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Summary:
Fleur's ire it's unleashed and annihilating another Vampire village, a new character's introduced and an unprecedented event takes place sooner than expected affecting Luna's and Pansy's Mating process with their lovers. And to make things worst Mariel founds out that Hermoine's father, Ventrus knows about her mistress schemes.
A/N:
This Chapter contains: Lots of Vampire info (some of it was taken directly from the Camarilla Books, and a very little was made up by me -mostly the one character-), funny moments, puns and angst at the end.
No smut or sexy, suggestive things this Chapter. It's a long one (4880 words) but I think you've earned a long chapter cause I made you wait almost 5 weeks, I am sorry, I was busy with some family matters.
"Was it fate?"
By: DeyoChan
CH XIV: THE ECLIPSE
HOGWARTS, SLYTHERIN DUNGEONS
A blonde blue eyed girl was silently staring at a piece of paper on her lap, the ink she used to write the question: 'A-Are you sure, mistress?' was long gone from being readable.
A few minutes passed before the girl got a reply.
'Positive,' was the parchment's reply, 'I felt a very strong presence in this new village, we might have to change the plan Mariel.'
"How long do we have before the curse is completed?"
'It's supposed to happen in two nights from now, but if you do your job well, I can make it happen tonight!' the cursive calligraphy wrote again, 'Do you remember your orders?'
"Yes, Mistress,"
'Care to repeat them?'
"Follow Miss Parkinson," wrote Mariel, better known as the blonde student: Katia Vólkova, "-and bring her to you after making sure she doesn't have a single weird mark on her body."
'Remember, you have to look for any birthmark that looks remotely alike to a scepter or a royal crown. It is very important you tell me as soon as you find these or the lack of them on Miss Parkinson.' Fleur said via parchment, 'Do not screw this up Mariel, two more days and you and I are going to take down those filthy Vampires.' Assures her the distant Blonde, 'We will rule them all. I promise you that.'
"Yes, ma'am." Was the last thing Mariel wrote on the parchment before it went blank again, "I will be careful."
'Go now and hurry up. Made me feel proud.'
Sighing, Mariel closes the old diary hiding it inside the old trunk at the feet of her bed.
"I hope you're okay Pansy," the blonde Mariel mumbles, "-how small is this world…I need you to forgive me before," she sighs, taking her wand, and standing up from the bed, "-why, why did you have to be one of those fucking blood suckers' Mate? Destiny's a real bitch."
Silently looking thru the window, Mariel decides to make her way outside the school and look for her target. Once she was almost outside the school grounds, she heard a couple of girls giggling about something, she was about to avoid them, but it was the mention of Pansy's name what caught her attention.
"Did you see them? They are so cute together!" the first girl asks, she was a petite chubby redhead, "And Miss Ventrue has an amazing taste in clothing!"
"I know!" the chubby girl's companion replies, "-and Miss Parkinson? She was simply amazing! So flawless, so gorgeous…" she said dreamily.
"And they even kissed! Like, fuck everyone, they kissed in the middle of the tea shop! What a KISS!" they both squealed.
Mariel frowns at the information, taking a step closer to the girls who were wearing Slytherin scarfs. 'They are…housemates? Probably from sixth grade…'
"Er, Sorry?" the blonde startles the giggling pair, asking in a very heavy accent, 'After all, I am supposed to be Russian.'
"Yeah?" The girls asked at the same time, "Do we know you…Oh, you are an exchange student!"
Suppressing the need to roll her eyes at them, Mariel smiled sweetly before asking, "Y-You were talking about Miss Parkinson?" looking at the girls longingly sigh she knew she was on the right track, "Can you tell me where was she the last time you saw her?"
Arching a brow, both girls asked, uncertainly, "Why? What do you want with her?"
"See, I need to talk to her because she's my…English tutor," she pointed at the pin she had attached to her robes, 'Koldovstoretz', "And as you can hear I need practice with my tenses and, talking."
Nodding both girls smiled at the blonde pointing in one direction behind them.
"We saw her," one of the girls started.
"-with her date." The other one continues and finish the latest's sentence.
"They were at Madam Puddufoot's Tea Shop." They say at the same time.
