"How can the TARDIS be gone?!" Jack exclaimed.

"By vanishing into thin air, that's how." The Doctor muttered, and I shook my head. "Maybe for now, yeah, but I can assure you that the three of you will get out of here alive with the TARDIS."

"What about you, then?" Rose raised an eyebrow.

I shrugged. "I dunno, I'm not part of the show, so I have no idea what's gonna happen to me."

"I do." The Doctor muttered, and I looked up at him, frowning. "You're gonna get out of this safely." He slipped a hand into mine and I raised both my eyebrows. "And how can you guarantee that?"

"I'm the Doctor."

"And?"

"I'm the Doctor. Speaks for itself."

"It really doesn't."

The Doctor was about to say something, but was interrupted by Rose clearing her throat. The two of us turned to look at her as she gestured around. "Guys, we're in the middle of nowhere with no TARDIS. Is this really the best time to challenge his intelligence?" She looked at me, an accusatory tone in her voice.

"I'm pretty sure even Armageddon won't stop the-" Jack gestured to the two of us, "Whatever this is supposed to be."

I put my hands on my hips and scowled at him. "I believe it's called banter, and I need to get as much of it in as possible."

"Banter?" Jack scoffed. "Where I'm from, we call that sexual tension."

I coughed and felt the Doctor let go of my hand as the two of us stepped away from each other immediately. The blood and a wave of heat rushed to my cheeks, and I bit my lip hard.

"Can we have this conversation later?" Rose folded her hands and looked in between the three of us. "Middle of nowhere, remember? Doctor, what do we do?"

The Doctor was squatting on the ground, fiddling with the sand. He muttered something indistinct and continued with what he was doing.

"Doctor, this is no time to build a sandcastle, what the hell are we supposed to do?"

The Doctor ignored Jack (no surprise there) and continued poking around the sand. He scanned it with his sonic, and then took a handful of sand. He brought it close to his face and I cleared my throat. "Please don't tell me you're licking it, that's just unhygienic."

He turned to me, an eyebrow raised. "Liza, I might be old but I'm not senile. Who in their right mind would lick sand?!"

I shrugged, folding my hands. "I dunno, ask your future self."

The Doctor rolled his eyes and stood up, dusting his hands, "Now that you've established that I regenerate into an idiot, let me take the pleasure in telling you all what I've just discovered."

"That you can't build a sandcastle here and should instead scan for anything that might help us?" Jack scowled and I shrugged.

"Good luck on doing that, if you haven't forgotten, all our equipment's disappeared."

"Which is why what I just found out will help us, so if you both would kindly stop whatever the hell you were doing," I shook my head and turned to the Doctor, who grinned once he got our attention. "That sand isn't normal."

"Judging by the incident that happened ten minutes ago, I would say that."

"Excuse me, who was talking here?"

Jack's shoulders slumped and he looked down, muttering, "Sorry. Please continue your Shakespearean speech, oh great one."

I bit my lip to stop myself from laughing as the Doctor continued. "That sand has some sort of an oil mixed in it. Spaceship engine oil, to be precise."

"So you're saying someone's been here?" Rose said.

The Doctor grinned, shaking his head. "No, I'm saying someone could still be here! The oil's fresh, meaning they could've landed here recently! All we do is find them, get them to take us to the nearest planet, and figure things out from there!"

"What about the TARDIS?" He turned to me, an eyebrow raised. I shrugged, folding my hands. "I mean, you've still got at least ten seasons to live through, and the TARDIS is very much there in all ten of them, so we're bound to be reunited with her soon. We can't just leave without trying, can we?"

He shrugged. "I'm not gonna say anything regarding the ten seasons thing because your spoilers thing is just too much for me to take right now, but you're right. We can't just leave, so I have amended the plan. Ish."

"Ish?" Jack had a skeptical look on his face.

"I say we try to find some people and figure things out from there." Rose said.

"And if there's no people?" Jack looked at the Doctor.

"The Doctor said there might be people, so let's just assume that for the best."

"But we're not gonna achieve anything by standing here and contemplating what to do for the rest of eternity, are we?" Everyone turned to me. "Let's just go and find some people." I frowned, "A phrase I never thought I'd ever use, but that's beside the point."

"Go where? Everything looks the same here."

The Doctor buzzed his sonic and checked the readings. "Well, good thing I've got this, then. I've programmed it to pick up any traces of that engine oil, and we follow the trail." He started walking forward, the three of us starting to follow him.

"But we can't expect a ship to leak so much, can we?" Rose said, walking to stand next to the Doctor.

