Sasha was standing on the beach with her toes deep in the sand with a look of accomplishment. they had done it... they had finally done it... they had taken out all the Titans from the island and now they were standing in the middle of a beautiful beach with the most stunning sunset she had ever seen.

Eren, Mikasa, and Armin were talking amongst themselves a little bit further away along with Levi and Hanji.

some of the newer recruits were playing in the water with Jean and Connie.

they were all having a good time playing in the sand and water. but for some reason, something was eating at Sasha as she just stood there.

she was smiling as she looked out into the water, but she felt like someone was standing behind her. she gave a confused glance as she turned, only to look in shock as Marco's face was right in front of her.

"I saw you there... why didn't you save me?" he asked her as blood started to come from his mouth and eyes that were now pitch black.

Sasha turned around fully to face him, only to scream as more people started showing up. Mike was there too, but he didn't have a head, and his body was just floating there, with the rest of him surrounding his body. it seemed like he was torn apart by Titans.

Erwin was also there with a missing arm and no legs.

Petra appeared with a broken spine and blood beneath her, with her insides out of her body.

Eld was there with his body torn in half.

Gunther was right next to Eld with a decapitated head.

Sasha let out a scream as the world around her became quiet. she called for everyone behind her on the beach, only to turn around and see them laying in the now bloody water... dead... and a battleship pointing guns and cannons at her.

"Sasha," Marco said, grabbing her and making her turn around to look at him, tears falling from her face as she sobbed in sadness and fear. he was still bleeding, but even more than before. "Sasha, you have to wake up..." Marco said, shaking her shoulders. "we need you, Sasha... Sasha... Wake up!" he yelled, but for some reason, it sounded like... Jean's voice... "SASHA, GET UP, WE NEED YOU!" he yelled as Sasha cried.


Eren's loud roaring rang throughout the entire forest. Mikasa stopped running towards the carriages and horses to turn around and call Eren's name. She didn't even hesitate to activate her maneuver gear and fly towards where the roar came from.

"Mikasa, where the hell are you going?" Connie yelled after her. Connie looked over at Jean, before nodding his head and going after her, with Jean following as a commanding officer yelled after them. He was going to follow after them, but they were moving too fast, and he lost sight of them in the trees.


once Levi got close to the battlefield, he saw Gunther. He was just hanging from a tree with his maneuver gear still attached, and he looked to be dead. Sadly, he didn't get a chance to inspect whether he was dead or alive; he had to focus on Eren and the Female Titan. Levi continued forward to the battlefield as he passed Oluo and Eld. he only stopped to look at Petra's broken body that was laid in an unnatural position against a tree. He had a look of regret, but he was also wondering what could have happened that they had to die. Sasha warned him that this would possibly happen, but he expected at least one of them to survive with her help.


Jean, Connie, and Mikasa got to the battlefield before Levi could and watched as the Female Titan took a bite out of Eren's Titan's nape. Mikasa ignored Jean and Connie as they called out to her, trying to catch up with her, but they only saw her shocked expression as the Female Titan bit down on Eren. They all watched in shock as the Female Titan 'swallowed' Eren.

Mikasa had a look of distraught as she watched the Female Titan run away, and Connie and Jean appeared next to her.

"W-wait..." Mikasa whispered. "Eren... Don't go..." she whispered again, but then got a look of pure anger before bolting after the Female Titan, not giving Jean and Connie a chance to say anything to her. "Give Eren..." she started as she continued to fly through the air faster than Connie and Jean, who tried to chase after her. "Give Eren...BACK!" she yelled as she charged for a killing blow towards the Female Titan.

"Shit, where the fuck is Sasha?" Jean yelled as he looked back. He looked to where the trees were broken down the most and instantly headed in that direction, knowing that he could no way in hell possibly catch up to Mikasa. Especially when she was in a rage. "Come on, we have to go find her!" he yelled at Connie, who just nodded his head and followed after him.

"What the hell are you guys doing here?" a voice asked them as they flew towards the broken trees. Both teenagers turned around and saw Captain Levi gliding right next to them. He had a bow strapped around his body and a case filled with arrows strapped right next to it on his back. He was glaring at them.

"Sir!" both teenagers yelled in shock before stopping on a tree branch.

"I'll ask you again, what the hell are you doing here?" Levi asked them.

