The Shivering Truth2018

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But when a boy girds his hatches for a wolf attack, he lowers his guard against the true threat.

[The seashell bites Pauly's shoulder]

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Because certain fangs inject into the child a recognition that every object in the physical realm is shell for something, faintly sounding its source into the ear of the air.

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He could hear the embarrassment of things around him. He could sense how one particular pen knew somewhere inside...

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...that, due to certain circumstances, it would one day be responsible for more deaths than eight Nazi Holocausts with a side of Nagasaki.