The Day the Moon Shines
By: deep.Indigo

Chapter 2: Kizamitsukeru Kotoba ha Koori no Yaiba
(The Words I Engrave Are A Blade of Ice)





Ramirez was still awake, long after the others had fallen asleep. It was difficult for him to sort through all that had happened, and especially...his feelings. Although he still remained unwaveringly loyal to Lord Galcian, he did admit that Vyse had made at least one valid point, that Upper Valuans left a terrible first impression. Vyse... Ramirez's jade-green eyes narrowed. Why had he looked at the pirate that way? When he thought about, it was if he almost felt a fondness towards Vyse. He shook his head, as if to dismiss that thought entirely. That couldn't be it... Perhaps it was because he was...unused...to seeing others like that...? Yes, that made more sense. Vyse was the enemy, after all.

That returned his thoughts to the young rogue's offer earlier to let him join the group. Though the thought of seeing the world he had always dreamed of and wondered about as a child appealed to him, Ramirez wasn't quite so enthusiastic about what the implications of joining them might be. If he went with them willingly, did that mean he was betraying Lord Galcian? He felt torn between his obligation of loyalty and his own dreams. There just didn't seem to be an easy way out of this dilemma.... If only there was some way to contact Lord Galcian... Did he even have an inkling of what had happened to him? When his sword and dagger were found, Ramirez was certain that Lord Galcian would suspect that something had happened to him, since he never went anywhere without them, but...how would he link them to the Blue Rogues? Ramirez knew that Lord Galcian knew that he was far too powerful to be overcome in normal combat... He sighed. It was all too confusing. Glancing over at the slumbering crew, his eyes came to rest on Vyse. His heart skipped a beat as he gazed at the man's sleeping body.

/He is truly handsome.../

Ramirez looked away, startled by this unbidden thought. /...I'm too tired. The lack of sleep is turning me into a fool,/ he thought to himself harshly, trying to crush the memory away. Ramirez shut his eyes tightly, but it was several hours before he finally drifted off into slumber.


Elsewhere, back in the Grand Fortress, Galcian, the Grand Admiral of the Valuan Armada, was most displeased. His newest Admiral and his link to finding the Moon Crystals, Ramirez, had gone missing, and his sword and the hidden dagger only the two of them knew of had been found abandoned—and Galcian knew Ramirez would never willingly go anywhere unarmed. He felt it must have something to do with the escape of the Air Pirates and the "kidnapping" of Prince Enrique and his ship, the Delphinus—Galcian was not so sure that Enrique, with all his radical ideas, had really been kidnapped—but there was no proof to confirm his suspicions one way or another. Some of the other Admirals had suggested the possibility that he might be dead, but Galcian refused to accept that possibility without first seeing Ramirez's lifeless body with his own eyes. It was conceivable, Galcian mused, that Ramirez might have been taken prisoner by the Air Pirates, but that would mean that they had woefully underestimated their abilities. The best course of action, he decided, would be to find the Delphinus.

"Lord Galcian?" The voice of one of his Admirals, Belleza, cut through his thoughts. "The Grand Fortress has been searched thoroughly, as you commanded, but I'm afraid there's still no sign of Ramirez anywhere."

He nodded upon hearing the news. "I expected as much," he replied.

Belleza regarded Galcian for a moment before voicing her next thought. "Lord Galcian... You don't think he was taken prisoner by the Vyse and the Air Pirates, do you?"

"It is a possibility, and not one we should ignore," he stated, turning to face her.

Belleza nodded. "Well, then, what are your orders, Lord Galcian?"

"I want patrols to begin searching for the Delphinus immediately," he commanded.

"Understood, Lord Galcian," Belleza replied, saluting. "I will also inform De Loco, Gregorio and Alfonso to be on the lookout as Vigoro and I fulfill your other commands, if you so desire."

Galcian smiled coldly. "Make it so."



Despite the time it had taken for him to fall asleep, Ramirez was up well before any of the others had awakened. Unable to fall back asleep, he had sat in a corner and brooded over his current situation.

Fina awoke about half an hour later. Seeing that her 'big brother' was already awake, she decided to talk to him a bit before the others awoke.

"Good morning!" she greeted him, cheerfully.

Ramirez glanced up at her. "...Good morning," he replied at length.

