{"id":5087,"date":"2026-01-04T01:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-cloud-warrior-saga-03-changed-by-fire-holmberg-d-k\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:06:14","slug":"the-cloud-warrior-saga-03-changed-by-fire-holmberg-d-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-cloud-warrior-saga-03-changed-by-fire-holmberg-d-k\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud Warrior Saga 03 -Changed by Fire – Holmberg, D K"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Warrior\u2019s Plan<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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S<\/span><\/span>moke hung<\/span> low over the valley like nothing more than an early morning fog. Had it not been for the stink of charred bodies\u2014lives Tan had watched burned alive\u2014it might have been peaceful. Perched on an outcropping of rock, he looked down on the lake. Clear water tinged with the hint of green spilled down from the wide river flowing from the mountains, emptying into the lake below. Tall pines and oak trees lined the lake, though fewer now than before the attack.<\/p>\n

If he focused and stretched his sensing out and around him, he could still feel fires burning on the edge of the lake in places the water elemental nymid could not reach and extinguish. The great earth elemental golud could not be moved to extinguish the fire. The wind elemental, ara, flittered through the air, barely enough to make its presence known, careful not to stir up any embers, knowing the danger were the twisted fire from Incendin shapers to rekindle. Only the draasin, the great winged fire elementals, did not fear those flames.<\/p>\n

Here, in this place of convergence, all the elementals mingled.<\/p>\n

Even spirit, though calling spirit required more effort than the others. And spirit had been the reason this place had experienced what it had.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow long will you sit here?\u201d<\/p>\n

Amia stood over him, early morning sunlight catching her golden hair so that it nearly glowed. The narrow band of silver around her neck\u2014the mark of her people\u2014seemed wider than he remembered. Had bathing in a pool of liquid spirit changed it? She pulled a long, grey cloak over her shoulders, leaving the hood to fall around the back. It took him a moment to realize where she had found it; the dead archivist wouldn\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just thinking,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

He felt her concern through the shaped connection between them. The shaping had come on accidentally, made by a spirit shaping placed on him by Amia in a time of great need as they ran from the lisincend. It was stronger now, especially after what he had done to save her.<\/p>\n

Amia crouched on a rock next to him. \u201cI wonder if we will be able to find this place again when we leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan nodded. He hadn\u2019t been certain he could find this place again either, but the draasin had known. \u201cAsboel can find it, but I\u2019m not certain he wants to return after what he\u2019s been through here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing, isn\u2019t it, the sacrifice they made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan turned to her, tearing his eyes off the lake. \u201cDid you know? When you went into the pool of spirit the first time, did you know what this place could do?\u201d<\/p>\n

Amia inhaled deeply. \u201cI sensed the importance of the other elementals, but it was not the same as this time. Maybe because the draasin had already departed?\u201d She pushed strands of golden hair behind her ears. She leaned against him, resting her head on his shoulder. \u201cThis time was different. Until you healed me, I couldn\u2019t sense anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her contentment came through the connection. Amia would stay here with him as long as he wanted, but she understood he could not stay. Not knowing what he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much to do,\u201d he whispered. \u201cI\u2019m\u2026 I\u2019m not certain I can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amia pressed her palm up to his chest. \u201cYou might not be certain, but I am. You\u2019ve stopped Incendin twice already.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDid I? The first time, the draasin stopped Incendin, hunting the lisincend to keep us safe. And the last time\u2026 had it not been for Lacertin appearing\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

A shout rang up from the valley, interrupting them, and they both turned. One of the shapers had found something.<\/p>\n

Amia grabbed his hand and started down the slope. She moved quickly and easily, hurrying down the side of the rocks. Tan followed her, using earth sensing to find the safest way down.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of the valley, Master Ferran stood over a fallen body. Ash covered the body\u2019s face and fire streaked through his chest, but Tan recognized him all the same: the archivist who had attacked during his rescue of Amia. The archivist he\u2019d killed\u2014or thought he\u2019d killed.<\/p>\n

A low groan worked from his throat.<\/p>\n

Ferran stood over him. Earth swirled up and around in a controlled shaping, trapping the fallen archivist and preventing him from moving.<\/p>\n