"And we recommend you not to-"
"-interrupt, because-"
"-her girlfriend seems a little-"
"Savage!" The girls finished at the same time after been finishing the other's sentence, "And the HOTTEST savage kind of girl if we're allowed to add!"
Blinking blankly, Mariel nods her head heading towards the direction the girls just said her target was at, ignoring their dreamy giggles and sighing.
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THE VENTRUE CASTLE
"W-What's this human talking about Ginevra?"
At Luna's statement Arthur raises a brow, he obviously didn't buy it. Squinting, the uneasy man before Luna took a step back away from her.
"I-I…S-She…-," the stuttering redheaded woman mumbles pointing from Luna to herself, "-I sent you and mother a parchment!"
Rolling her eyes amused at the red haired pair, Luna took a step forward, 'Better showing than saying,' moving aside her long blonde hair aside, pointing at the base of her mane was a mark that was clearer and brighter than the days prior.
Right there, where a pale and long finger pointed at, was the Toreador Clan's mark. The older redhead stared at the blonde's mark in awe. She was telling the truth, Luna was his daughter's true Mate.
'Oh dear Blood…that's our Clan's Mark! And…Oh Lord, by the sight of that, I can see that this girl's at the final stage of the Mating process with Ginevra!'
"See?" Luna's voice brought Arthur back from his mental journey, "I am Ginevra's true Mate," the blonde let go of her hair, smiling at the man that was staring in awe at her, "-if I wasn't, how do you explain this mark on my nec…Ompfh-" Luna was cut off by a tight hug. All she could see was a mane of short red hair in front her eyes.
"Oh dear Blood!" Arthur squealed excitedly holding Luna by the shoulders at arm's length, "It is true! My lineage is not going to be extinct! You and Ginny only has to seal the Mate's pact and-!"
Pansy's eyes went wide at the word 'lineage' and 'extinct' and 'Pact?' She mumbles as she gazed over Hermione, asking silently for an explanation, but the bookworm only smiled softly at her gesturing that she'll explain this later.
"DAD!" A very red faced Ginny shouts, "-we've been dating for a very short time and you have already dropped on Luna's shoulders our Clan's possible extinction? What's wrong with-"
"Two months next Friday." Luna deadpanned making Ginny to turn and face her, "-we…we've been dating for almost two months," she simply said smiling fondly at the surprised redhead.
"I know love," Ginny said, taking Luna's left hand in her right, kissing her knuckles, "-I have a surprise for you though,-" she started to say but was cut short by her father.
"You girls are adorable." Arthur sighed dreamily looking at her daughter and her Mate.
"Love, I like your dad." Luna giggles, "-don't worry Mr. Toreador, I will do anything in my hands to avoid your Clan's, Ginny's Clan extinction." She declared solemnly.
Ginny was ready to die when she heard Luna's statement and her father's suppressed squeal. But trying not to show his eagerness to get to know the blonde, Arthur clears his throat before adding.
"I like you too, Luna. And I am sure Ginny's mother's going to love you as well." Arthur said, pleased.
Hermione hated that she has to be the one that breaks the happy environment, but they were there for a reason…though she couldn't remember why they were there.
"Uhm, Arthur," Hermione starts, "-I'm sorry to cut your family meeting, but-"
"Can someone tell us why in hell are we here?" Pansy cuts Hermione's words with her own, "Who brought us here? What do you want with us? I mean we were talking and suddenly Miss Lovegood held me and 'Mione by the hand and-" she trailed off, thinking, "-we, somehow, end up appearing in this weird…palace like-"
"Heh, it is a Castle actually," a deep and amused voice echoed around the women and Arthur, "-I like this girl." they continued chuckling.
Startled, Hermione could feel her blood freezing on her veins. Arthur was smirking amusedly at her own daughter's reaction, very much like Hermione's.
Ventrus Ventrue was standing right behind Hermione and Ginny.
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HOGSMEADE
"What do you mean they were here a half hour ago?!" Katia Vólkova, Mariel disguised as the Slytherin blonde exchange student, shrieks at the news she was hearing from a redhead Hufflepuff guy.