"...How are you doing?" she asked, her spirits dampened by his less than enthusiastic response.

"Fina, I've been uprooted from the place where I belong and been tied down amongst my enemies," he replied evenly. "I would think that the answer to that question would be quite obvious, but it seems somehow you disagree."

Fina blushed, knowing that she should have realized that, and that her desire to talk to her childhood friend had prompted the foolish question. Flustered, she began, "I...I didn't...I just..." The Admiral regarded her unemotionally, and that flustered her further into silence.

"I would have thought that the Elders would have impressed into you not to do or say things when it's obvious that you should not do or say them," he commented with a frown. "The next thing I know, you'll have divulged to those Air Pirates our heritage."

The blonde young lady's blush deepened, and bowing her head, she said meekly, "I...actually..."

"You told them we're Silvites?" he demanded, a trace of anger entering his voice. Returning to a mere scowl, he continued, "Well, I suppose considering all that has been going on, they would have found out eventually about you...and considering you spoke last night as if we've known each other for a long time, they also know I'm a Silvite as well." He sighed, irritated but resigned, and shook his head. "I would have preferred that they did not know, but it can't be helped now. Still, I would have thought that you would have more sense than to tell strangers something that important. Or are you going to insist that you trust people you barely know?" The young Admiral shook his head again. "No matter how well you think you know someone, there will always be something about them that you don't know. That's precisely why you can't trust anyone. Though I somehow doubt you'll listen to me..."

"...What are you going to do from now on?" she inquired quietly, trying to change the subject; her heart rebelled at his words, especially since at first she had been extremely reluctant to fully trust Vyse and everyone. It wasn't as if she had trusted them blindly from the start... They had proven themselves to her by saving her, and despite what he said about them only doing that to try to trick her, she was positive that Vyse and Aika were good, sincere people who would not intentionally deceive anyone. However, she knew that if she tried to tell Ramirez that, their conversation would only degenerate into an argument, and she definitely didn't want to get on her old friend's bad side.

"What do you mean?" Ramirez queried, though he already knew what she meant.

"Um... I mean...well, what are you going to do now? ...I'm sure that Vyse would let you join the crew, if you wanted..." she hesitantly replied.

The young Admiral stared at the girl he had grown up with steadily. "'Join the crew'?" he repeatedly scornfully. "Perhaps I haven't made my allegiances clear enough, Fina. Otherwise you wouldn't have such ludicrous ideas."

She looked away from him, clearly hurt. "...I...just..." she started to say, but thought better of it, remembering the other day.

Ramirez frowned and stood. "I am going to take a walk," he announced flatly. "There's nowhere for me to go, so you needn't worry." With that, he left without another word.

"What a jerk!!" Aika's voice exclaimed as soon as he was gone.

Fina looked up, startled at the sudden noise. She relaxed, seeing Aika, who had just awoken, apparently.

"I really can't stand that bastard!! You're like his family, for crying out loud, WHERE does he get off being so rude?!" Aika continued to rant, getting out of her sleeping bag.

The teenaged Silvite sighed, shaking her head sadly.

"You know what, Fina?! You should stand up to him! He's just walking all over you because he knows he can!!" Enrique and Vyse were getting up, awakened by Aika's tirade, but she didn't notice. "Next time he talks to you like that, say, 'Hey, you jerk, I don't have to take that from you! Now you apologize right now before I get medieval on your ass!'!!"

Vyse burst out laughing as Enrique looked rather shocked at Aika's choice of language.

Fina looked a little surprised at that, at first, but then she smiled. "Thank you..." she murmured. "I feel a little better now."

"Aika's got at-ti-tuuude," Vyse intoned before laughing again.

Her cheeks turning pink, Aika snapped, "Vyse, you shut up!! It's your responsibility to go talk to Ramirez!"

That made the rogue shut up. "My responsibility?" he repeated, mouth agape.

Enrique cleared his throat, recovering from Aika's rant. "Well...you were the one who brought him on board, Vyse," he pointed out politely.

Vyse scratched the back of his head. "Right, right..." he acknowledged, embarrassed.

"Well? What are you waiting for?!" Aika demanded when he didn't get up immediately. "Go talk to him, right now!!"

"Okay, okay, I'm on it..." With that, he rose and exited the cave. The Silvite Admiral was not hard to seek out; Vyse found him near the pond where they had bathed the night before, staring intently out at the heavens.

