to able to fully complete.

 

 

Name: Alu

 

Age: Same age as Fuugaku, Fuugaku raised her since she was a hatchling.

 

Gender: Female

 

Personality: Extremely protective of Fuugaku and takes no nonsense when it's around her human. Alu typically is rather calm and gentle mannered, she doesn't enjoy too much violence and would prefer soaring through the skies with her human on her back. However, she supports all of Fuugaku's choices and will stand by him to the very end of their days.

 

Breed: Feathered Ice Dragon

 

 

It had been years since Fuugaku gave humanity a real thought. Centuries since he had even considered lifting a finger to try and help save them again. Ages since he had played with the idea of what saving humanity could truly award him with in the future. He had no lost love for humanity, he didn't really care whether they lived or they died....after what they had done to his village, to his people....he honestly felt like the world would have been better off if humanity just failed to exist. In reprospect, it couldn't be denied that humanity was at the center of the fault in many of the world's problems. They destroyed everything they touched and they still had not learned to coexist with other creatures. Even those that could eat them in a heartbeat....Which was probably why they were having the problem that was looming over them now.

 

By birth, Fuugaku had been human but when he had bonded so completely with what would be his life long companion, his humanity had combined with the essence of the new energy his dragon imprinted his body with. He was no longer any ordinary human. Though his appearance didn't change, he was now stronger and faster than the average person. He could see further than any other human and his sense of smell was more animalistic than it was human. His Dragon had given him many gifts as he had taught her many lessons in life. They had a nearly immortal lifespan to waste so the two had learned and taught eachother much.

 

Perhaps that was why Fuugaku now considered humans so pathetic and almost annoying. Even before his distrust and rage against them had been born, he would have hoped that they kept the lessons he had taught them, close to their hearts. However, it seemed that the years had taken his lessons and turned them into fairytale nonsense for young children.

 

Sitting on the back of his formidable massive white feathered dragon, Fuugaku crossed his arms and looked down at the view he could only see through the "new" eyes his dragon had given him. Alu had been the first to hear a found of distress from the area they had noted the humans had begun to build their wall. Though Fuugaku would have ignored the sound, Alu had been determined to investigate it. So now here they were, watching a poor human sap take a tumble off the wrong side of the wall. As the wingless dragons crept close to the poor fool, Fuugaku felt a small hint of pity developed in his vacant heart whenever a thought of humanity came up. Shifting his weight in the feathers that secured him to his Dragon, Fuugaku peered down at the human a bit closer.

 

The man appeared to be rather young and by the smell of his fear that reached Fuugaku even all the way above the clouds they were hovering past, it was obvious that he had never been near a Dragon before. That being said, Fuugaku couldn't help to think of the man as quite foolish for having volunteered to work on building their ridiculous wall when the risks were so high. Exhaling a heavy breath the man slowly uncrossed his arms from his chest and secured his legs a bit more tightly on the long feathers in Alu's head. As massive as she was, Fuugaku felt the most safe when he was sitting comfortably on her head.

 

"Take us down, Alu. We might as well do our first good deed of the century and save that fool before he becomes dinner for those beasts" he murmured far from impressed. Gripping the feathers tightly, but not tight enough to hurt her, Fuugaku braced himself as Alu released a heart stopping screech of pure pride and strength before folding her wings tight against her sides and making a full dive towards the human and the dragons surrounding him. In seconds his Dragon had the human securely grasped in her clawed paws. Or paw should he say, it was all the human fit in. With a mighty flap of her wings that had them shooting straight up on more, blowing branches and smaller dragons into the air, Alu changed the trajectory of her flight and headed back towards their home in the mountains, no once tightening her paw or loosening it. In fact she kept it just right to make sure the human would not fall and that she would not hurt him unintentionally.

 

That had happened earlier in the morning, the day had come and gone and now Fuugaku couldn't help but wonder about his stupidity in saving the human. Yes they were back in the nestled valley between the two mountains that he and his Dragon lived in, but now they had a human here as well and Fuugaku didn't know what to do about him. Leaning back against Alu's massive flank as he sharpened his blade under the gleam to his full moon high above them, Fuugaku glanced across the fire he had built to the human he had laid on the soft grass and covered with a warm blanket. Truth be told, he was curious about the man but that didn't mean he was eager to hear the annoying questions that would come up once the man awoke.

