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Try the opening lines:
"In all likeliness, you shall find me dead, as a bag of skin and bones, with eyes that have turned into stone. It shall seem to you that I had been born like this, but I assure you, I too was of flowing blood and aching flesh like you."
Totally raw story about an advanced prehistoric civilisation. The pace is relentless and the characters are fantastic. I had to slow down to stay with the characters a few more days.