"Leak? Engine oil falling out at that rate, I expect it was a crash landing." The Doctor shook the sonic and squinted at it again. "And somewhere close, according to this."

"How close?"

"Bit of a walk. Won't be too draining." He put the sonic back in his pocket.

Turns out 'close' in Time Lord standards actually meant 'really far away but we're gonna pretend it's not that at all'. I wiped the sweat from my brow for the fiftieth time in the last- I don't even know how much time had passed since we'd started walking. My legs had turned into jelly, but I had to keep pulling them through the sand and keep walking so as to not fall behind.

We had no sense of time or place as we followed the Doctor, who was happily chatting away, Rose listening intently and adding her own points here and there. How she was able to talk to him and walk and not be tired at all baffled me. I, on the other hand, was walking next to Jack, who also seemed to be holding up better than I was (which was no surprise, even a Black Spot affected Rory could hold out better than me- although, he's Rory- forget I said that). Everything in me seemed to be sluggish. I couldn't think about anything as my brain had turned into jelly as well. A very runny jelly that seemed to beat down on me. The heat made me sweat a lot more than I would've preferred, making it seem like it was melting both my body and brain. My breathing became shallower, and I'd started to breathe with my mouth instead of my nose, despite the fact that I kept getting a metallic, sandy taste every time I inhaled.

"You okay?" I turned to Jack, who had apparently slowed down to wait for me. I sighed, wiping more sweat. "Do I look like I'm okay?" The words came out in ragged breaths as I trudged forward.

"You look like you want to murder someone, if that helps."

I forced a smile. "I do, don't I? And of course, it would be convenient for me to kill the person nearest to me."

He scoffed. "You wouldn't,"

"I very much might."

"You don't even have a murder weapon."

"Jack. I am tired, annoyed, and I want a brownie." I glared at him, and he backed away slightly. "Do you really wanna test me?"

"Of course not, I was just trying to make conversation."

"Look!" Jack and I looked forward at Rose, who was grinning and excitedly pointing forward at some silhouettes of buildings in the distance. "People!"

"Those are buildings." I deadpanned, and she raised an eyebrow.

"She wants to murder someone, that's why she sounds like that." Jack said, and the Doctor turned around, frowning.

"Speak for me and I will murder you." I scowled, and said, "Not murder, per se, but I do feel like throwing something at someone."

The Doctor nodded slowly, grinning. "Okay, now that that's out of the way-"

"It really isn't, but whatever. I have no energy to argue with you right now."

He scowled at me and shrugged, lifting his sonic. "The sonic's scans say that the engine oil leads here. By leads, I mean the ship crashed somewhere around there," He pointed to a large expanse of sand in front of us.

"And a side effect of it crashing was it becoming invisible?" I muttered, walking to stand next to the Doctor.

"More like the side effect was absorption by sand."

"Like what could've happened to the TARDIS?" Rose said, and he nodded.

"Probably." The Doctor shrugged. "Hopefully the people didn't get sucked in by the sand too."

"You're accepting that as a possibility now?!" Jack exclaimed.

I looked up at him. "Have you forgotten who you're talking to?"

"Better to be optimistic, don't you think?" The Doctor grinned. "Come on, then, we're almost there!" He took my hand and started walking forward, looking at his sonic every few moments.

After some more walking, we finally reached the buildings, and that was when I realised that there was a huge chance we were all probably screwed. The "buildings" we were walking toward were actually ruins of what seemed to be a one-storeyed palace or a strip mall (who knew? We were on an alien planet). There were rocks jutting out of the sand, some of them having carvings or writing on them. The whole place looked like nobody had come there in a long time.

"Are you sure the spaceship crashed here, Doc?" Jack came to stand next to us. "It looks like no spaceship could've crashed here in at least a hundred years."

The Doctor frowned, hitting the sonic and squinting at it. "That's weird, the sonic said it was fresh-"

Jack scoffed, picking up a rock from the ground. "As fresh as this rock." He showed it around. It had carvings of a person performing some sort of a ritual with something that looked like it was shining. "Which is at least a century old."

"Don't say things like that, Jack, the last time someone thought the Doctor was wrong, it turned out to be the opposite." Rose said.

I nodded, turning to look at the buildings. Well, turns out it was a good thing I did, because we would've probably been toast otherwise. I pulled onto the Doctor's hand, and he looked at me, frowning. "What?"

"Doctor, the sand's acting- Holy mother of the Racnoss!" The sand, which seemed to rise up, materialised into a humanoid figure with red glowing eyes. Soon, more started forming.

