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The iron screech of crows and the timber saw of flies putrefied the battlefield. The patina of mud, sweat and copper glistened over the valley of slop like a silk funeral shroud fit for the dead and soon to be. Hundreds of broken bodies contorted in stiff slumber waiting for the crows to take their eyes before the Beryls took their souls.
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