Hello everyone, I've just looked over my Fanfic and yes... I know my style was differant at the begining but that was just the foundations before my gears got oiled, but please remember it is my first fanfic, I'm sure those of you whom are reading at home will understand, anyway... this chapter should remind you of your times in Highschool gym or at the least remind you of some classic experimentation used in Gym or work out scenes, anyway... read and enjoy.

Taming Kestrel chapter 28:

- IS academy/ athletic track and field/ 09:10am -

Ichika, Kestrel and the entire gang line up outside the IS academy, in front of them, the sight of a large round oval running track - Olympic game stadium style 'only smaller of course!'. In the Center of the oval surrounding track, dead center, is a large green patch with individual areas for shot put, hammer throw, javelin, pole vault, long jump and triple jump. One thing is for sure, Ichika is grateful for getting a good night's rest, because today, he'll definatley need it. Although the IS academy is an area for IS training, the rule of keeping the students active, healthy and up to shape is all to true, though for Ichika and the gang it should be no problem, it will be like being back in highschool. Though for Laura and 3 of her German female visiting friends, it will be a walk in the park - After all, Laura and her friends are military trained, so its very likely that Laura and the Germans will run rings around everyone today. The main attire worn by the mass numbers of IS schoolgirls is the same, blue body tight IS flight suits that are used for IS piloting. Ichika and Kestrel's IS flight suits look exactly the same, { Please remember that }.

For today's early morning lesson of running around and keeping fit, the tutor is non other than the athletic P.E teacher Miss Kitami. { She's a made up character like Yui and Tomoe }. The P.E teacher coming out onto the field to greet the 40 differant students in a body tight IS flight suit. The flight suit easily shows the curved woman's abbs and muscle toned arms and thighs. Miss Kitami's short, light blue tomboy'ish hair is a perfect match for her goofy, friendly, yet serious playful face. Some students cast disgusted looks at each other as they see their P.E teacher happily jog up to them.

Despite being a woman, she has a lot of students that grumble or wish badly of her, which is probably due to her long lessons that draw out nearly every ounce of strength and living breath out of nearly every single student. Ichika is familiar with Miss Kitami's hardships, and understands the anger felt by many students, the only students happy or accepting of the woman is mostly just Laura and a few handfuls of other random IS schoolgirls. "Okay you lot! Great to see y'all could make it out here this mornin'!" - Miss Kitami shouts with a proud and cheerful expression her face. The tomboy'ish teacher even holds an arm in the air as if she is celebrating victory, but most students just look at the short haired teacher with unamused looks. As the short haired woman lowers her arm, sticks out her chest and looks at her students with eagerness, the feeling of fear and dread strikes not only Ichika, but every other IS student in the gut.

Ichika has heard a lot of dam'nations to hell cursed upon the teacher by most of the students, but deep down Ichika can't refuse the possibility that Miss Kitami probably does not mean any harm and is just over the top towards her students, but Ichika can't speak against the truth that he himself has wanted illness or some form of bad omen to fall upon the teacher on many occasions.

"Okay y'all, today I want to divide you into six differant teams, so when I call your name, I want y'all to form in a line in front of me!". The tomboy'ish teacher explains while pointing to the ground directly in front of her. The teacher holds in her right hand a clipboard with a pen fixed on a small piece of thread on the top part of the black, plastic sheeted board. Many students tense up and look at each other with fearful looks, each and every one nervous and dreading what 'Torture' was laying in wait for them. Ichika himself cringed a little at the very thought, the japanese boy always got the rough side of humiliation from the tomboy'ish teacher, even if it was merely in a form of showing Ichika's weaknesses in sports, Ichika always felt the sick at the very mention or thought of having to work with the short, blue haired woman. Miss Kitami is an attractive woman, she looks very young despite being in her late thirties, but in the end many of the students in her lessons become to embroiled in hating the woman's possible sadistic side, rather than her nice attractive looks.