"Oh, hello!" The Doctor grinned at the figures. "I'm the Doctor and these are my friends! How are you today?"

"The sand just materialised into a bunch of freaky creatures and the first thing you do is say hello to them?!" Jack yelled, pulling me and Rose behind him. I ignored Jack and went to stand next to the Doctor. Someone would have to drag him away in case he did something stupid.

The creatures seemed to ignore him as they started moving towards us. "Are you not able to understand me?" He said something again in another language, but they ignored him and walked toward us, their fists raised. My eyes widened and I grabbed his wrist. "Okay, I don't speak Sentient Sand, but I know that's not good."

I pulled him along with me as I started running toward the ruins, which proved to be really hard judging by the fact that I was running on foot deep sand. However, I didn't have to struggle too much for long because the Doctor finally seemed to come to his senses and start running by himself. However, he didn't let go of my hand, which I was grateful for since he was basically steering me away from the sand things.

"Oh God, they're following us!" Rose screamed from behind us.

"I think that's supposed to be the point!" I yelled back, and she replied, "Oh thanks, I didn't know that!"

The Doctor and I reached the nearest building and dashed up the stairs to what looked like a sealed door that would usually open upwards. I tried pushing the door up, but it didn't budge. Soon, Jack and Rose started helping me with it as the Doctor started buzzing it with his sonic. "Why isn't it bloody working?!"

"I dunno, it's either deadlocked or your sonic is ruined!" I turned around, my back facing the wall, as I tried to push it upward that way. However, that provided its own problem. The sand creatures weren't that far behind. In fact, they were just a few feet from the stairs. "Oh God, they're fast!"

"And the damn door is still not opening!" Jack yelled, pounding on it.

"I don't think that's gonna help!"

"Gee thanks, Rose, I would've never done that if I'd known!"

I turned around, pushing the door upward again. "Oh yeah, because sarcasm always helps!"

At that moment, a loud creak sounded from the door as it started opening, and I gasped. "Would you look at that, it does help!"

The door opened fully, and we came face to face with two people, who were standing in the distance with a huge bucket of water. "Get in!" One of them yelled, and the moment I ran inside, I was splashed with said water, sand falling down everywhere and eventually flowing out of the somewhat sloped entrance. I gasped after I got over the initial cold and shock, wiping it off my eyes and looking up as the faint thud of the door closing.

I was face to face with a man and a woman who seemed roughly my age. They were both blonde and looked alike, like they were either siblings or twins. "Sorry about the water," The woman said, putting the bucket down, "It was a precaution."

"What?" I sputtered, blinking to adjust to the dim light in the area. With the sand monsters and the water and the change in environment, my brain seemed to have decided it was going to go on holiday.

"Even the slightest bit of sand can form those things." A dark haired woman walked toward us. I blinked, shaking my head and trying to get used to the new environment and actually see things properly.

The woman was wearing a camo outfit that looked like what River was wearing in the Time of the Angels. She looked older than the two other people there, but she looked good for her age. Jack seemed to think the same, as he was staring at her open-mouthed. She ignored him and held out a hand to the Doctor. "Thelma Grayburke. Head of the Archaeology Department of Luna University, and these are my students." She gestured to the siblings behind her.

"Minus Valen, he's hiding out with the food stores." The guy snorted, and his sister scowled at him. "Lucas, why don't you do us all a favour and remember who's actually talking?"

Thelma looked behind her. "That would apply to you too, Luna." Luna scowled and turned to look at Jack, who gave her a knowing look.

Thelma turned back to the Doctor, pretending like nothing had happened. "Like I was saying, I'm the head of the Archaeology Department of Luna University. Who are you four?"

"I'm the Doctor." He took out his psychic paper and showed it to Thelma. She took it from him and looked at it. She looked in awe after reading whatever the hell he put in there. "Officers of UNIT?" She glanced at all of us, "Impressive. I'm assuming these are your trainees, then?"

"Yes." He said, walking into the corridor, "We accidentally crash landed here and our ship seems to have been absorbed by the sand."

"As was ours. However, we came here on purpose." She followed him and caught up to him. "To investigate the ruins, I mean."

"What happened here?"

"I'm not quite sure. All I know is that the sand keeps acting up and either absorbs things or turns into those things. That and the fact that we're stranded because of the blasted sand."

"Lucas thinks it's robots," I jumped and turned to Luna, who was standing next to me. "Sorry, what were you saying?"

"The sand. He thinks it's mini robots that are trying to kill us."

I frowned, "Why?"