"Captain Levi, we are here under the request of Sasha Braus to make sure that nothing happens to Mikasa Ackerman!" Connie yelled.

"...So you're the two idiots that she decided to tell," Levi said as he stopped on a branch above them. "Where is she?" he asked them.

"We don't know, we were about to go look for her, captain," Jean answered back with a salute.

"If you find her, give her this, I'm going to go after your other dumbass friend," he snapped, handing them the bow and case of arrows before flying off.

"Shit... man where the fuck could she be?" Jean snapped as they continued forward to go look for their female friend once Levi was gone. They flew for a couple of minutes before finding the rest of the Levi Squad.

"What the hell?" Connie asked as he soared past Petra and Oluo.

"Connie over here!" Jean yelled as he spotted a body hanging from a tree. The person was actually about to fall from the tree, but they got there before the person could and caught them.

"It's Sasha!" Connie yelled once he got a good look at her face and as they landed on the branch she was going to fall off from. Thank whoever is out there that they got to her before she hit the ground because if she did, she would have been dead.

Jean sat her down softly before turning her face and checking if she had a pulse on her neck. Her heartbeat was steady, but she had a big gash on her head.

"She's out cold," Jean said as he looked over her body. He hit her face softly, making sure that he avoided the wound on her head. "Sasha, wake up," he snapped at her.

"Sasha!" Connie yelled as he grabbed her hand. "Sasha, you have to wake up, we need you! Sasha... Sasha..."

"Wake up!" Jean snapped at her. "SASHA, GET UP, WE NEED YOU!" he yelled as Sasha's eyes started to move lightly. Jean let out a sigh before making her sit up a little more so that no more blood would rush to her head.

"W-what... What happened?" she asked, confused.

"Something went wrong and the Female Titan got away," Connie said as he took out the emergency medical supplies that he had on him and handed them to Jean, who knew what he was doing when he was trying to patch up Sasha's gash. "Mikasa and Captain Levi are after her right now."

"Shit..." she whispered to herself before trying to push Jean away and get up.

"Hold still you fucking dumbass," Jean snapped at her as he tried to patch the injury. The most he could do in this situation was just cover it with bandages. "What the hell happened here?"

"Annie... Tried to kill Gunther... I pushed him out of the way..." she whispered softly as she seemed to be trying to make herself get up once more only to be pushed back again by Connie.

"We will go check on them right now... you need rest," Jean snapped at her.

"No... If I don't go... Bad things will happen later..." she said groggily as she weakly tried to move his hand from her face.

"You can't do anything with that injury, now can you shut up and let me help you?" Jean snapped at her. Sasha just nodded her head, only to regret it a second later as a big headache came her way.

"I'm going to go check if there's anybody else alive," Connie said before swinging away and going to check the rest of the Levi Squad.

"Dammit Potato Girl..." Jean snapped slightly as he finally finished and gave her water. Sasha took it gratefully before turning her head away. Her headache was now gone, but she still didn't feel like she could get up. "What's going to happen if you don't go?" Jean asked her.

"...Captain Levi will get an injury... And many people inside the walls... inside Wall Sina will die..." she explained to him.

"Dammit..." he said, before he started to think about what could happen. He honestly did not really want to think about it. He didn't really want Sasha to go out there, considering he didn't know if she had a concussion or something much worse going on. "...Make sure you don't bang your head or anything on your way there, do you understand me? And don't get involved directly..." he whispered to her. "You're basically our only hope right now... other than Eren," he snapped at her. She nodded her head and waited a couple of seconds before she had enough energy and strength in her body to get up.

She gave a final nod towards Jean before flying off in the direction that Mikasa was with Levi and Annie. Jean nodded his head after her before letting out a deep sigh.

"JEAN he is alive!" Connie yelled, getting his attention. He honestly really wanted to go with her, but he knew that his job as a soldier came first. He got up from where he was crouching down on the tree branch and let himself fall before catching himself with his maneuver gear and going in the direction that Connie went.


Levi and Mikasa were chasing the female titan. Levi had caught Mikasa as she was about to chase after her again, after being thrown off her course and forced to follow his lead.

"Keep this distance, she's exhausted and doesn't appear to be able to move very fast," Levi told Mikasa. "It looks like she took him with one bite to the nape... did Eren die?" Levi asked Mikasa.