Cecilia is proof of hating the blue haired woman but scowling and hissing at the woman through clenched teeth. Charlotte's face has a nervous image, which shifts to a panic stricken look when she is called forward by miss Kitami. Laura on the other hand has an eager and calm expression, miss Kitami was very fond of Laura and always has the look of pride when calling her forward, and it was clearly evident that Laura was proud of being called forward, it was made evident by the silver haired girl strutting forward, her face full of happiness and pride. As the moments passed, Ichika looked down at Kestrel and stared at the child with a deep look of pity. Ichika had a single thought running through his head, ( "I can't bear to think of the pain she'll inflict on me, but if she goes to far on Kestrel today, I WILL tell her!" ). Ichika frowns in a serious moment looking forward, though he is nervous and tense as to what is going to happen today, the good hearted Japanese boy is hell bound on looking out for his small and timid Israeli friend.

Then... as expected, Ichika is called forward. Swallowing a gulp, Ichika raises his head, and confidently walks forward. What greets Ichika is a line of schoolgirls in six differant lines, Ichika notices that Laura and Cecilia is at the head of two differant lines, Laura has the look of pride and excitement while Cecilia looks like she is about to cry with frustraition. As Ichika turns his head to look forward he notices miss Kitami pointing to a line with its lead girl having long, curly brown hair. As Ichika walks down between the lines of females, he notices Charlotte in the line opposite his, the French blonde sends Ichika an awkward look.

Ichika smiles back in an awkward manner before getting to his destination behind a short black haired girl with a braid, though Ichika is uncomfortable about miss Kitami, he is also nervous about the fact that girls in his group are going to stare, whisper and swoon over him, its happened many times over and as a ressult makes the Japanese boy always want a partner whom he knows in his group. The Japanese boy's heart beats in a highly nervous state as he notices the many differant IS schoolgirls in his team blush and turn their heads in a lovey dovey manner towards him.

Ichika however manages to shake off the moment and look forward in desperate hopes that Houki will be the one to join his group, as the remaining schoolgirls are selected and brought forward to their respectful lines, Ichika's heart beats nervously, he even holds his breath in a hopeful prayer that god or some other devine force will grant his wish, but... fate proves to be against Ichika. As Houki is sent over to Laura's line, Ichika closes his eyes and looks down on the ground, the stress and frustraition nearly makes Ichika start crying or scream in stress.

However, Ichika's disapointment suddenly changes to a moment of happiness as little Kestrel is directed over to Ichika's line. For Ichika, the sight of his little Israeli friend walking over to his line nearly makes him cheer or clap in happiness, as much as Ichika hates to admit it, Kestrel will be an antidote to his girl trouble for todays P.E lesson, but today's antidote will have a differant meaning... most of the time when Ichika has Houki or any of the others he follows directions, but with Kestrel... Ichika will have a chance to lead his little Israeli friend, have a reason to ignore any lovey dovey waves or winks from the schoolgirls and instead focus on leading an example for his traumitised Israeli friend.

As Kestrel calmly walks down the lines of stareing schoolgirls, Ichika sends the child a warm and comforting smile. Kestrel merely blinks and tilts his head at Ichika in a form of confusion, then as Kestrel walks behind the last female in Ichika's line, miss Kitami turns round and looks forward as the last remaining girls take their places in their respective lines. Then, Ichika and the others are snapped away from looking at the thin and very adoreable looking Kestrel by the sudden and loud voice of miss Kitami "OKAY! You lot better give your all out there today! I expect to see some sweat come off you all!". Ichika can only cringe and think desperatley to himself of what options he may have for today's events, though with none in sight, Ichika can only sigh, look down and just brace himself for what ever unpleasantness is coming. "OKAY YOU LOT! EACH TEAM WILL SPEND TWENTY MINUTES ON EACH AND EVERY OBSTICLE OUT HERE TODAY! AND... YOU ARE TO START YOUR LESSONS, RIGHT NOW!". Miss Kitami shouts with joy at the top her lungs, she points in victory to the sky, raises a leg, the sharpness of her dainty looking knees show well under her thin, dark blue IS wear. As she relaxes herself she notices to her satisfaction the many IS students calmly walking over to their designated areas, though miss Kitami does not give any indication as to where each team is going to, it makes no differance to her.

All that matters is where the team leader is going to, Laura leads her group with a proud and confident look, Cecilia on the other hand lowers her head and holds a snarl. Ichika then looks to his right notices Houki amoungst a line of girls holding a straight and emotionless face, the said girl looks as though she is ready to take on any obsticle for today, but as they say, 'Never be fooled by appearances'. Houki is dreading every moment of today just as much as Ichika and the others. { Well, maybe not everyone }.