"Ramirez?" he called out, not wanting to surprise the man.

His silver hair twitched, as if he had glanced behind him. "What do you want?" the Silvite swordsman called back.

"Um, hey, I was thinking...maybe you shouldn't be so cruel to Fina... I mean, she is close to you, right?" Vyse asked him.

Ramirez stiffened, then turned slowly and glared at Vyse. After a moment of uncertain tenseness, the handsome Admiral sighed irritably and ran a hand through his hair. "I suppose I should apologize to her," he muttered.

Vyse was mildly surprised. For once, Ramirez had agreed to do something...

The emerald-eyed Silvite turned to Vyse, frowning. "All right, I'll apologize to her," he submitted. "Is there anything else you wanted to talk to me about?"

Vyse considered this for a moment. "Well... I know it hasn't been too long, but have you decided anything yet?" he questioned the other man.

Ramirez gazed evenly and expressionlessly at the Blue Rogue, then turned that gaze back at the expansive sky. There had been a time in his life where he had been impressed with its boundlessness and fascinated by the opportunities for adventure and discovery that it offered. Seven years later, he knew better...that the sky was merely an empty void, that it only signified how disconnected people could be from morals and conscience, no matter how close they came to others. The thought was hardly comforting, but it at least reassured him that even though he had no choice but to stay with the foolish Air Pirate and his companions, by no means did it mean that he was an ally of theirs. "Being that I have no means to do anything else, I suppose it would be more convenient to travel with you as a crew member rather than a prisoner. However..."

"Yeah?" Vyse prompted.

Ramirez turned to the Air Pirate, his jade-colored eyes icy and slitted. "However," he continued, his face a stormy mask, "never consider me your ally. My allegiances are with Lord Galcian alone."

Vyse sighed and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I kinda noticed," he remarked.

Ramirez made a face at the irreverent rogue and looked away, back into the sea of the sky.

Vyse shrugged, and headed back to the cave. When he re-entered, Aika and the others looked up at him expectantly. Vyse pondered for a moment on how to word what he needed to tell them. After several long moments of fruitless pondering, he finally bit the bullet and said, "Hey, Ramirez is joining our crew. Is that okay?"

Aika twitched visibly. "WHAT!?"

"Oh, how wonderful!" Fina exclaimed, clasping her hands to her chest happily. "He gave me the impression he wouldn't!"

Enrique also did not look displeased. "I do not see the harm in him joining," he stated plainly.

Aika's view on the matter was clearly different, however.

"He's a homicidal psychopath!!" she protested vociferously, and the others cringed; her voice probably carried a bit too well, and Ramirez wouldn't be thrilled at her descriptions of him. "And how do you know he won't betray us all?!"

"Well," Vyse said, after recovering from her rant, "I can't know for certain what he'll do... We'll just have to trust him, right?"

Aika growled fiercely and throttled the air, but even she recognized when it was pointless to argue something further. "You're the captain," she finally relented.



Feeling strangely empty inside, Ramirez sighed and turned from the view to the forest. It was pure insanity, agreeing to join Vyse, but... He shook his head, dismissing that. He would simply have to put up with these idiots until he could get back to Valua. In the meantime...he supposed he was obligated to apologize to Fina. Ramirez sighed, irritated; why had he allowed himself to be bound, even with mere words, to the accursed rogue? He sighed again. Why couldn't things ever be simple? He simply didn't have a reason for acting the way he was.

Before him, Vyse and the others appeared from out of the cave and approached him. The red-headed female rogue looked distinctly disgruntled, Prince Enrique seemed calm, and Fina appeared rather happy. Ramirez supposed Vyse had informed them that he was joining, although it seemed odd that Fina was so exuberant after he had been so cold to her...

"Hey," Vyse greeted him. "I was just explaining to the others about what you were gonna do."

Ramirez nodded, eyeing the others. "I figured..." he replied in a low voice. "And how have they taken it?"

"They're right here, you can ask them directly," Vyse pointed out.

The Admiral frowned slightly before redirecting his gaze to Fina and the others. "Well? How do you all feel about me joining the crew?"

"I'm so happy!" Fina smiled.

"I have no qualms with it," Enrique replied calmly.