Mikasa just glared ahead.

"He is alive!" she confirmed. "The target appears to possess intelligence," she told him getting herself together. "Her objective is to take Eren away. If she wanted to kill Eren, she would have crushed him. The target put Eren in her mouth, so she could fight and flee at the same time."

"Maybe her aim was to eat Eren," Levi said. "If that's the case, Eren is in her stomach... The normal conclusion would be that he's dead."

"He's alive," Mikasa told him confidently. Levi just looked at her for a moment before speaking again.

"I hope you're right," he told her.

"If you had protected Eren in the first place, this would never have happened," she snapped at him. Levi looked at her shocked.

"I remember now... You were Sasha and Eren's friend," he said as he turned his body around to face her. "We'll limit ourselves to one goal. First, we'll have to forget about trying to kill the Female."

"But she killed many of our comrades-"

"As long as she is able to harden her skin, we can't do anything," he snapped at her. "Obey my call on this and you won't end up dead... We'll have to put our hopes on Eren still being alive. We'll rescue him before she makes it out of the forest. I'll slice her up. You distract her," Levi ordered her before she nodded and flew forward to be by the Female Titan's legs and in her view. Levi ended up going higher up in the trees to get a good view of the Female Titan's jaw. He knew that the Female Titan was watching him from the corner of her eye, knowing that Mikasa was most likely the distraction.

Levi took out both of his swords and got himself ready to attack her. But just then the Female Titan turned around and threw a punch at Levi. Levi, not missing a beat, instantly spun his body around (the fidget spinner thing Lol), allowing the swords to slice through the Female Titans' arm. As he did that, he quickly sliced her arm up and appeared in front of her face, ready to cut her jaw open. Levi instantly cut her cheek where the jaw was clamped shut and jumped back into the air, before using his maneuver gear to pull himself forward and attacking her entire body, not giving her time to heal herself.

The Female Titan just covered the nape of her neck with one arm and fell against the tree. Levi cut open her arms and legs until the arm that was covering her nape fell to the ground. He did not give her a chance to even heal or move.

"Her nape... it's vulnerable," Mikasa thought. "She's exhausted and unable to move... I can kill her,' Mikasa thought as she attached one of her wires to the Female Titan's shoulder and went for the kill.

"No!" Levi yelled as he watched the Female Titan move her eyes to look at Mikasa. The Female Titan raised an arm as Mikasa was getting closer, but two arrows were shot from somewhere in the trees, both arrows hitting bullseye in both of the Female Titan's eyes. At that moment, the Female Titan hesitated in lifting her arm, allowing Levi to push Mikasa out of the way and for him to get out of there without getting any injuries.

"Hurry up!" Sasha's voice rings out through the forest. Levi didn't even hesitate when he went to take the other side of the Female Titan's jaw, allowing her mouth to fall wide open. Inside of her mouth, Eren was covered in saliva, but he was perfectly fine... other than being unconscious.

"Eren!" Mikasa cried. Levi instantly went to go pick him up and jumped out of the way before the Female Titan could do anything.

"Hey!" Levi yelled as he landed on a branch. "Let's get out of here!" he said as Mikasa looked at Eren happily. "He's probably okay. he's alive but a mess... Don't go after her. We are retreating. Don't lose sight of the true goal of this mission. Or will you put your personal feelings first? Isn't he your precious friend?" he said as he moved away with his maneuver gear.

As Levi carried Eren away, Mikasa appeared behind him following his orders. And right behind her, Sasha appeared. Levi turned around to make sure that they were following him, only to be shocked to see the Female Titan crying.

"Levi..." Sasha called his name only to have him look at her. He looked down at her and watched as she maneuvered her way around. She looked to be a little bit tired and weak, but she was moving as fast as she could. "Everything will be alright," she told him with confidence. He just nodded his head slowly before turning around.


Around an hour later, they finally found everyone else. They had decided to pause in an open field, where they were getting everything together, such as putting more gas in their maneuver gear and making sure their horses were well-rested before they continued back to the walls. Levi placed Eren on a wagon before walking away, leaving him alone with Mikasa.

Sasha was taken to another wagon, where she was treated and placed next to Eld and Gunther, who were still unconscious. Jean and Connie were by her side as she was being treated. As it turned out, she did not have a concussion, she was just knocked out because of the hot air, and because she was hit really hard against the tree when Eren transformed. She let out a sigh of relief, glad that she wasn't too injured, and looked over at the people who were now dead.

