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I fled. I had my own shades to deal with in this seemingly nightmarish world, in this misfit paradise for the unforgiven, in this world where the blacker the soul, the more power you had. I was dancing with the other dark nymphs, tasting their bittersweet tears as they kissed my open palms with their lucious lips....I was in paradise, until I recalled an image of that strange man...one of me, yet not.