"Yeah," he stutters, "-s-she, they were here half an hour ago here, they were yelling at each other before disappearing right there and-," he keeps saying, "-hey! Hey! Where are you going?!" asked the short redhead discomfited.
"I got no business here," the cold voice of Katia stated, "-get a drink or something, I need to get out of here." She grimaced when she felt his hand grabbing her wrist, "I said let go." She warned.
"Oh C'mon, at least have a cup of tea with me-" He begged.
Sighing, the blonde cups his chin with a hand whilst she mumbled something under her breath making the grinning student to immediately start sneezing like a mad man finally letting go of her hand. Taking the opportunity, Mariel or better said, Katia took her leave from the tea shop whilst she could hear the loud laughter of her schoolmates.
'Poor bastard,' she snickered, 'Though, if it had been my mistress, she would have having me killing him…it's better this way. Fuck, where are those two!?' She thought keeping a steady peace walking towards the tea shop gateway.
The blonde was almost outside the tea shop when a piece of parchment stocked underneath a wooden stool called her attention. Bending down, she takes the piece of paper proceeding to read it.
"My child. It is time. You need to come back home.
We have important information about the Dhampir; we've got information that they're the one attacking the hidden Villages of elder Vampires. You must bring your Mate with you though, I must speak with you.
Merioneh, there's no going back this time: You and your Mate need to come and lead our people against this new menace.
Ventrus Ventrue."
Mariel's eyes went wide, this was a letter addressed to 'Hermione Granger' the heir to the Ventrue Clan, and next ruler of the remaining Vampire tribes.
"I need to inform Mistress Fleur!" Said Mariel to herself disappearing from the tea shop, taking the parchment with her.
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THE VENTRUE CASTLE
Hermione and Ginny were frozen in their spots when they heard Hermione's father's voice. Both women care and respect deeply their Clan's Sire, therefore a little fear was expected, but with Hermione constantly avoids her responsibility towards her own family and not claiming her Mate as soon as she found Pansy; and with Ginny almost mimics her best friend's actions for those long years without looking for her own Mate…it wasn't strange that both Vampire women feared as much as they respected Ventrus.
"Girls," Arthur said in a serious voice, "-it was Ventrus who brought you here, we have a-" he glances over his friend and Sire, "-a very important matter to discuss with you, all of you." He stated looking at Luna and Pansy with apprehension.
"Well?" Ventrus spoke again in a delightful voice, "-Merioneh, aren't you going to introduce me to this clever young lady?" Ventrus asks offering Pansy his hand.
The raven-haired girl immediately reached for her girlfriend father's hand, smiling shyly at the look he was giving her.
'This guy's evaluating me! I can feel his gaze, looking into the depths of my very soul!'
Smirking at Pansy's thoughts, Ventrus let go of the raven-haired girl's hand turning his gaze to his daughter, "So, I see you received my note."
Nodding silently, Hermione reached into her robe's pocket looking for said parchment. Not finding it, she began to panic and casts a look over to Ginny, who was giving her a worried look.
"You lost it," the redhead woman deadpanned, "-didn't you?" Ginny rolls her eyes at Hermine's silent assent.
"Merioneh," Called Ventrus, "Why don't you and Pansy wait for me in my office?" He offers, at the arched bow Pansy gave him, he adds, "I'll explain everything to you there, I promise."
Blushing at Ventrus' charm, Pansy awkwardly nods before turning her gaze to Hermione. And this didn't go unnoticed by her Mate making the regent Vampire to stiffen a smirk.
'Oh my…Hermione's jealous of her own father! The mingle between their souls must be almost done. Good.' Arthur amusedly thought.
"Ginevra," Ventrus gently calls for the redhead woman, "Why don't you show Luna the very rare variety of flowers, animals and plants we have here?" He prompted smiling at the shocked look Luna was giving them, "Oh, yes, Miss Lovegood, we are allergic to flowers, just the ones in your world…but not to all of them."
"Come with me, love. Let me show you what our Sire's talking about." Ginny said to her girlfriend taking the hint and leaving the two men alone, "Father, we'll be back shortly."
