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hands had already told me what the box looked like; a
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iron bands. Inside it was a single item: A fine, steel
chain necklace, with a steel triangle suspended from it. I
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"
What happened?" prodded Phineas, the hardened
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do?"
Gelfig straightened up, xxxdvd put his arms at his xxxdvd sides.
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with it?"
Trapspringer leaped between the two, prying Phi-
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