"This has to be Vyse's worst decision EVER," Aika grumbled.

Ramirez sweatdropped faintly. "I see..." Shaking his head, he walked up to them. "Well then, I suppose we have no choice but to leave."

"Right! Let's go!" Vyse smiled, waving everyone over to the ship and hoping desperately that Aika wouldn't continue to voice her dissatisfaction.



"I still don't like this," Aika grumbled once they were all aboard the Delphinus and had taken off for Esperanza. "What's keeping him from stabbing us in the back?"

Vyse sighed, realizing her silence was too good to hope for. After a moment's consideration, he shrugged and replied, "Nothing, I guess."

Aika smacked him. "Vyse, I'm being serious!!" she snapped. "You have to take responsibility for him! You brought him home, so you're going to have to take care of him!"

"Aika, he's not a stray puppy!" the young Blue Rogue protested. "Don't worry so much. I'm not stupid—I know he'll try something sooner or later. I'm keeping an eye on him. He won't pull anything while I'm around!"

Aika's eyes narrowed as she made a face at him. "Oh?" she asked dryly. "Then you won't protest if I say you should make him share your room?"

Vyse almost fell over. "What?! Share my room?!" he repeated. "Are you insane, Aika?"

"Not half as insane as you for bringing him in the first place," the redheaded pirate rebutted. She took on her smiling cat face and added, "Besides, aren't you keeping an eye on him? If you two share the same room, wouldn't that make 'keeping an eye on him' a lot easier?"

The taller Blue Rogue rolled his eyes, looking quite unhappy. "That's something entirely different..." he began, but Fina, who had been quietly watching until then, finally spoke up.

"I agree with Aika!"

'Almost', nothing; Vyse did fall over this time. From the floor, he said blankly, "Fi, Fina?"

Fina bent over a little, looking a bit worried, but she nodded. "Ramirez and I..." she began haltingly, "...we've been mostly alone all our lives. Each Silvite had his or her own room, and if we wanted to communicate with each other, we didn't visit each other in person, we...well, it's a little difficult to explain, but it was very impersonal. If Ramirez shared a room with you, maybe...he'd get more comfortable being with other people?"

Vyse smiled nervously, shutting his eyes. "Um, are you sure it'd be a good idea for him to share a room with me?"

"Why wouldn't it be? After all, he won't pull anything while you're around!" Aika pantomimed the exuberant young Rogue mockingly.

He made a face. "Ugh." Getting up from the floor, he ran a hand through his bangs and sighed. "What about Enrique? Couldn't Ramirez share a room with him?"

"That wouldn't be right! Enrique isn't here to agree or disagree with that!" Fina insisted.

"And here I was thinking he was the unlucky one to stick with Ramirez on the voyage to Esperanza," Vyse mumbled.

"What was that, Vyse?" Aika teased, leaning in closer to him.

He made another face, then sighed again. "Okay, Ramirez'll...stay in my room. I guess. It makes sense, seeing as I have the captain's quarters, and they're the biggest on the ship..."

Aika blinked, surprised. /I was just joking, I never thought he'd actually agree to it.../

"Oh, thank you, Vyse!" Fina beamed, looking extremely relieved. "Let's go tell him right now!"

"Uh, Enrique is showing Ramirez around the ship right now, and I don't know where they are, so we should wait until they get back," Vyse stated quickly.

Aika rolled her eyes. "Vyse, just go tell him already."

Vyse frowned. "Hey, I'm the captain here! Who are you to tell me what to do?!"

"Vyse, GO TELL HIM!"

The Blue Rogue didn't need to be told thrice. He ran out of the captain's control room and slammed the door behind him.

"Aika, you're awfully forceful," Fina commented, somewhat surprised.

The carrot-topped rogue laughed. "It's the only way to get that stubborn boy moving!" she winked.

Question marks almost audible, Fina stared at her friend, nonplussed.



"Aika is a scary, scary girl," Vyse muttered, stalking the corridors of the Delphinus. "Although, I have to admit, I was just stalling..." He glanced up at the ceiling and held a hand to his chest, feeling sick. "Ugh...I'm not looking forward to giving Ramirez the cheery news..."

"What news is this?" Ramirez's voice asked darkly from behind him. Vyse spun around quickly to see that Enrique and Ramirez had just turned the corner he'd passed a few steps back.