She shrugged. "I dunno, he's always full of these stupid theories. I think the only reason I'm even half into this one is because it's better than Valen's curse theory,"

"He thinks the sand is cursed?"

She shook her head in amusement, "Nah, he thinks the whole planet is cursed. I had to drag him to even make him come on this expedition so he could at least have a little adventure in his life." She grabbed my wrist as I turned to walk in the direction the Doctor and Thelma had gone. "Where do you think you're going?"

I gestured to the corridor, "To follow the Doctor."

She shook her head. "Oh, no, you're not, Thelma's taken interest in him."

I frowned. "One, she met him thirty seconds ago, that's too short of a time for anyone to take interest in anyone, and two, what if she has?"

"Mate, she just led him into a corridor and told him everything she knew. That's rare for her." Lucas said from behind me. "And she hates it if anyone interrupts her when she's talking to her new subject of interest."

"Subject of- he's not a subject she can just study!" Rose protested, glaring at the corridor.

"I agree," I muttered, and Jack smirked. "Chill, greenie," He muttered, and I frowned at him. "The hell did you just say?"

He shrugged, and Lucas said, "Why don't you three come with us to the living quarters?"

"The what?"

"Well, that's where we keep all our equipment. Food, water, sleeping bags, you know, that kind of stuff. Valen's probably down there."

They started walking down another corridor that led in the opposite direction, but I stood still for a few moments. "But-"

Jack pulled my arm and dragged me along with him. "Relax, he's gonna be fine."

I rolled my eyes and sighed. "Fine, whatever."

We walked down the corridor for a few minutes, listening to Luna talk about whatever was going on with Rose. Lucas, Jack and I were a little behind them. "I say the sand is a bunch of mini robots," Lucas said, and Jack shook his head. "Oh no, after the whole 'Are you my mummy' fiasco, mini robots are the last thing I want to deal with."

Lucas raised an eyebrow and I laughed. "Our first, er, mission together involved a bunch of nanogenes which turned people into gas masked mutants that kept asking for their mummies."

Lucas nodded in understanding. "Nanogenes can be tricky to deal with. Luna tried to heal herself using them but ended up releasing a swarm into our dorm corridor and we had to call in Robot Control. She got detention for a whole week." We turned and entered a room which was considerably brighter than the corridors. "We're here, then."

The room was a definition of chaos. There were three sleeping bags strewn about in random places, and food cans were stacked up in every corner. Textbooks were piled high near a sleeping bag, on top of which a curly haired man was bent over a book. "Sorry about the mess," Luna said, as the boy on top of the sleeping bag looked up.

"Don't worry about it," I said, smiling at her.

She turned to Valen, who was looking at her questioningly. "Valen, these are, erm-" She turned to us sheepishly, "Sorry I don't know your names,"

I laughed, "I'm Liza Cole,"

"Rose Tyler,"

Jack walked over to Valen, smirking and holding a hand out, "Captain Jack Harkness. And you are?"

Valen coughed, shaking Jack's hand. "Erm, Valen Draghkar."

"Nice to meet you, Valen Draghkar," Jack sat next to him, leaning close, "What's that you're doing?"

Valen stammered and started talking to Jack as I groaned softly. "He always does this." Luna laughed, shaking her head. "Don't worry about it, Valen needs that. He's backed out of talking to at least seven blokes whom he thought were cute."

"It's a good thing Jack's here to flirt first, then." Rose muttered, coming to stand beside me.

"And a good thing the Doctor isn't. He would've shut it down immediately."

"That's similar to what Thelma would do, actually," Lucas said, scratching his head. He then stood straight and started talking in a weird voice, "There will be no hanky panky going on in-"

He was cut off as the string instruments from The Impossible Astronaut started sounding from my pocket. Lucas, Luna and Valen looked at me curiously as I took out my phone and looked at the caller ID. I frowned, looking up from the phone. "Jack, it says you're calling me."

He looked up from Valen's book. "What? I know I'm not calling-" He rummaged through his pockets and cursed. "Great. It's not here."

"I think I know who it is, then," I answered the phone and put it on my ear. "Hey Doc,"

Jack's eyes widened and he scowled, muttering something about getting better pockets.

"Jack's not overly pleased," I said.

"Yeah, I expected that. Anyway, where are you?"

"At the living quarters. Or at least that's what Luna calls them."

"Okay, you guys will need to come to the main area. Thelma and I have made an, er, executive decision."

I laughed. "A what now?"

"Come to the main area." My eyes widened as Thelma had apparently taken the phone from the Doctor. She hung up the phone immediately and I slowly pulled the phone away from my ear.