Next to him, Amia performed a shaping. Tan felt it as pressure building behind his ears, a soft and steady buildup that she slowly released, easing out in her shaping.<\/p>\n

The archivist convulsed softly, his back arching into the dirt. His eyes flickered wide before turning and looking up at Amia. A dark laugh escaped his lips. \u201cYou,\u201d he spat. \u201cYou should have been the one sacrificed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan started toward him, boot already moving to kick the man. After what happened with Amia\u2014how the archivists had nearly killed her\u2014he felt a certain crazed anger. Amia held him back, sending a soothing shaping of spirit through him to calm him.<\/p>\n

He took a deep breath and relaxed, lowering his foot.<\/p>\n

Master Ferran watched. \u201cI found this one when searching through the wreckage. I did not expect to find any living.\u201d His eyes darted over all the damaged wagons, destroyed by water and fire during the attack. More Aeta, fallen because of Incendin desires.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe shouldn\u2019t be,\u201d Tan said. \u201cI thought I\u2019d killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The archivist grunted and thrashed. Tan turned to him and crouched down before him. Any empathy he might have felt for the man faded as he remembered the painful scars down Amia\u2019s back. The time in the pool of spirit had healed them but didn\u2019t take away the memory Tan had of what the archivists had done to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would you do this to your kingdoms?\u201d Tan asked.<\/p>\n

The archivist laughed and turned his head toward Tan. A pointed nose stabbed at the air. Spittle and blood coated his lips. A deep gash split his forehead. Without healing, he would not survive long. \u201cMy <\/i>kingdoms? You think I can claim these lands?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan glanced at Amia. The archivists were descended from the Aeta, but could they be more than that? Could they be <\/i>Aeta, not merely their descendants? But why would they have attacked Amia? What would have motivated them to hurt one of their own? What could Incendin offer that would entice them?<\/p>\n

He leaned close to the archivist. \u201cYou won\u2019t harm her again. You will never harm her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The archivist looked up at him with eyes that alternated between glassy and clear. In one of the moments of clarity, a dark smile twisted his mouth. \u201cYou might control much power, Warrior, but you are untrained. And there is much you don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n

His laughed continued. \u201cIt is too late for that. Now that we have the artifact\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you don\u2019t. Incendin has the artifact. The archivists have fallen, dead and gone. You have failed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The archivist blinked. \u201cFailed? The plan is only now in place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan frowned. \u201cWhat plan?\u201d<\/p>\n

The archivist coughed. Blood burbled to his lips.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat plan?\u201d Tan repeated.<\/p>\n

The archivist gasped one time and then breathed no more.<\/p>\n

Tan crouched next to him, eyes closed. A hand gripped his shoulder and squeezed. He opened his eyes and turned to Amia. \u201cCould you tell what he meant?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a spirit shaper. I can\u2019t tell anything from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan stood slowly and wiped his hands on his cloak. What could the archivist have meant? What plan did they mean?<\/p>\n

Too much remained uncertain. The archivists could have shaped the king. Incendin had the artifact\u2014and a new, twisted lisincend. And the draasin were in danger. Where did he even begin?<\/p>\n

Ferran shifted his attention from Tan to Amia. \u201cWhen I first met you, I thought you exaggerated what you went through. If anything, you underestimated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The master shaper had taught one of the earliest classes Tan tried attending, but he hadn\u2019t believed what Tan said about the lisincend, and he certainly hadn\u2019t been willing to teach. \u201cDoesn\u2019t change anything, does it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does not.\u201d With that, Ferran turned and left Tan and Amia standing with the lifeless body of the archivist.<\/p>\n

They stood for a moment until Tan could no longer tolerate the proximity to the fallen archivist. Amia took his hand and led him away, back to where the ground sloped back toward the cavern. As much beauty as there was in having all the elementals converge, part of him hated this place. Each time he\u2019d been here, he\u2019d nearly died.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome good has come from here,\u201d Amia said, reading his thoughts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe draasin. You.\u201d Tan stared at the valley and the rocks where he\u2019d once died. If not for the nymid, he would have been gone. Amia would have been gone. \u201cOther than that? I\u2019ve nearly died here twice. If not for the draasin, I would <\/i>have died here twice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou really think so little of what you did?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin stood behind them. He wore a short sword with runes carved along the surface, nearly a twin of the one Roine carried. A warrior\u2019s sword, one only those capable of shaping all the elements could carry and use. He was dressed strangely for the kingdoms in pants of deep red leather and a black jacket buttoned tight across his chest. Hard lines worked around the corners of his eyes.<\/p>\n