- 6 minutes later -

For Ichika and little Kestrel, their first port of call was a set of monkey bars to do pull ups. The mass of monkey bars and cages were quite large despite being nearly dead center in the middle of the field, but never the less it was more than capeable of suiting Ichika's team all at once. Many IS schoolgirls spent most of the time climbing the maze of silver, shinning metal bars, leaving Ichika and Kestrel to do pull ups.

For the many IS schoolgirls, being up high on the monkey bars gave them a chance to see from many differant angles of how adoreable Kestrel looked in making attempts to grab a high leveled bar. The Israeli boy jumps over and over again, his Star of David pendant along with his long, black shinning hair seemed to look very elegant running up and then back down. Ichika can only look and sweatdrop at the Israeli child tries in vain to grab a bar to pull himself up with. Then... after 6 jump attempts, Kestrel can only look up at the bar that Ichika has one hand tightly grasped upon.

Ichika looks down an a sympathetic gesture smiles and in a soft tone speaks the words "Ahh... yeah, awkward moment". The moment then becomes more and more awkward as three IS schoolgirls leap from a low level bar on the ground. The small sounds of them landing softly on their feet attracts Ichika's attention, as the Japanese boy looks over to see the three IS schoolgirls, Kestrel looks past Ichika and notices a low level bar, an idea appears in Kestrel's head. Meanwhile as Ichika looks at the three random females, he fails to notice Kestrel calmly and silently walk past him.

Kestrel's white skin looks like he is washed with the cleanest soap in warm sunlight. "Ichika Orimura, I noticed that Kestrel isn't able to do pull ups so if you like, would you mind if we take care of him?" - A girl with a black ponytail asks. Ichika, with a hand still grasped on one of the monkey bars, merely sends a comforting smile down to the questioning schoolgirl. "Oh... heh,heh... yeah, theres no problem at all, just be careful with him okay". Ichika replies with a kind and pleasant chuckle. However, as the three IS schoolgirls send lovey dovey squeals and giggles to each other, they fail to notice that little Kestrel has already started. The Israeli boy has grabbed ahold of a monkey bar that is normaly used for the placing of a foot on for climbing, and as a ressult has started to mimick the IS schoolgirls making their pull ups.

"Okay! Here Kestrel, come with...us!?" - A girl with a Orange braid speaks, her tone shifting from joyful to confused. Ichika and the three girls blink in confusion and start to shift their heads to look around for the Israeli boy. However, they don't have to turn their heads around for long, as an IS schoolgirl with long curly red hair speaks in cheerful manner "Don't worry about little Kes', he's managing!". Ichika and the 3 girls look up towards the IS schoolgirl, and see her pointing directly downwards, a smile is on her face. On the red headed girl's left are 4 more females with happy looks, on her right are 6 females looking over at Ichika and then back down to Kestrel with impressed or curious facial expressions. As Ichika looks over, he is astonished to find Kestrel, heaving his small body in hard drawn pull ups. It is clearly evident that Kestrel is having trouble in in continously pulling up bodily weight, and the strain is clearly evident on the child's face.

Ichika and the idle standing girls can only smile and look with impressment at the sight, untill a sudden and sharp voice brings the entire group back to reality "OI! OI! What are you lot doing standing around! I didn't say stop! Com'mon people! I Wan'na see sweat!". Ichika and every single girl in his team snap their attention and notice non other than miss Kitami, the woman has a serious yet pleasant facial image. "Okay you lot, what'a you lot doin' standin around!? All I see in front of me is the new kid breakin' a sweat!" - Miss Kitami calmly yet, sternly speaks out while pointing over at little Kestrel making his struggled pull ups. Ichika and the girls only get a brief chance to look again at Kestrel before miss Kitami smiles widely raises her nose in the air, sticks out her chest and howls with a short and loud laugh. The short but brief laughter makes Ichika and his entire team look over at the teacher with looks of either confusion or alarm.

As miss Kitami relaxes herself, she happily shouts out with a sharp point at the mass of monkey bars "OKAY! OKAY! No more dawdling! Get working!". Ichika and the girls don't hesitate and instantly get back to breaking a sweat.

"That's it! That's it! keep it up you lot! keep it up!" - The tomboy'ish teacher calls out, casting a final impressed look over at little Kestrel. As the blue haired teacher walks away, Ichika and the others sweatdrop.