"Um..." Vyse faltered, keeping his eyes on the ceiling.

"Vyse?" Enrique voiced, watching the young captain curiously.

Shaking his head, Vyse crossed his arms and lowered his eyes to the other two men, deciding to get it over with and say it all at once. "Ramirez, while you're on this ship, you're to share my quarters," he stated.

The Silvite Admiral's jade eyes widened, then narrowed. "I see..." he said quietly. "Who decided this, and when?"

"The girls, and just now," Vyse responded promptly. "You can blame them."

"Mmph," Ramirez muttered, turning his head aside so that his silvery bangs hid his face from view. "I'm in no position to argue, so very well."

Vyse sweatdropped at the silver-haired young man's unexpected pliancy. "Uh, okay," he smiled nervously. "I'll show you where my room is later."

Ramirez didn't reply. Instead, he wordlessly went back the way Vyse had came back to the control room. Enrique and Vyse shared a puzzled glance, then quickly walked after him, joining him just as he entered.



Although the others seemed wary of him but otherwise stress-free, Ramirez was certain he had the onsets of a migraine. Why was he being made to suffer like this? He swore in his heart that, no matter what happened, Vyse would die by his hand and his hand alone.

Even as he nursed such dark thoughts, Ramirez set up a makeshift bed on the floor of Vyse's quarters. The options were to sleep on the floor or sleep in Vyse's bed with him, so of course the choice was clear.

"You sure you're comfortable down there?" Vyse asked, watching him from his bed as he brushed his hair.

"You want me to sleep with you?" Ramirez asked brusquely.

"Ugh. Point."

"Hmph."

Vyse slipped the clear eyepatch off his head and set it on a table next to his bed, then stretched out and relaxed on the mattress, decked out in his pajamas. "So...what made you decide to join the crew, Ramirez?"

"Temporary insanity."

The Blue Rogue laughed at that until he realized the young Admiral wasn't joking. "Really?"

"The choice was to be a thief or a prisoner. Although neither choice is appealing, at least as a thief I can move freely."

"Move freely so you can kill me?" Vyse asked jokingly.

Ramirez paused, as if considering what to say. With a deliberate motion, he stood. "About that..."

Vyse had the sudden foreboding feeling he had said exactly the wrong thing. "What?"

The Admiral narrowed his green eyes as he glared down at him. "I will kill you," he told him softly.

Vyse sat up, staring at him, and said nothing. He didn't know what he could say.

The white-haired Silvite stepped over his bedding and continued, "Yes, I'll kill you..." With sudden and surprising speed, Ramirez slammed his left hand just past Vyse's ear onto the wall and leaned in close to him, hissing, "I swear it! And only I will be the one to do it, Vyse. I won't let anyone else kill you..."

With that, he pulled away as suddenly as he had approached and turned his back to the stunned Air Pirate.

"Good night," Ramirez stated nonchalantly as he laid down and drew the sheets and blanket over his slender body, as if nothing at all out of the ordinary had happened. He glanced over his shoulder and, with a slight smirk, added, "Sweet dreams..."

Vyse didn't get a wink of sleep that night.



"Vyse? Are you all right? You don't look so good," Fina noted the next morning, concerned.

"What? Yeah, fine," the brunet Air Pirate mumbled, bags under his eyes. "That coffee I see over there?" he changed the subject even as he reached for the coffee pot.

"Vyse, you've already had three mugs of it!" Aika reminded him—even she was getting worried.

He responded with a yawn. "Couldn't sleep at all..." he muttered, pouring his fourth cup of coffee.

"Did it have anything to do with Ramirez?" Enrique queried shrewdly.

Vyse twitched and almost dropped his coffee mug. Across the room, Ramirez was quietly sipping a cup of tea. Upon hearing his name, he glanced up briefly, and his eyes met with Vyse's. For a second, the two young men stared at each other; then, Ramirez smirked slightly and cast his eyes downward once more.

"...Not really," the captain of the Delphinus finally replied. "Hey, how long 'til we reach Esperanza?"

Aika sighed, irritated, but didn't press the matter—it would be better to talk to Vyse about it when Ramirez wasn't around, she decided. "Another five or six hours, according to the map, provided we don't run into any trouble."

"Great..." Vyse muttered, running a hand through his bangs.



