10/02/2026 02:15

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Just inside the door, the freezer floor wascovered in an ankle-high layer of frost--cold on knees and hands, but nowhere near as bad as thefrozen metal. It's been in frontof us for a while, and it's getting stronger. Because it isbetter than killing myself. I think it has been all but abandoned now.

I hear the metal men, !Xabbu announced. Thenfloated through to here, I guess. Her knee washurting from where she fell down at school, and now on the other leg, too. txt There is no answer, of course.