"Looks like lil' Kestrel has out foxed us with terms of rule following eh!?" - An American accented girl with long green hair states with a playful smile on her face. The said female takes a glipse over at Ichika and makes a flirting wink. Ichika only sweatdrops and lets out a nervous chuckle before speaking in a calm and neutral tone "Ah... yeah, well he does me credit! Thats what I always say!". As Ichika finishes his statement, the sound of pride and happiness is hinted in Ichika's voice, making many of the IS schoolgirls look at each other with happy and impressed faces.

- 10 minutes later -

Ichika and his team hurridley finish making their way over towards the next phase of their P.E, the field events, that include long jump and high jump, Ichika looks over at the running track to see Charlotte and the girls in her team rushing along the track as fast as their legs can carry them, from where Ichika is standing he fails to notice the exhaustion beginning to appear on the French blonde's face. However he manages to notice the exhaustion appearing on Cecilia's face, the British Blonde looks down gasping for air, having just completed her turn in javelin. Cecilia unbeknowst to Ichika has already gone through the track events and is already on the verge of collapsing, many of the girls in her group look they already have done. Ichika sweatdrops and puts on a nervous face, as he looks away and ahead.

His team has split into two groups, one has gone for triple jump, the other has chosen long jump. Blinking, Ichika wastes no time in choosing which event to participate in, the last thing he wants is for miss Kitami to have him by the ear lobe for malingering. Ichika chooses long jump, Kestrel whom is busy observing the other schoolgirls fails to notice Ichika move forwards, leaving him open for recruitment. Meanwhile Ichika waits in the gathering line, one by one, each schoolgirl runs forward, leaps and lands heels first in the sandy landing space. Ichika feels a tense moment run up his spine, but he has confidence in his athletic skills. Smiling slightly to himself, he suddenly hears the sounds of girlish chatter catch his attention, and as he turns his head to the left, recieves a unexpected surprise. Kestrel is being pulled over to the triple jump by a pair of schoolgirls, the child's face is full of fear yet at the same time, curiosity.

Ichika's heart seems to stop, his nerves and concern runs high, but he's trapped. As a girl with twin, white buns prods Ichika in the back snapping his attention. "Its your turn to jump Ichika" - the girl speaks with a friendly tone. As Ichika turns his attention forward and notices the clear running track and sand patch in front of him, the Japanese boy can do nothing but go along with the event he's chosen.

"Oh damn!" - Ichika hisses to himself, knowing its pointless to argue, Ichika kneels forward, readies himself for a rapid boost of speed, then... charges forward, his legs running as fast as he can make them move, then... in just a short period of time, gets to the red marking line, with one almighty jump... springs himself forward, the air runs through his thick, black hair. Then... the japanese boy places both limbs forward and with his heels, lands himself in the sand. Though the impact takes away some frustrated fear out of him, Ichika does not look back at how far he's jumped and instead rushes over to the back of the cue, along the way he easily manages to ignore the many whispering females speaking in very girlish ways about how attractive Ichika is when he is either working out or how cool he looks when he's running.

For Ichika, the one thing on his mind is how his little friend Kestrel is getting on, Ichika's heart thumps away, as he steadily jogs back to his spot at the back of his team's line. As Ichika reaches the back of the line he notices little Kestrel just 5 girls away from his turn to make the jump. Ichika gulps, his face is full of nerves ( "Please god, If you're there, help him out here will ya!?" ) Ichika thinks to himself in a desperate manner.

As Ichika looks away and casts his look over at the hammer throw, he notices Laura and the German females getting the better of the other students, needless to say... the remainder of Laura's team seems happy by watching the German girls beat them anyway. Ichika sweatdrops and casts his vision over to another point and notices an exhausted Cecilia panting and gasping, her team looks realy shattered, even if Cecilia and most of the girls at the academy are thin and fit, even the fitest of people have limits. Miss Kitami failing to notice the deflated state and seeming just forcing more labour onto the girls.