Ventrus chuckled silently at the huff Hermione let go whilst she crossed her arms, watching Ginny walking away with Luna by her hand. Walking silently towards Ventrus' office the vampire gestures with her head towards Pansy silently pleading to be followed. The raven-haired student complies Hermione's request by walking right beside her, Ventrus grinned when he saw that as soon as the girl's skin rubs his daughter's, the stubborn vampire grabbed Pansy's hand in hers, letting Ventrus to see the smug smile that adorns her face just by the mere fact they were having some sort of skin contact. They kept walking towards the big door at the end of the hall in silence.
'This girl's very young, but I can see that she has great potential inside her…such a pure lineage. I need to help them to unleash their real potential.'
A few meters away, right in front of his office, Ventrus saw Hermione whispering something into Pansy's ear, making the teenage giggle and earning a soft kiss on the cheek before hugging the Vampire's arm before closing the office's door behind them.
"What was that?" Arthur asks to his Sire taking Ventrus out of his thoughts.
Chuckling amusedly, Ventrus answers, "That my friend," he says, now looking on Ginny and Luna's direction, who were now on the opposite side of the castle, 'The gardens', "-it's what one could call to be in love."
"I was talking about my daughter and her mate." The redhead rolls his eyes playfully making his way towards the brunette pair.
"I know," Ventrus stated walking towards his office, "-but don't tell me that you didn't feel the strong aura surrounding each couple."
"I certainly did." Arthur said, sighing, "-and I think we need to let them choose their path, my friend." Now both men were next to Ventrus office's door, right in front of a window. Nodding, Ventrus gave him a look, "I think Ginny's ready to take her destiny in her hands…I don't know her Mate very well, but I could feel that her feelings and love for my daughter were incredible."
Ventrus hummed slightly frowning, "Interesting," He said, "-I just saw right through Pansy's soul," Arthur gasped at the information, "-don't worry, I just take a look, I didn't add or removed any memory away from the girl, it's just," the elder vampire sighs, "-is it odd for me to feel worried about this feeling of uneasiness I felt deep inside Miss Parkinson? I mean, she does love and cares for my daughter, it's very sweet actually, but she's…afraid. Afraid of what she might become with Hermione by her side."
Acknowledging what Ventrus said, Arthur nods, "I think it's totally normal, she's what?" The redhead asks, "-like eighteen?" he took a guess.
"No my friend, she's just seventeen." Ventrus snorts, "Though I think you're right when you say-"
Ventrus' words were cut short by a shattering glass noise followed by a loud thud on the other side of the door startles the men.
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EDEN VILLAGE
Dying men, painful screaming could be heard all along in the unknown village where Mariel had appeared.
The once deep gray colored grass, surrounded by small trees and unknown vegetation, the same one that one long ago was so alive that was almost sad to step on it, that afternoon, the same green grass had been colored a deep crimson red color, the sky mirrored the same color. The silver moon above the sky was surrounded by a bright red line, unaware of the imminent. Burning huts, shattered houses and total annihilation of the village population, just a few vampires were still alive and the redhead could see them on the banks of a cliff.
Fleur was grinning wickedly whilst pointing with her wand to one of the village's leaders. It was just four people kneeling in front of the blonde, three men and a woman. This last one seemed anxious to fight back the wicked woman. The blonde's followers were broken, burning and destroying everything in their way, which only served to add fuel to the burning inferno that was the female Village's leader eyes.
'Oh god, they have captured Lady Hestia!' Mariel thought whilst hastening her pace, climbing the large stone steps trying to reach the small move that held the hostages kneel before Fleur.
Hestia Eden, was the woman's full name, a middle aged woman –she didn't looked older than forty five years old, with long auburn hair and deep hazel eyes, pale skin with a soft tan due to the warm sun this particular Village has to endure was looking at Fleur with hatred eyes. Apparently she had attacked Fleur, given that the blonde had a bleeding scratch on the forehead as well as a freshly repaired broken nose, and the tied and gagged Lady was sporting a purple bruise on her forehead too.
Ignoring both, the awful environment where she was walking through and the very important hostage Fleur was pointing at with her wand, Mariel finally made her way to Fleur. It took her sometime to her the blonde's attention, due to the fact that Mariel's mistress was having her fun torturing an older vampire.
"MISTRESS!"