 

"Bet you he'll be seriously shocked when he relishes exactly who saved him from his own stupidity, huh Alu" Fuugaku murmured, chuckling when his Dragon only hufffed and kept her eyes trained on the human while she curled her tail a bit closer to Fuugaku.

[YellowPerch]

 

Aoki Tomoshige

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Personality: Aoki can come off as self righteous. His feelings and goals are not intentionally harmful, he only desires to do what's write for his village. He can be very caring and sometimes to kind, leaving him with the trait to be too trusting.

 

Bio: As the eldest son of the village chief Aoki made it his role in helping the village. No matter the task he would make sure to get it done, even if it involved traveling to other villages and towns. He lived a very subtle, very peaceful life until the day came when he was forced out of his village to travel the mountains. His journey will lead him through a whole new meaning of life, one that he has never witnessed or desired so strongly before.

 

 

Aoki had always been the determined type. He had sworn from his young age he'd protect the village of any no good doers and other dangers. WHile as a child he only got laughed at by other children and giggles from mothers and fathers. Even his own mother was sure to giggle and pretend like Aoki's righteous attitude was just child's play. To show the village he was true to his word, Aoki always found himself getting into trouble with strangers passing through or with wild animals meant to be left alone. On many occasion, he'd be lifted into the strong arms of his father, the village chief and defended from the trouble he got himself into. But as the years passed and he grew older, people soon discovered they were wrong to laugh at him. At least, some of them.

 

At the age of twenty, Aoki had become a strong and noble man who protected his village much like he said he would as a child. He had protected woman from robbers, children from long falls and men from the dangers of their jobs. He had gone and studied archery under a master his father had learned from and in turn became a very successful archer. He'd have competitions at times with the men of his village and it was only once did a passerby challenge him and won. It was the first time Aoki had been defeated by a woman he never knew the name of. The days were quiet for most his life, and the village lived it out peacefully. Well, until it no longer was. Dangers came more frequently, more quickly. Soon Aoki alone was unable to muster up the stamina to protect his village.

 

Soon a wall was to be constructed, against many a man's better judgement. But those high in power and unwilling to listen forged a contract behind their backs. They demanded a wall be built surrounding their villages and towns. Aoki was uncertain of the prospects it would bring, but he had no power over many of the men who approved the project. Even his father stood no chance to them. The wall was constructed when Aoki was eighteen, and two years later still stood. It did keep out many dangers, but it destroyed many natural homes. Aoki had always cared for the forests and their gifts, but he had never shared his feelings with others, fearing he'd be laughed at again. In secret he would confront his mother about how he felt, and she would be the only one to know.

 

One day dragons had begun attacking. Beings who had once been believed in and welcomed had grown into fairy-tales and bed time stories. Aoki was also one to crowd around a cooking pot, or a small fire and listen to the elders stories of dragons. How they lived side by side with humans and how humans respected and praised the dragons wisdom. It was a frightful day when dragons had been sighted just outside their village limits, near the wall. It had made him wonder about the story his own grandfather used to tell him, of a man and his dragon. How they rid together and taught the humans how to farm and how to hunt. It made Aoki curious as to if the stories were true.

 

He chose one day to roll up his pack and saddle his horse and leave the village to find out the truth. What truth their was, he wasn't sure, but he was willing to give it a try. Once more he was laughed at, saying this adventure was a stupid whim and that he'd return in a few days hungry and thirsty, never wanting to leave the village again. In anger he rode off into the forest, never looking behind him. Not once noticing the worry in his parents faces as they watched their only son ride off to face danger much greater then he knew.

 

Aoki didn't know where to start. But the one place that was obvious to him was the wall itself. If dragons really did exist, then that would be where he'd be able to see them. It took him three days to reach the wall. He had run out of supplies, but had quickly made do with what the natural world had graced him with. His horse stood tired near a tree within its shade as it nibbled on grass and drank the bowl of water Aoki found for it. The wall was bigger then he'd expected as he peered over the side. He found nothing for as far as he could see, but nothing prepared him for what had come then. He hadn't looked straight down, not wanting to risk a fall. But the dragon below had found his scent and followed it. There it found Aoki, leaning just enough over the wall, that he would be a good target.