Ichika's sympathy clearly goes out to the females, then... as he turns his head he notices Charlotte and her team on the hurdles, one girl or two smashes into the said jumping obsticles and falling hard on their sides or front, normaly you would expect a female to easily clear a hurdle, but due to the exhaustion flowing from most of the females, its only obvious that one or two will fall down. As Ichika looks back over to Kestrel he notices the said Israeli boy is now 2 girls away from his making his jump. All the while this is happening, Ichika does not loose attention on moving forward in line. The clue being that a person rushes past you and that you can hear the footsteps, along with the person rushing past you while your looking in the exact direction that the person will rush by. Ichika takes one final look away from Kestrel and looks at Houki complete an easy pole vault, his body and mind fills with envy.

Houki has always been an athletic type of person, so maybe its no surprise that she can complete an event with ease. Then, as Ichika takes a look over to his left, he is just in time to see Kestrel begin running down the track, his long black hair rushes and blows beautifuly in the wind as the child rushes forward, the child then gets to the red mark and to Ichika's surprise, manages to make an impressive leap forward, as the child lands on his feet, Ichika holds a brief breath. Kestrel then springs forward again, the leap is shorter than the first but the child gives it his all.

Then, the child summons all remaining spring and jumps as far forward as possible. The child lands safely in the sand, causing many observing girls in his team to gasp and point amazed at how well Kestrel just did on his first attempt. For Ichika its just a relief that Kestrel has done so well on his first move and has not felt the painful burden of embarrasment. ( "Thanks! Thank you god!" ) Ichika thinks to himself, the Japanese boy relieved highly that his traumitised little friend has completed his second challenge with good ressults, for a child... the jump distance is very impressive, and hard to belive an amature child has achieved the said distance ressults. Even though the ressults are not over the top or amazing, its still a good effort.

Ichika and Kestrel: - 02 -

Lessons: - 00 -

- 5 minutes later -

Although the monkey bars, Long jump and triple jump had been a success, the next challenges would be a lot more challenging, this time Ichika's team would do three challenges in a rotation setting. One person would do one event, move on to the second, then on to the third before moving back to doing the first event. The events where Shot put, Javelin and Hammer throw. Ichika was confident for himself in the on coming events, he was good in javelin and always had very good ressults in shot put, but hammer throw was one of his least loved events, but at least he was on to a part that did not require any running around and jumping, his heart was already beating hardly and the Japanese boy and his team were all hell bent on getting their hearts to slow down and get as much strength back as quickly as possible.

This time however Ichika was not letting Kestrel out of his sight, he was going to ensure that he was directly behind Kestrel, and only one event away. The two boys however were in the middle of the line this time, and this gave them a short amount of time to brace themselves for the upcoming event. As the first female rushes over towards the shot put, the one directly behind braces herself for the coming event. Kestrel on the other hand, closes his eyes and places a hand to his head, the child remains that way for at least 30 seconds before blinking, lowering his hand and arm by his side and looking forward with a nervous face.

Ichika does not fail to notice the child's anxious state and can do nothing except place a hand on the said child's shoulder, making the child instantly turn and look up at Ichika with an anxious expression. Ichika places a soft and sympathetic look on his and smiles kindly, "Don't worry about it, you'll do great okay". Ichika speaks in a loving and warm tone. Kestrel can only look down on the ground, a 1,000 yard stare begins to form in the child's eyes, but thankfully the child does not hear any abnormal sounds or see any disturbing images.

It only takes a few moments and sure enough, it is Kestrel's turn on the events, and although the child gives it his all, the ressults are not as good as expected. The shot put flew only a small distance, the javelin only flew a metre, and the hammer was simply to heavy for the child to pick up. Ichika does his best to comfort the child which has some good effect, but its not the lack of ressults that bothers Kestrel, its the look miss Kitami sends the Israeli child. The tomboy'ish teacher has a very disappointed look on her face, and looks at the child as if she has just seen him break her objects, eat her food or steal something from her possession.

To Ichika and the other students, the lack of performance is easily forgiven due to Kestrel being a simple child, but to miss Kitami, the brutality of a P.E coach sometimes knows no limits. The tomboy'ish teacher shows her dis-satisfaction by marching up to Kestrel, and leaning down sending a very sinister glare at the child. Kestrel's eyes widden and the colour drains from his face, the child begins to tremble as Miss Kitami sends a very angered look at the boy. "Well, well, well... what do we have here, a kid that clearly has fun lazing around I suspect!". The tomboy'ish teacher speaks in a nasty sounding hiss. Ichika notices the Kestrel's discomfort and instantly places a frown on his face, even though he knows that speaking against a teacher could land him in trouble, Ichika's good and loving heart will get the better of him every time. "Miss Kitami!" Ichika speaks in a low voice that seems to demand attention. The said blue haired teacher rolls her eyes and straightens herself up, sending back an angered expression at Ichika. Ichika nervously tenses up but manages to keep his serious facial image and voice. "Miss Kitami, If I may say, Kestrel is just a little boy, he isn't ready for challenges like these".