The laughter, cheers and the encouraging whistles for Fleur to hurt the tied Vampire immediately stopped.
Fleur nods her head to one of her followers and the four older Vampires were instantly chained together with their own hands on their neck, clawing their long nails into their flesh. Mariel's eyes went wide at the action, the blonde giggled at her servant's reaction.
"Oh," the blonde nonchalantly chuckles, "-the nails on their necks? That's just a safety measure, you know in case they want to break free and attack me." Mariel awkwardly nods, "-What did you want? Didn't I tell you that you needed to be at-"
"The Camarilla's leader knows that it's you-we, the ones behind the Village's attacks!" Mariel said straight away, Fleur's eyes went wide with surprise, "-we need to move, to hide, anythin-"
"No." Fleur calmly said, "-let them get to us," she turned around to face the auburn-haired woman smirking at her, "-say, my dear Hestia, do you want me to take away your powers here or," a wicked smile took over Fleur's face, "-you know what? Forget that! I'd rather do it in front of your daughter once Ventrus and each member of his beloved Clan bend their knee before me."
Mariel went silent as was well were the people of Fleur's army. Hestia's eyes went wide at the mention of her daughter, and frantically she started to shake her head, trying to untie her hands from her neck. Giggling, Fleur waved her wand and the gag disappeared from the woman's mouth.
"Don't do that! You have no idea how this could end for you!" The woman raised her voice trying to make herself hear above the ruckus Fleur's men made, "You are a human! You can possibly be serious about-"
"SILENCE!" Fleur angrily shouts, "I will have what I want, and I need your blood running through my veins in order to defeat Ventrus and Hermione." Looking at the woman making a confused face, the blonde sighs annoyingly, "Hermione, your daughter? Oh yeah, you know her as Merioneh."
Wide hazel eyes were staring at Fleur in disbelief, "Y-You know her?"
Rolling her eyes, Fleur snapped her fingers asking for something to one of her men, "Pff, yeah, unfortunately." She said sarcastically. Finally smiling when a young woman handles her a sharp knife and a small potion vial with some blue liquid inside it.
"M-Mistress," Mariel gasps at the liquid inside of the small vial, just as large and wide as a cough syrup jar, "-is that-"
"Yes." Fleur said, walking towards Hestia, "Hold her still, do not petrifies her I need to take…a sample." she adds amusedly whilst moving her wand and ripping off some auburn hairs from the woman's head.
After that collecting the hairs, Fleur put them inside the vial leaving this opens still.
"This, might sting a little," the blonde giggled as she slides down the woman's cheek the knife she was given, "-stay still or I'm going to hurt you." She warned.
Not having space to move away from Fleur, and even if she had it, she was held by a bunch of strong man and tied town without a wand, Hestia had to put through the blonde's actions feeling how the sharp edge of the metal pierced her skin allowing her precious blood to slide down her chin.
Pleased with the red string that Hestia's body gladly provided, Fleur hurriedly brought closer the vial allowing it to catch exactly five drops of the woman's blood before closing it and kicking Hestia on the head making her fall unconscious.
"Come here Mariel," Fleur demands whilst shaking the small vial in her right hand, "-I need you to help me with this," she pointed at the vial where the old blue liquid had turned into a bright silver color.
"H-Here? Right in front of everyone?" Mariel hesitates when she sees Fleur removing her blouse, showing a blurry mark on her upper back.
"Yes, I want them to see why I am their true leader!" Fleur stubbornly adds, points at the scar there with her wand, "At the count of three I want you to pour this thing," she handles Mariel the vial, "-over the scar, it's going to be clearer and it might shine, so do it quick."
Nodding, Mariel gulps right before asking for the last time, "What's going to happen, Mistress?"
It was Fleur's turn to smirk, "Greatness my dear, it's what is about to happen." And with those final words she starts to chant the curse waiting for Mariel to pour the potion on her back.
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THE VENTRUE CASTLE
Ventrus and Arthur gazed at the sky through the window. Frowning for the second time that evening, the Camarilla's leader was taken aback by the odd change in what was supposed to be a sunny day.
"Arthur…" Ventrus said in a serious voice "-didn't we were foretold to have a hot and sunny day?"