 

The dragon leaped into the air, catching Aoki off guard. On unstable footing, Aoki slipped off the wall, tumbling into the pit of the now three dragons that had surrounded him. He cried out in fear as he fell to the ground and hit hard. He lay motionless on the dirt, unable to fight his way back to safety. He had just enough consciousness left in him to hear the scream of a bigger creature and the shadow of another dragon tearing through the clouds and descending quickly upon he and the dragons. When he awoke next he was unable to make out exactly where he was. His head was killing him and dark shapes was all he could make out. There was one thing he heard, the crackling of a fire.

 

That meant that he was in the presence of someone else. He shot up from his laying position eyes still yet to adjust. Instantly he regretted that decision as pain swept over him and his head pounded intensely. He held his head in his hands and closed his eyes once more, groaning against the pain. Aoki was so absorbed in himself that he didn't realize the two sets of eyes that now watched him in silence on the other side of the fire.

[Time_Keeper]

Blinking when the man that they had rescued shot up to a sitting position before reaching up to grasp his head, obviously regretting the abruptness of his movements, Fuugaku exhaled a heavy sigh before chuckling out a "Well look who has decided to rejoin us in the land of the living....welcome back. I would have adviced you against making any sharp motions but you beat me to it". A calm yet distant stormy gray watched the young man under the fringe of his dark maroon, almost brown, hair before the owner of said eye made even the remote action to move from his position against his dragon's flank.

 

Placing his sword on the ground just a few inches from where he had been sitting, Fuugaku straightened away from Alu in a smooth and ever flowing motion. Bending down for just a second to grasp the handle of a old mug looking object that he had placed close to the cracklings of the fire, Fuugaku walked over to where the younger man sat and calmly leaned down to offer him the yellowiah liquid that shifted around in the confines of the mug. "This should take care of that headache you must be feeling right now. I bet it's not the most pleasant of sensations, huh?" He spoke with an easy smile turning up the corners of his lips. To anyone watching, he would have appeared the most friendly individual around had they not noted the usual cold/distant gleam to his visible eye.

 

"Mind tell me what exactly you had running around in your mind that made you think climbing the wall would be an excellent option for you. I thought your people had constructed that wall to keep yourselves in and everything out. I could be wrong, of course, but that was the assumption I was under. Being said, I can't help but doubt that your people would have condoned the act of someone climbing the wall they had taken so long to build" Fuugaku mussed as he reached out with his free hand to gently grasp the other man's chin with surprisingly soft hands and tilt it in his direction so he could get a good look at the stranger. Tilting the boy's head this way and that, after a moment Fuugaku finally flashed him a brief grin and left his chin go with a small nod.

 

"I don't think you messed up your head too badly. You're eyes look clear enough" he mussed almost to himself more than to anyone else.

 

Hearing Alu's soft huff of breath from behind him, across the fire, Fuugaku calmly eased his way back over to her side when the mug was received. Reaching up he gave her long neck a loving pat before simply collapsing elegantly back against her flank and lifting his blade back to his lap, continuing what he had been doing before their guest arrived. "I would say that you're lucky Alu and I were around the area when you had your run in with the wingless ones, but I'm sure you already know that on your own" he murmured after a moment, eye once again trained on the sharpening of his blade.

[YellowPerch]

He hadn't tried to focus on the two shadows he saw from across the fire just yet. His head nearly splitting in two made him struggle just to regain his balance from shooting straight up. But it was when a low voice called out to him did he try and focus. It took a few minutes and by that time one of the shadows was already standing. The shape of a man, a tall man, behind him that shape of....the shape of a dragon? Aoki asked himself. That was the last thing he needed. To have fallen into a pit of wingless dragons, only to have been retrieved and brought back to their lair. But the dragon stayed put, only the man making his way towards Aoki. He stabbed his large sword into the ground and walked triumphantly to Aoki.