To the schoolgirls in Ichika's team, Ichika is making everyone stop and watch with amazement as he speaks in serious tone to his tomboy'ish teacher. To the schoolgirls, Ichika is making himself look like a damn brave hero, but from Kestrel's point of view, the nightmare is only just starting. Kestrel takes his eyes off his teacher for a few moments, and looks over at Ichika, as the said child turns his head back to look at his teacher, what greets him as a sight that makes Kestrel start to tremble in an alarming manner. In Kestrel's mind, the tomboy'ish teacher's hair has changed to colour to pitch black, the large and muscular woman is holding a long, black, blood drenched whip in the left hand, red drips of wet, fresh blood seem to drip off the blackness of the looped whip.

Her clothing has changed to black trousers, a blood drenched white T-shirt, blood splattered jewelry items are on the woman's fingers and arms. Most jewelry is made from pure bone and ressembles finger bones in human hands, made into some form of decrotive jewelry or accessory. Around the woman's neck is a line of 4 or 5 small human skulls, set on a long silver chain. The woman's left ear has an ear ring in the form of a rabbit's foot. However, as the woman turns head to look at Kestrel, the woman smiles in a very, evil manner. Her eyes are furious and sinister, wide and deranged in a very demonic way. The smile on her face is very satanic, and her smile clearly shows a set of vampire fangs. Kestrel's heart beats out of control, he shakes very heavily as his eyes meet his vision's own, evil and menacing gaze. A single tear of fear rolls down Kestrel's face, and the child tries to back up.

Back in the world of reality, a schoolgirl with long dark blue hair blinks, and just happens to take her green eyes off Ichika and Kitami, then in a startled manner, places a face of fear on her face, and shouts out as loud as she can "OH MY GOD! KESTREL'S SEEING THINGS AGAIN!", the girl points over at the terror stricken Israeli boy to confirm her claim. Everyone, including Ichika and miss Kitami look over and to their horror notice Kestrel with a utterly terror stricken face stareing wide eyed at miss Kitami. Ichika wastes no time and rushes forward, his heart beats wildly and his face is full of alarm, the only motive in Ichika being 'Rescue'. Thankfully Kestrel does not run away and Ichika is able to get a firm hold on him, the remaining girls in his team rush forward ignoring miss Kitami's yells of protest. As Ichika kneels down hold tightly to Kestrel, Kestrel slumps backward, violently shaking, eyes remaining wide open and full of terror.

As the girls in Ichika's group make it up to where Ichika is now on his knees, they find Ichika cradling Kestrel in his arms. Ichika has a serious look on his face, but his emotions are full of panic and distress, the japanese boy shakes and grasps Kestrel's pale and clamy hand in an effort to help calm Kestrel down. 4 of the schoolgirls join in Ichika's desperate efforts, calling out to Kestrel in hopes that the long haired boy with calm down and stop shaking, but the look on his face says otherwise. "Ichika, I'll go get the nurse!" - A girl with short purple hair speaks out, rushing away as fast as she can towards the academy, Ichika's only reply is a loud and short "Thanks!". However as the now large group of females converge around the panicked Kestrel and distressed Ichika miss Kitami looks down with a curious but angered expression. From Miss Kitami's point of view, this is all a hoax, yet something tells her, its very real... but, P.E teachers seem to lack the humanitarian side and instead the strict and brawn side makes the blue haired teacher, place a balled fist into one a palmed hand and with a look of determination begins to march forward at the 2 boys on the ground.

Trouble is approaching, but, unbeknownst to Ichika a figure from the distance has already noticed the trouble and is already on its way to the rescue, but... what or who is it?

Okay, I think its fair to say I've reached my very first climatic and heart in the mouth ending chapters leaving many to question what is going to happen in the next chapter, Well... don't worry the next chapter is being writen as we speak. Stick around friends!

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