They were covered in a white cloth stained with blood. The only things visible were their feet that were sticking out from under the bloodstained cloth.

Levi was looking over Petra and Oluo's bodies, before crouching down and taking their Wings of Freedom insignias from their jackets and even taking their capes.

A couple of minutes later, Jean was called away to help stack up the dead bodies in the wagons to take back inside the walls. Connie was feeding the horses that were attached to Sasha's wagon.

"How long do you think we're going to stay alive?" Connie asked her.

"Don't worry about it... Remember, I died before you did..."

"...Yeah... I guess," Connie nodded.

"What's wrong... We're alive now aren't we?" she asked him softly.

"How can you look at the dead and say that... How many people did you see die in your... Past life...?" he asked her. She didn't answer him and just listened to the wind blow as she watched Connie walk away.

"We're almost done; we were unable to recover about five bodies," someone reported to Commander Erwin.

"Not even parts of them?" Erwin asked.

"We got back everyone except the ones the Titans devoured... I think it'd be best for their families if we didn't bring them back that way," the man told Erwin.

"...Classify them as 'Missing in action'."

"Yes, sir," the man responded. "We confirmed several Titans in the vicinity of the forest, but none of them are headed this way."

"We'll move out immediately. Pass that on to all the squads."

"yes, sir," the man responded.

"I can't take this, Commander Erwin!"

"Hey, you!" the man Erwin was talking to earlier called out to a new cadet as he yelled for Erwin.

"We should retrieve their bodies!" the cadet yelled, standing next to his friend. "Ivan's body was right in front of us!"

"There was a Titan right next to his body," the officer told him, "we would be risking even more casualties."

"If it attacks, we could kill it!" the cadet yelled.

"Ivan and I grew up in the same village. We've been friends since we were kids," the cadet's friend stated. "I knew his parents too. At least let me bring him home. Don't be selfish."

"You guys argue like children," Levi's voice rang out.

"Captain Levi!"

"If you can confirm that he died, that should be sufficient," he told the two Cadets. "Whether you have his body or not, the fact is, he's dead... It changes nothing," Levi explain to them harshly.

"But that's..."

"We will classify Ivan and the others as missing-in-action," Erwin stated. "It's settled, let's go," Erwin told them.

"Don't the two of you... Have any human feelings?!" the cadet yelled, only to be told off by his commanding officer. Sasha was looking over at them slightly and giving Erwin and Levi a look, telling them to keep a close eye on the two cadets.

"Hey Ymir... come here for a second," Sasha called, getting Ymir's attention. The young woman quickly turned around to face her, before nodding her head and waving at Krista, telling her that she would be right back.


They were running back to the walls. Mikasa was pulling her horse to be closer to Eren. Sasha was all the way in the back, with Jean and Connie's horses running beside her carriage. She was looking off into the distance, back in the direction that they were coming from.

Something was wrong, she could feel it in her bones, even though she already knew what was going to happen.

"Titan!" one of the cadets in the back yelled.

"That's... Dieter... That fool...!" the commanding officer from earlier yelled as he shot a red flare into the sky.

"The rear flank has spotted Titans!" the cadet yelled.

"Move out! Full speed ahead!" Commander Erwin yelled.

"There aren't any tall trees or buildings in sight," Levi told him. They were all the way in the front of the line, leading the way back to the walls, so sadly, they couldn't do anything without placing everyone in danger. "We won't be able to fight our way out."

"It'd be faster to make a run for the walls," Erwin said as Levi slowed down his horse to go to the back.

Sasha was looking behind them and saw that one of the Titans struck down the man with the ponytail and ate him instantly. Another Titan took a swing for the blond cadet, only to make him drop his friend's body... The body that they went back for. The cadet then tried to attack the Titan that was holding his friend, attempting to kill it.

From the corner of Sasha's eyes, she saw more Titans approaching.

"Sasha what should we do?!" Jean yelled over at Sasha, who was just watching the Titans. Sasha didn't say anything and just continued to watch the Titans. Mikasa ended up going back to kill the Titan that killed the man with the ponytail and was now going after the blond cadet.