 

Colors started making his way to his vision now. Aoki caught the bright colors of the others clothes first. And as the man bent over to pick up a mug, Aoki caught the gleam of his maroon colored hair. He watched, nearly glared at the unknown man as he picked up the mug and made his way over to Aoki to hand it to him. He had one eye visible, the other hiding behind long bangs. Aoki took the cup, however only looked into it. He took a glimpse up back at the man, piercing green eyes, with a hint of yellow, staring up at him. Aoki decided that a man willing to help him get rid of a simple headache wouldn't be up to killing him just yet. If he was even planning on it. Aoki took a sniff of the yellowish licked and nearly gagged.

 

Holding in his breath he took one large swig before coughing at the strong bold taste of it. He'd never tasted anything so strongly before, not even the medicine he took as a child made him gag like this. "I'm- I'm on a mission from my village. I'm seeking someone and I've been told past the wall was where I was going to find them." He looked at the mug again, worry creeping onto his face as he didn't think he was safe just yet. "The wall was constructed against the peoples own opinions, its a wall that I will never except. Its a cage, it will never allow anyone to go beyond it. We are kept to starve and struggle within the cages of its wood." Clearly Aoki had showed hatred towards the wall. He'd noticed over the years hunting had become harder. Meat was scarce now and fruits that once grew on trees no longer did so.

 

Aoki had fallen silent then, thinking anymore and he'd had said too much to the stranger. He had been looking down when a hand reached out and gently lifted his head up. He tensed at the contact, but as his eyes watched the one eye, Aoki noticed he was just checking him over for more injuries. He had down this same gesture to the children of his village when they got injured. Aoki looked away from the man when he let go of his chin. He had to find a way to get away from the man and his dragon...wait....Aoki's eyes widened and he shot a look at the man as he made his way back to his dragon. A beautiful dragon really, he'd never seen anything like it. And the stories he heard didn't do the dragon justice.

 

The man sat back down against the dragon and went back to sharpening his sword. Aoki was in dismay, the man he was looking for just HAD to be the man sitting in front of him now. He'd been the only human and dragon duo that he'd been told about. Aoki fixed his position and sat cross legged in front of the fire. He was not willing to move from his spot any time soon. "Alu? Your...dragon?" He questioned before asking another question. "Why, did you save me? You could have left me to the teeth of those dragons." He watched the man intensely from the other side of the fire, the orange embers giving off a feint glow that made him see more then just a human being.

[Time_Keeper]

Humming in pensive thought while he listened to the other man speak, Fuugaku couldn't help but find it ironic that after so many centuries, the humans were once again seeking him out. And this time because of a foolish mistake they had made which had caused them all more grief than happiness. Had he been the same man that he had been when he first had helped humanity, Fuugaku had no doubt that he would have easily jumped into action and racked his mind for any possible solution to provide the humans with. Now though....now he just couldn't bring himself to care. Why should he concern himself for the fate of humanity when they had taken so much from him. When they had taken all the help he had given them and thrown it back in his face with an act that had taken his own family and friends away from him. As far as he was concerned, humanity deserved everything that it brought upon itself and more....But for now he would humor this boy.

 

"Cage or not, it easily said that you all are safer on your side of the wall. Having your people venture outside of what you all constructed, against your will or not, cause burdens for everyone else on the other side. I can tell you right now that no Dragon here will welcome your presence on their lands nor will anything else that inhabits these lands. Perhaps even the person you seek will want nothing to do with you....You're people should have considered all those thoughts and provided them to you before you embarked in this little mission of yours" Fuugaku stated lightly with a cool disinterest in his tone of voice. Honestly, the "mission" this young man had gone on was a noble one but it was also quite stupid. Especially when he had clearly not been ready to face the dangers on the other side of the wall.

 

Lifting his eye from the sword to the boy sitting across the fire from him when said boy spoke with a new sort of intensity in his eyes and body, Fuugaku raised a brow at the question shot at him before briefly glancing up at Alu whose own golden eyes had narrowed just an inch at the inquiry. "Yes, my Dragon. Had she not been mine, I wouldn't be sitting against her so at ease as I am now" Fuugaku answered the first question easily enough as he lowered his eye towards the young boy again and tilted his head to one side.....almost as he was really thinking deeply as to how to answer the second question.