It was three hours later that Vyse couldn't stand it anymore. With the excuse that he was getting antsy from being inside for so long, Vyse handed the wheel to Aika and dragged Ramirez outside the bridge, at the top of the stairs, and turned around and glared at him.

"What," the young pirate began angrily, "is your problem?!"

"I could ask the same of you," Ramirez replied icily. "Is there any particular reason for this?"

"Hmm, I don't know, maybe it's 'cause you threatened to kill me?!"

Ramirez scowled, then smirked and chuckled. "I didn't threaten you," he corrected Vyse. "I promised you."

Vyse sighed, irritated, but he started to get calmer regardless. "Same difference. How and when are you going to kill me, anyway? You're outnumbered and unarmed."

The silver-haired Admiral shrugged. "It doesn't have to be today or tomorrow. I'm perfectly willing to wait. But remember, I won't let anyone else kill you. I want that pleasure all for my own."

Vyse gaped at him. "Moons, Ramirez, you're a freak!"

Ramirez glared at him from under hooded eyes.

"Er, I mean that in the nicest way possible, of course," the Blue Rogue added hastily. When Ramirez's dark expression didn't change, Vyse grumbled, "Oh hell, don't give me that look. You started it with your death threats."

"'You started it,'" Ramirez repeated derisively. "Are you a child? Can't you think up anything better than that?"

"Oh come on, it's the truth! And what do you have to kill me for, anyway? I apologized for everything!" Vyse protested.

With a noise of disgust, the white-haired Admiral snapped, "You think just because you apologized for it that it makes everything better? You're an idiot, Vyse."

Vyse rolled his eyes. "I must be. I brought you with me."

"Hmph."

The brunet rogue frowned and sighed. This wasn't going well at all; wasn't he the one who said they should try to give Ramirez as few reasons to hate them as possible? "...I'm sorry," he submitted finally. "Okay? I'm sorry. Let's just set our differences aside for now, all right? "

"Pleading for your life?"

Vyse smirked. "Please. I'm doing this for Fina's sake. And I could kill you a lot more easily than you could kill me."

Ramirez regarded him with a frown and a raised eyebrow. "Oh? Try it, then."

"Already did. I had you unconscious, remember?" the rogue replied curtly. "If I wanted to, I could've slit your throat and gotten rid of you permanently. But I didn't. I let you live, and what's more, I've been cutting you a lot of slack for someone who works for the enemy. I didn't have to offer to let you join the crew of the Delphinus. While it's true that Blue Rogues don't normally take prisoners, you'd make a great exception."

The Admiral mentally noted that he also hadn't had to bring him along at all in the first place, but rather than commenting on that, he inquired, "...What do you want from me, then?"

"I'm not asking you to like me or trust me or anything, no more than you have to. Just try to be a decent human being and don't try to kill me, or any of us."

"But I'm not a human being, at least not one like you Arcadians," Ramirez pointed out. "I'm a Silvite, as Fina so thoughtfully told you. And I'm going to kill you."

Vyse rolled his eyes, exasperated. "Aw, Moons..."

"...As I said before, it doesn't have to be today," the shorter man stated quietly. "I'll make you a deal...Vyse. If, within one lunar cycle's time, you can convince me that you're not the same as other people, who selfishly kill to live and indulge their own fancies, then I'll forswear those words. But if you can't..."

"...You'll continue to wait for a chance to kill me, right?" the Blue Rogue finished, considering Ramirez.

"Correct."

The reckless young pirate grinned and pounded Ramirez on the back. "Good enough for me. Welcome aboard, Rami!"

Stunned by his nemesis' enthusiasm, the pale swordsman blinked. "...What?"

"I said Welcome aboard!"

"No, I meant...did you call me 'Rami'?"

With a nonchalant shrug, Vyse replied, "Yeah. So?"

Ramirez's expression darkened like the sky before a storm. "Don't call me that."

The brunet pirate chuckled. "Relax. I was just joking anyway. In any case, I'm glad we worked out this understanding."

"My, you're trusting," the Admiral commented dryly.

"I just don't have the time to deal with loose cannons. If you just promise to cooperate while staying on this ship as a crew member, we can put that incident behind us for now."

"Mm," the young Silvite muttered in non-reply, casting his malachite green eyes away. "All right...agreed."

"Good. Then it's settled."




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