The cadet left the Titans hand with an injured arm once Mikasa killed the Titan and landed on the ground close by.

"It's no use, they are gaining on us!" someone yelled. It was one of the cadets who were carrying the corpses of their fallen comrades. Sasha was also in one of the wagons close by. Jean and Connie were looking at her with a desperate look.

"Captain Levi!" Sasha yelled when she saw Captain Levi approaching her with his horse.

"What do you suggest we do?" Levi asked her.

"Have everyone shoot up a flare, it doesn't matter what color, just shoot a flare at the Titans," she yelled over the horse's hooves hitting the ground loudly, trying to go faster.

"What is that going to do for us?" Levi asked her, confused.

"Just do it, trust me!" she yelled. Levi looked at her face and saw the look that she had. She had a look of determination and faith... He didn't know in what, but he just nodded his head and continued to ride forward, telling everyone to pass on the word to shoot a flare towards the Titans.

"Everyone shoot a flare towards the Titans, it doesn't matter what color it is, just shoot it!" he yelled. "Pass on the word to the front," he told the cadets. Everyone looked at him confused, but didn't question him as they all started to ready their flare guns. "At your word, Sasha," Levi said. Sasha looked into the distance where everyone was, and watched as one of the horses slowed down. The rider was slowing the horse down as much as they could without falling too far behind or without anyone questioning why they were slowing down. Once the person was a little bit further away from the rest of the group and closer to the Titans, she nodded to Levi.

"FIRE!" Levi yelled. At his command, everyone shot out a flare towards the Titans. A thick mist of different colors had covered the area as they continue to ride. Sasha looked around and waited for a second, before she shot out an acoustic flare. The loud ringing rang out from the little device, signaling something.

Suddenly, lightning appeared from the sky out of nowhere, hitting the ground in the middle of the smoke as everyone exited the cloud. A roar sounded from behind them as they continue to ride forward. Many of the cadets, along with the commanders and captains, looked back, wondering if Eren transformed, only to stare in shock that Eren was still in the wagon, unconscious.

Everyone looked back as the Titans broke out of the smoke and were instantly attacked by a smaller Titan. It had sharp claws and sharp teeth, but it still had the face of a normal Titan. It was very small and very fast, killing Titan after Titan as they appeared from the smoke; when one Titan broke out of the fog, it instantly jumped to it and tore out the nape before moving on to the next one, making sure each Titan was actually dead before doing so.

"Tell everyone to hurry up, we need to get out of here now!" Sasha yelled at a shocked Levi.

Levi broke out of his shock and nodded to the other riders to continue forward. At some point, Mikasa and the blond cadet made it back to the rest of the group, looking back at the now fighting Titan.

Erwin was in the front with Hanji and Mike looking at the new Titan shifter in shock.

"Forward!" Erwin yelled after he pulled himself together. That got everyone's attention, and they all started to pull forward, leaving the fighting Titans behind.


They continued on for almost an hour until they finally stopped in a clear area.

"Confirm your positions and move out immediately!" someone yelled. "Keep your guard up!"

"We need to adjust our course a bit to the east," someone else said, looking over a map. Right behind them, the cadet who went back for his dead friend was standing there alone. Captain Levi ended up stopping next to him, getting his attention.

"Captain Levi..." the cadet stated, looking at him with a stoic and sad expression. "I..."

"You went back without permission," Levi started. The cadet looked down in shame. A little bit further away, Sasha was glaring at the cadet. "What you did was-"

"Selfish," Sasha stepped in, getting both of their attention on her. The cadet looked down in shame and Levi just nodded at her to continue. "What you did was selfish... you called Commander Erwin selfish for not going back for your friend, and look at what happened..." she snapped at him, glaring. "You couldn't even get his body back... Even worse, you're the reason that your other friend is dead now too. You could have cost everyone their lives. That was irresponsible, childish, and most of all, selfish of you," she explained angrily.

"Sasha, that's enough," Levi started but was cut off.

"No... Do you have any idea what could have happened if that Titan didn't appear when it did?" she asked him. He just looked at her, not bothering to move or say anything. The cadet was just waiting for her to snap at him again. "We would have had to get rid of all the bodies of the fallen... We would have had to leave many people behind because they wanted to be selfish... because they wanted to bring closure to themselves and to their families... I want you to tell me right here, right now... Were you going to go to every house inside of the walls telling them that their children died because you decided to go back for your friend that you didn't even bring back... How were you going to bring closure to the families of the other 25 people who died? Explain it to me right here," she snapped at him. It was silent all around as everyone was just looking at her.