 

"As for why did we save you...that's a good question. Honestly, I have to say that it was more Alu's idea than mine. In truth, the only reason I agreed to it is because I felt a bit of pity towards your situation. Obviously, even from a distance, we could tell that you had no idea what you had landed yourself in and if we had let the wingless ones devour you, it would cause more problems for everyone on these lands....not just humanity" Fuugaku shrugged with his reply then once again went back to neatly working in sharpening the deadly gleam of his sword. "To be frank, we weighed all the pros and the cons of the situation before we decided to save you. Besides, your death would probably provide humanity with a ridiculous notion to have to avenge your death since I'm assuming your someone of importance to go on this mission. No one would want to have to put up with the annoyance of humanity seeking "revenge" on the creatures on this side of the wall" he finished after a moment as he lifted his sword to flip it around to its other side.

 

Pausing just before he continued his task, Fuugaku raised his eye thooughfully towards the other man and asked "Tell me something, boy, why would you come on this mission? Why are you seeking this person and what exactly did you think finding that person would accomplish?".

[YellowPerch]

It was a cage, that's all Aoki could think of the wall. It was built without his opinion. He had no say in the matter of the walls construction, therefore it wasn't his fault. So the fact that this man was giving Aoki such a third degree grew on his nerves. And the man found more amusing as he hummed away his words. Aoki narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists. "I didn't want the wall to be built. Sure it keeps us safe, but it also keeps us away from the rest of the world. Dragons....are they really all that dangerous? I've never witnessed one actually harming a human. Those could easily all be stories. I'm telling you it's a cage." Aoki loosened his grip, but he stared at the fire with determination. He needed to find a way to make the people see how wrong the wall really was.

 

Aoki was glad the man wasn't turning him away. He seemed friendly enough in answering his questions or just generally talking with him. But he needed to know for sure just who this man was. Aoki pouted just slightly at the sarcastic response to his question and could see the single eye of the man watching him from the other side of the fire. An stare that meant he was trying to figure something out about why Aoki was there. A reason as to why Aoki risked his life falling off a wall just to get over it and accomplish his mission. He leaned forward just a bit as he listened to the man answer his questions. He felt a cold rattle his bones as the man casually told him why he was saved. To be saved out of pity was something he wasn't exactly willing to hear.

 

Aoki turned away from the fire and found interest in a pebble just to his left. He reached for it and began fiddling with it in his hands, rolling it through his fingers. "I'm not that important. I'm just someone the village was glad to see leave, I'm sure. I've never been someone important to them." His thoughts weren't entirely true. As he grew older the village saw the kind of man Aoki could become. They saw a greatness in him that no one else had. But that was what made him different, easier for his peers to laugh at him. But he was someone they wouldn't want to leave the village for ever. They had grown to love him in their own way and grew dependent upon his personality and willingness to help.

 

Aoki was silent after that, and even when the other man asked his own question, Aoki didn't answer right away. Then Aoki looked back up, piercing through the embers of the fire. "The people need to see....they need to see that the wall was wrong. A world where we see differences and are not willing to live by each other is not a world I want to continue living in. But like I said, I'm not important. That's why....that's why I seek the help of the man and his dragon. My grandfather told me stories of the two all the time when I was younger. Where other kids never believed them, deep down I did. And that's why I am here now. To look for him."

[Time_Keeper]

Chuckling under his breath when the young male stated that "dragons being dangerous" could have all been just stories, Fuugaku couldn't help but wonder as to how naive the world had become since he had last made an honest effort to see what was going on with the humans he had left behind so long ago. Dragons weren't dangerous? That was as true as saying that a snake wouldn't and couldn't bite you no matter what. Rubbish. This boy would have to open his eyes sooner than later if he planned on making it through this little mission of his. If he continued on with the mindset that he was perfectly safe amongst the creatures on this side of the wall, then Fuugaku doubted that the boy would be able to survive a single night on his own without being looked out for out here.....Which he supposed was kind of bothersome.

