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and at what time. I am he decider of The short man howled as the deadly
fate my dear fellow, and your fate throne that held him captive began
is decided." The bellowing frog- to roll into a colossal precipice that
like croak of the figure in black had opened, gaping wide, like a shark
paralyzed the short man. The comfy devouring its prey, where the short
chair suddenly grew rigid; its soft, man had rested. As the short man
fluffy cushioning wrapped itself barreled into the abyss, the hole
around the short man's torso, bind- sealed itself tight and the light that
ing him to the chair. shone down on the man and the
figure in black dissipated, leaving
The chair's sprouting tendrils the hall as it had been before, dark
entangled the short man's legs and and m. usty. The man in the wh·Ite
arms, confining him to the now cal- suit reappeared back at the queue
lous and unyielding perch. of the sixth line at the sixth door.
He stood, hands clasped behind his
"What? No. What is this, some back, shoulders back and head held
kind of initiation, no, come on, high. A slender man asked hesitant-
what is going on?" The figure in ly, as he was rather bedazzled by
black drew himself up even further, the spectacles of the bizarre place
towering over the short man. Rais- he had waited so long to be allowed
ing his boney hand, he smashed in to.
his hammer down onto the pulpit,
creating an ear piercing boom that "They are all on the list; they
shook the chair in which the short await patiently the decision of their
man was imprisoned. fate. They await their judgment.
Your time is now. Please follow
"Condemned." With the utter- me." With a smile, the young ma~
ance of these words that flew like in white seized the slender man s
daggers from the mouth of the fig- arm and forced him through the
ure in black, the tendrils climbed sixth door, which had opened vi~-
into the eyes and ears of the short lently and closed behind them deli-
man, on which budded thorns that cately without a sound.
dug deep into the man's flesh.
"NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAA
A!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
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