How had he appeared without Tan sensing him? Earth sensing was his strength. He\u2019d spent years climbing mountains like these with his father\u2014a man he only recently learned was an earth shaper\u2014learning to stretch his sensing so that it became easy. Somehow, Lacertin still avoided detection.<\/p>\n

Tan stood, putting himself between Lacertin and Amia.<\/p>\n

\u201cLacertin. I thought you\u2019d left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin considered Tan with an amused smile. \u201cTheondar would like it if I left,\u201d he agreed. \u201cAs would the others, I think. But this place is not theirs to defend. As shapers, they recognize that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you want from me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan asked it with more agitation than intended. He should<\/i> be thankful. Had Lacertin not arrived, the Incendin shaper likely would have succeeded and they would have been destroyed. But it was hard thinking of him as anything different than the warrior who had led the lisincend into the cavern after the artifact. Could they really forgive him for what he\u2019d done?<\/p>\n

Lacertin looked at him askance. \u201cWhen you stop thinking others have power you do not, you will be formidable, Tannen.\u201d He smiled. It appeared forced, stretching the corners of his eyes even more. \u201cBesides, you alone in the kingdoms recognized that it was not simply the draasin attacking, but that Incendin was behind the attack as well. Had the kingdoms succeeded\u2014had they destroyed the last of the draasin\u2014Incendin would be one step closer to their end goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou knew what they were after?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot at first, but Incendin has records dating back nearly as far as the archives at the university. As I had seen both\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Amia looked from Tan to Lacertin. \u201cWhat is Incendin after?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve already seen it,\u201d Lacertin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe twisting of fire?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey wish to connect to fire more directly. That has always been their goal. From the first of the Incendin to this\u2026new creature. They claim the shaping allows them to serve fire more directly. And that is what Fur tells the king. But even Fur must serve\u2014not control, not like the draasin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amia\u2019s eyes grew dark the way they did when she was troubled. \u201cI still don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIncendin wanted the draasin destroyed, but not because they attacked the lisincend,\u201d Lacertin explained. \u201cThere was another reason, a reason they were willing to risk a bargain with spirit shapers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the draasin were destroyed, another elemental would replace them,\u201d Tan explained. \u201cI found records of it in the book I took from the archives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the other fire elementals are saa and inferin. They\u2019re almost too weak to be considered lesser elementals,\u201d Amia said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich was Incendin\u2019s plan all along,\u201d Lacertin said.<\/p>\n

The archivist said the plan was in place. Could that really be it? Had they worked with Incendin to displace the draasin? But for what reason?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has to be a greater elemental,\u201d Tan answered. \u201cWhen I stood in the pool of spirit, that became clear to me. They have not always been static. Even the udilm have weakened over time, with the nymid growing stronger as the kingdoms were claimed from the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin studied Tan. \u201cHow is it you know? It took me years of studying to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI found it in the archives,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

He considered telling Lacertin more, explaining the book on the draasin he\u2019d come across in the race to escape the Incendin fire shaper and the archives, but how much should he trust Lacertin? After everything he\u2019d heard of him, could <\/i>he trust him?<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch of what is written in the archives is done in Ishthin<\/i>.\u201d Lacertin waited. When Tan didn\u2019t say anything more, he chuckled. \u201cEven knowing what I do, you still surprise me, Tannen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amia looked at Lacertin. \u201cAre you implying the lisincend sought to become one of the elementals?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin took a deep breath. \u201cIt is the artifact,\u201d he began. \u201cA creation made by the oldest scholars and likely with the best intentions, but it is apparent there were other uses for its power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is it? What does it do?\u201d Tan asked. \u201cAnd how is it you know so much about the artifact?\u201d Roine suspected it allowed the user to communicate with the elementals, but Tan thought that unlikely to be the only reason. If that were the case, the ancient warriors would not have placed such heavy protections around it.<\/p>\n