 

"Believe you me, boy, dragons are just about as dangerous as things come. They're not something you want to find yourself stuck near for any long period of time if you don't know what to do in said situation. Trust me, I speak from experience. I wouldn't have this if it weren't for a foolish mistake I made in my youth" Fuugaku responded calmly lifting a hand to swept his bangs away from the side of the way they were covering. Below the maroon strands lay a beautiful decorated eyepatch that was big enough to cover a larger portion of his face than just where his eye was. The designs in the material were golden laced and unique but nevertheless, it was still an eyepatch.

 

"Unless you have the knowledge as to how to keep yourself safe around creatures large and small or unless you have the extremely rare opportunity to be bonded with a Dragon....you don't want to face those creatures alone. It's not the smartest decision out there" he added after a moment, quickly flickering an amused little grin in the boy's direction while setting his sword aside and comfortable leaning further back against Alu's flank.

 

Observing the boy speak about how the village viewed him, Fuugaku couldn't help but raise his visible eyebrow and disbelief and cross his arms over his chest. "I find that just a bit hard to swallow. If you were as much as a burden in your village as you're making it seem, I'm sure they would have been done with you a long time ago. In fact, I'm sure your little village is more than likely missing you right now...even if you can't bring yourself to believe it yourself" the man spoke, tone never raising or shifting from those even and easygoing levels. Maybe it was because of how long he had lived or maybe it was because of everything he had seen so far, but Fuugaku found that he read people a lot easier than when he had just started his journey. It wasn't always simple but he had grown used to solving even the most complex of people. In terms of how the village felt about the boy, it wasn't too hard to figure out if he had made it this far without being chased off by angry villagers and there was no years of angst or sadness in his eyes.

 

"That is a noble cause for what it matters...but honestly what do you think this man and his Dragon could do for you? As far as I can see, the problem you have on your hands is something for your village to resolve. You did bring it upon yourselves after all. What makes you think that the man you're looking for would even want to help. It seems kind of like a boring request on my end, not very interesting in the least. And it's not something I think anyone in their right mind would want to exchange their peaceful existence for" Fuugaku commented with a light shrug, eye never leaving the man sitting across the fire from him.

[YellowPerch]

He wasn't going to lie, Aoki felt a little surprised about the abrupt way his words were warded off. That dragons could be truly dangerous was something Aoki couldn't understand. Of course him not grasping that situation all fell down to the village being subjected to its own ways and it's own pace behind the wall. Aoki wanted to respond to the mans remarks, by upon turning to face him, Aoki was shocked to see the fabric that made up the eye patch covering his hidden eye. The colors were extraordinary and left him speechless. As soon as the man covered it with his hair once again, Aoki snapped out of his somewhat trance and looked back at the fire.

 

We're the man's words true? Was Aoki as oblivious to the outside world as he feared to be? What could happen to him if he ventured out alone? Intent on trying to bring about peace into the world. Into his world. Aoki sighed and played with his pebble some more as the man leaned further into his creature's flank.

 

He thought the man wouldn't respond to his comment about the village and became angered at his choice of words. "Someone who stays to himself and ignores the happenings of this world wouldn't understand my position. It's suffocating in there." Truth be told, only Aoki saw his demise within the village. He grew to think the people of his village wouldn't accept him for who he was, for the things he believed in as a child. He watched them hide things from him, but in the end they hid their feelings well. He could tell something was going on. But to another, the village seemed like any other.

 

The air turned quiet for some time. Neither saying a thing. It was the man who broke it first when he answered Aoki with his own questions of the situation. Aoki had to admit he wasn't quite sure what the man could do to help. He just knew he had to try and do something about it. Aoki looked at the man and turned away with a mocking snicker and saddened eyes. "To be honest...I don't know. I left hoping I could just find the man. I've been trying to come up with clever words to say to him since I left, but..." he gave another sneer of a laugh. "Who knows what I'll say to him now. I mean, who knows if I'll even find him at this rate. Seeing how, I won't survive if I continue on the way I have."

 

 

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