As Vorpeus opened his eyes he saw a mud-covered man mired in a sinkhole who was making obscene gestures at him. He reached out a vine to try and save the man from the tentacled piranha-like beast preparing to pounce upon him but the man spurned the aid with a strange cold and shining weapon. The alien sensation of the blade sent Vorpeus into partial shock and the poison on the blade finished the job. Vorpeus fell from the tree and drifted away as the tentacles eviscerated the man he’d been trying to save
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