"Sasha..." Krista started as she approached. "Please calm down... They just wanted to bring closure to themselves and their families."

"You have to understand... Krista... If that Titan didn't appear and we continued to run, they would have caught up to us. We would have all been dead," she told her in a much softer voice. She could never raise her voice to the person she once called her Queen.

"Yes, I understand that, but he's grieving right now... let's leave him alone... Why don't you help me find Ymir?" Krista asked her kindly.

"I'm right here," Ymir said as she came out of nowhere. She nodded at Sasha before they both walked away.

"Move out!" someone yelled once everyone calmed down. They were all looking at Sasha with a confused look, but they continued forward.


The journey back to the walls was mostly silent. No one dared say a word. At some point, Eren woke up and started to talk to Mikasa. By the time they made it to the walls, it was almost sundown. They were slowly and quietly walking through the town after they opened the gate for them.

"There fewer of them than there were this morning," someone in the crowd said.

"A lot fewer."

"This one ended badly."

"They left this morning cheering, but they're already back."

"What did they go for anyway?"

"It's anyone's guess... But judging by the grim looks on their faces, I'd say they succeeded in throwing our taxes down the gutter."

The scouts continued to hear everyone talk s*** about them as they walked through the town. None of them dared fight back, knowing full well that they might as well be right.

Jean was walking slowly, holding the reins of his horse, with Reiner beside him, who was looking down at the ground, deep in thought.

Armin looked down in shame as he let his blond hair cover his eyes.

Krista was walking close to Ymir, and Ymir was making sure no one dared looked at Krista in any bad way.

Sasha was walking with a glare on her face, staring at the ground, next to Connie, who was holding her hand. He was slightly afraid that she would get into some kind of fight, so holding her hand was his best option at calming her down. Bertholt was right behind them, looking at Sasha with a deep stare, expecting her to turn around and face him, but she did no such thing.

They were all the way in the back, but they could hear people yelling at Erwin to answer them and asking him if their children's sacrifice was worth whatever they went outside the walls for.

They made it back to their hidden castle by nightfall, and by then, they already had word that Erwin was summoned to the capital and that Eren would be handed over to the authorities.


After they made it back, they all went to their rooms. Sasha was called in to talk with Erwin, Mike, Hanji, and Levi again. This time they asked Connie and Jean to join them in the meeting, along with Krista, Ymir, Eren, Armin, and Mikasa.

Sasha honestly knew it was time...

Time to tell them all the truth about everything.

And she didn't have time to break everything down for them.

Annie was going to attack the capital soon...

And that meant the Beast titan was going to make its move as well.

She only hoped that luck was on her side, and that everything went according to plan.


Q and A


Athena D-( ) I'm a little confused, are eld and Gunther still alive or did they die?

*Yes, they are alive:)

JCurse- (Ao3) do you have an upload schedule for this?

*After a chapter comes out I usually wait until maybe six to seven days pass by or until I remember I have a story to write

MDM11- ( ) Could you have Sasha tell Levi about Kenny?

*I will think about it... no spoilers or anything so...

Athena D-( ) in chapter 7 you said that Sasha was there to witness Nanaba's death but in the anime, she was in her village saving Kaya. Does this mean that Sasha never saves Kaya in this story?

*Ummm... I haven't seen the show in so long... I forgot... I'm going to change it i promise but... yeah thank you for pointing it out to me I never noticed I made that mistake. and its fine you helped me notice my mistake

Guest- ( )Sorry for asking so many questions but I'm a little confused. I think in chapter 7 Sasha said that she confronted Ymir about her being a titan. Was that true or was she making it up?

*yup :) it was true. I will be writing a side episode about it later


Chapter Questions


Question 1: what did you think about the change of outcome with the Jaw titan Saving everyone

Question 2: what did you think when Sasha confronted the Cadet that went back for his dead friend.

Question 3: Was it moving too fast or was the speed of it good

Question 4: any Questions for me

Question 5: Should Sasha go with Levi and the rest of the Levi Squad to Petra and Oluo's family to tell them that they have passed on...

Edited by QueenOfAces

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