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| 55- Army of Hermitokratos. | |
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In the faint light of the buoys, we perceive the endless rows of Hermitokratos' army, stalling in contemplation of the ruining Fortress. So we have Proteena and the Nanobot standing in the center, Zymachi encircling them in defense... |
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...and around all the Cycledwellers. |
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The Healer approaches Proteena again, and the mnemonic string runs again from Jelly Rover to Jelly Rover. |
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Proteena is a scientist again, and she gets closer to the Nanobot, and they look at each other and touch one another, and Hu can directly see Proteena's face, even though she's almost transparent to the optical lens of the Nanobot. On one side stands the scaled model of the Mine, as if Kerenskij were among them. |
| 56- Hu's Tape. | |
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Hu contemplates the scene, then has an idea: she connects her camera to the goggles, then reverses the flow of images, from our world to the microscopic one... |
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...and from the Nanobot's lens flows as a wind the same video that Hu has shot just one day ago... |
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...with Nestis getting closer ad Kerenskij on his knees for protection, shouting something unaudible, and the whole scene is projected on the Cycledweller army, and each soldier acts as part of a retina, cooperating to restore through the Music the original images. Proteena understands that she is viewing the Mine from the outside, and then senses the light produced by Nestis sweeping Earth's atmosphere, and recalls the same phenomenon, as she experienced it just at the start of this adventure. |
| 57- Warlord into Priestess. | |

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