Looking at the odd darkened clouds covering the sun, a semi-translucent full moon could be seen right aside from the sun, Arthur adds, "I guess so, why do you ask?"
"Because I feel something's about to happen," Ventrus said unable to hide his worry, "-h-have you had heard from Hest-from Eden Village?"
"What; haven't you talked to her yet?" Arthur asked, surprised when he received a negative hum from Ventrus, "You must warn her-"
"I did warn her," Ventrus hisses, "-I sent her an owl, it's just that she will rather spend her time with those half-breed Vampires!" He pointed out starting to raise his voice, "She's just another-"
"VENTRUS!" A female voice called angrily, "Be careful of how you will finish that sentence!"
Startled, Arthur immediately recognized said voice and turns around to greet them properly.
"Molly! My dear, when did you get here-" but the man was interrupted by a middle aged redheaded woman –she didn't look older than fifty years old, dressed in a black and red vintage-dress that resembled the XIX century with long and lacy sleeves.
"Shut your face, love," she warned in a soft voice caressing her husband's cheek, Arthur grinned, "-and you," pointing a finger towards Ventrus, anger back, "-you better start to show some respect for Hestia!"
"She left!" Ventrus refutes with barely contained rage. Eyes glowing red with fury, "Hestia let herself being taken away from me, from our daughter." The Camarilla leader adds in a hurtful voice.
"Hestia's your daughter's mother!" Molly retorts, "And why did she leave?!" she was starting to lose it, her purple Aura starting to leave her body in a warning manner.
Huffing, Ventrus crossed his arms, looking away from Molly placing his gaze over his office, where Hermione and Pansy were waiting for them.
"Guys," Arthur softly calls, "-could we not do this here? We need to talk to the girls first, please." He pleaded.
Sighing, Ventrus agrees, nodding his head and moving his gaze towards the window again. His frown deepened when he saw nothing but clouds and shadows outside. But what makes him shiver was the hollowness he began to feel in his very soul, like something was ripped off from it.
'No.' Ventrus though, 'This could not be happening! HESTIA!'
High above the sky, surrounded by a bunch of clouds, in front the sun was the silhouette of a full silver moon.
"An eclipse?" Arthur asks to no one in particular, "H-How…"
One thing about this weird phenomenon was that the eclipse was happening in the middle of the day, in the middle of a land that had never seen an eclipse in the last few millennial.
Just when Ventrus was about to call for his friend and wife to see what was happening outside, the silver moon began to turn black, the gray sky started to turn bright red and the clouds were completely gone in a second.
'Oh, no… the eclipse, that's the Black Moon. But, now?!'
Startled by a loud sound behind the doors, Molly quickly turned to see what was happening, she apparently hadn't caught on the phenomenon outside the window.
"Are you freaking kidding me?!" The redheaded woman shrieks in disbelief, "In your father's office, really Merioneh?" She tiredly sighs shaking her head, the redheaded woman sighs before banging on the door, "Merioneh Ventrue, I don't care how far in your… shenanigans you girls are," she raises her voice grabbing the doorknob shaking it, "I'll give you just ONE minute to fix whatever needs to be fixed there and then we're going to get into this office, time starts running now!"
Molly was looking at her wrist watch in order to keep track of the time she gave Ventrus' daughter. Lifting her gaze towards the window Ventrus was looking through made Molly hold her breath.
Arthur gaped at the sight of the unexpected event outside the Castle when a fearful voice echoed around them, thanks to an open window.
"DAD!" Ginny's frightened voice called from the gardens, "HELP! LUNA IS NOT MOVING, SOMETHING IS NOT OKAY WITH HER!"
"NO! IT CAN BE HERE!" The redheaded woman pointed at the red sky with the round full black moon on the sky.
Arthur ran towards his daughter and then Hermione's panicked voice echoed from behind the door she was with Pansy.
"FATHER! WHAT IT'S HAPPENING?!" Hermione shouts opening the office's door, "PANSY'S NOT BREATHING!"
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::TBC::
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F/N:
Hestia: It's a really cool name for a Vampire and she happens to be Hermoine's mom! I won't say anything more cuz we're about to know her story in the next chapters.
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