Lacertin motioned toward the rock and raised his eyebrows as if waiting for Tan\u2019s approval. Tan stepped to the side, letting the warrior pass. He stood atop the rock, staring out over the valley, looking from the lake to the trees and finally to the sky.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have spent the last twenty-five years trying to understand the artifact. It was the last assignment given to me by King Ilton before he passed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan blinked. \u201cYou were serving the king all this time?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin\u2019s face hardened and his body stiffened. \u201cI have never stopped serving the king. Everything I have done has been at his command.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when he died\u2026 what they claim you did\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a way, all of it was true. I entered the king\u2019s chambers after his passing. I went to Ilianna\u2019s quarters. I tried to convince…\u201d Lacertin trailed off and shook his head. \u201cIt no longer matters. Not after all this time. Only reclaiming the artifact matters. The ancient warriors knew they needed to protect it. That\u2019s why they placed it here. But there must have been another reason for placing the artifact here, in this place of convergence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does the artifact do to the elementals?\u201d Tan asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do you think it does something to the elementals?\u201d Lacertin asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the only reason I could think why the ancients would need to protect it so well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cProtect,\u201d Lacertin agreed, nodding. \u201cIt was protected here, kept from us until one with the ability to shape spirit recovered it.\u201d He watched Amia. \u201cBut once, such an ability was not uncommon. Once, the ancient warriors could shape all the elements, including spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan frowned as he began to understand what Lacertin implied. \u201cThen it wouldn\u2019t have been protected at all. At least, not from the warriors of that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been protected. Think of how difficult it was for you to reach it. Had you not been enabled somehow\u2026\u201d He waited, as if expecting Tan to reveal how he\u2019d managed to slip past the barrier the first time, but Tan would not share the secret of the nymid, not with Lacertin, who smiled anyway. \u201cAs I said, had you not been enabled, it is unlikely you would have managed to reach the artifact. You have potential, Tannen Minden, but you are no warrior yet. And none of us is anything like the warriors of that time. But even to them, passing through the protections around the artifact would have been challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan thought about how the Incendin shaper tried to reach the pool of spirit. That must have been why they wanted Amia, though as a spirit shaper, the archivist would have been equally able to reach it. What could they have wanted with the pool of spirit?<\/p>\n

What use could they have for spirit at a place where the elementals gathered?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you think it does?\u201d Amia asked.<\/p>\n

Lacertin turned toward the mountain peak, the place where the protections once hid the artifact, a place he had once battled Roine and then the Incendin shaper. \u201cA place of convergence,\u201d he repeated. \u201cA place where pure spirit can be found. I have found no other place like it in all my years. For all I know, there is no other place like it, where spirit burbles from the ground, summoned by the great elementals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan noted how he emphasized the word summoned<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And he thought about what the world might have been like one thousand years ago. It was a time when shapers were more powerful, when many spoke to the elementals\u2014learned from them. It was a time when the draasin still roamed and, at times, hunted. Most of the ancient warriors feared the draasin, and for good reason. But Amia had shown a way to control the draasin, to shape them.<\/p>\n

Had she only been able to do so in this place? Was that why the archivists could only twist her shaping, not recreate it?<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes the artifact control the elementals?\u201d he whispered.<\/p>\n

Lacertin met his eyes. \u201cThat is my fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Incendin has it now. The lisincend\u2026 or whatever she is\u2026 took it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we should fear what they will use it for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout access to spirit, is there anything they can <\/i>do with it?\u201d Amia asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. As I said, the artifact is not well documented. I found what I could in the archives of Ethea. Incendin kept their own records from a time before they separated from the rest of the kingdoms. Between the two, I still couldn\u2019t find what I needed. There might be more, but I could not discover it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan thought of the lowest level of the archives, the place where he and Roine had found the dead archivist, rooms where no shaper could reach. Could the archivists hide additional records there? If so, it made sense that Incendin would want to work with the archivists, or at least make a show of working with them. Now the oldest of the archivists were dead. How many remained who knew the answers?<\/p>\n

\u201cDo they need spirit to shape more of\u2026\u201d Tan trailed off, uncertain what word to use to describe the creature. She wasn\u2019t a lisincend, at least not like Fur or the others. She was something different, twisted in an altogether new way. A threat to the draasin.<\/p>\n

Lacertin nodded slightly. \u201cA form of spirit has always been needed to create the lisincend. It is why the Aeta refuse to travel too deeply into Incendin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan shot Amia a look. When he first met her, the Aeta had returned from Incendin after risking a deeper run. Had the Mother known the risk?<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do they use spirit?\u201d Amia asked. Her voice lowered to a whisper.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a secret Fur kept closely guarded. Only those willing to make the change\u2014Embrace Fire, as they called it\u2014were given the secret of the shaping.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought not many succeeded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin nodded. \u201cFailure is high. Those who don\u2019t succeed are considered unworthy to fully embrace fire. It is why the lisincend are so revered within Incendin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDid that shaper know the secret?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. Alisz sought to embrace fire for nearly a decade, but Fur always refused. I think he sensed in her too much like him, one who might eventually challenge him for supremacy over the lisincend. Even after he was injured, he still didn\u2019t share that secret with her, though he did with several others, none of who succeeded in embracing fire.\u201d Lacertin frowned. \u201cHow did she transform?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan wished he could forget what she\u2019d done, but the image burned into his mind. \u201cShe used the artifact. She\u2026 cut\u2026 the archivist, and he bled into that bowl of hers. Then she used his blood in some shaping. I thought it was the same as Fur used.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin\u2019s eyes closed as he considered. \u201cPerhaps she learned more of the shaping than I realized. Alisz has always been dangerous, even for a fire shaper. And now\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow she\u2019s more than even one of the lisincend, isn\u2019t she?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems she drew her inspiration from the draasin. Perhaps that was where Fur went wrong, thinking to shape himself into something more akin to saa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin made a point of meeting Tan\u2019s eyes. He wore a hard expression, but mixed with it was pain. Tan couldn\u2019t help but wonder what he had seen while in Incendin. What must it have been like, being so close to the lisincend?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou understand why I must return?\u201d Lacertin asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you don\u2019t. You\u2019ve shown that you don\u2019t work for Incendin. You can return to the kingdoms, help fortify the barrier\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin shook his head. \u201cThe barrier will fall if it hasn\u2019t already. That has always been the plan, the reason so many are taken from places like Doma and Chenir. Even after all the time I spent in Incendin, they kept them from me. I know little of what they do\u2014or their strength\u2014but with enough numbers, they can overwhelm the barrier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s held for so long!\u201d Amia said. \u201cEven my people recognize the value of the barrier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin turned and stared again over the valley. \u201cLike so much else before it, the barrier will fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you be so certain?\u201d Amia asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I helped build it in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat will you do?\u201d Tan asked. \u201cIf you won\u2019t return to the kingdoms, what then?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacertin sighed. \u201cThe kingdoms were my home for many years. Ilton was my king. Althem?\u201d He shook his head. \u201cHe is nothing like his father. He thinks to use those around him and refuses to listen. No\u2014I can\u2019t return to Ethea even were I to want to. Besides, there is much I have yet to do. Which is why I need your help, Tan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan frowned. \u201cWhat do you think I can do? I\u2019m no warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, you are more than a warrior. And you are not pledged to Althem, freeing you to do what is needed. The kingdoms have<\/i> a warrior who serves willingly, though he might call himself by another name. Theondar would have failed. Yet you, a boy with minimal shaping, managed to handle Incendin not once, but twice. I think you are exactly what I need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan started to shake his head, but he couldn\u2019t deny the truth. He might have shaping skill, but that was not where his gifts truly lay. He could speak to the elementals. And they answered his call. Without the elementals, everything would have been lost.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is it that you plan?\u201d Tan asked.<\/p>\n

Lacertin fixed Tan with his stare, his back turned on the kingdoms. \u201cThe barrier will fall. When it does, Incendin will attack. Their shapers may be weak, but they have more of them than the kingdoms. As long as there is the threat of the lisincend, those stolen shapers will answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tan blinked. \u201cYou plan to go into Incendin and attack the lisincend?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I don\u2019t\u2014if no one does\u2014there is a real possibility that the lisincend will succeed in their plan. And if they become one of the greater elementals, there is no stopping Incendin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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