"What happened?" Rose frowned. "You were laughing one moment and now you look like you've seen a ghost."

"That was, er, Thelma."

"No, that was the Doctor. You wouldn't have laughed like that if it wasn't." Jack stood up and came to stand in front of me.

I shook my head. "No. Well, yes." Everyone was staring at me quizzically. "Yeah, he was the one who called me, but Thelma took the phone from him at the end."

Luna nodded in understanding, "Yeah, she does that. A lot. What did she say?"

"We've got to go to the main area. Apparently they've made an 'executive decision'."

"A what?" Rose raised an eyebrow.

"That was exactly what the Doctor told me. And judging by his tone, I'm probably gonna be the first to argue against it."

"No way. No bloody way we're doing that!"

"That is probably the most absurd decision anyone can make! How do we know the sand isn't gonna mess up this time?"

"I recognise that you've made a decision. But given that it's a stupid ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

Jack, Rose and I exclaimed over each other in the main area, to Thelma's dismay, and to the Doctor's amusement. Looks like he wasn't a fan of the 'executive decision' either.

"Everybody just keep quiet!" Thelma exclaimed. After we'd all shut up, she continued. "We will be arranging for a distress call, and that's final!"

"And how do you know the sand isn't gonna swallow the rescue ship?" Jack said, "Or have you become the self proclaimed sand whisperer?"

Thelma did not look amused. "What would you suggest then?" I frowned at her tone, but shrugged it off as Jack said, "How about we actually find out what's going on and get to our ship and get out?"

"Your ship's been absorbed by the sand."

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean we can't get her back." I said, and she raised an eyebrow. "And what's your proof for that?"

"I know about events that take place in the distant future, and they involve our ship being with us."

Thelma scoffed. "That's more absurd than Valen's curse theory."

Valen furrowed his eyebrows, looking like he wanted to burrow into the ground and never come out. Jack, however, frowned. "Don't insult his intelligence!"

"What curse theory are you talking about?" Rose turned to Valen, who turned to Thelma.

"It's not intelligence, it's just superstition." Thelma sniffed, as Jack glared at her. "And anyway, that is of no matter to us, as we are building something that can help us make a distress call and get out of here."

"But seriously, what Jack said makes sense. What if the sand does absorb the ship? We'll have to find a way to somehow neutralise it, or I dunno, do something about it," I said, shrugging.

"She has a point," The Doctor said, throwing his sonic up and down and catching it. "Maybe we could get a sample of the sand and perform our own experiments on it."

"No," Everybody turned to Luna, who sounded nervous. "I mean, even the smallest bit of sand can turn into those things. And I don't have a good feeling about touching it even when it's not one of those things."

"Why's that?" The Doctor leaned forward.

"It's just that, our other teacher touched one of them, and he got covered by the sand. And crumbled," Her voice was barely a whisper as she shrunk into the wall.

After a few moments of silence, I cleared my throat. "Well then, maybe a couple of us can go outside."

"No. Too dangerous." Thelma said, shaking her head, "We don't know when they could turn into those creatures."

"Well, I'm willing to take that risk, then."

The Doctor's head snapped toward me. "Excuse me? You're willing to take that risk?"

"Did you not hear me when I said it? Ten seconds ago?"

"There is no way you're going out there!"

"Says who?"

"Says me!"

"You're not the boss of me!"

"I don't care what you say, but I'm not gonna let you die!"

Jack cleared his throat, "If you'll both stop yelling at each other for a moment," He turned to the Doctor, "She doesn't have to go there alone. I'll go with her if that provides you any comfort."

"She's not going."

"Yeah, I think I'll be the judge of that, and I don't care what anyone says, I'm going and that's that." The Doctor opened his mouth, but I cut him off, "And don't you dare challenge me, Doctor, I'm a fully grown adult who is capable of making her own choices, and I choose to go."

The Doctor sighed. "Alright then, but I'm going with you."

"Absolutely not, Doctor," Thelma said, and he turned to her, his eyebrows raised. "You're the only one who seems to know what he's doing, and in case things get bad, you'll be the one who will be able to help."

He was about to say something, but I interrupted him. "I mean, she has a point."

"If it's any consolation, I'm open to go with her instead," Jack said, and the Doctor nodded. "Alright, but if anything happens to her-"

"It'll all be on me." He turned to me, "Doctor, seriously, I know you're worried, but I'll be fine. I promise."

He relaxed a bit, but his expression was still tense. "Alright, but only if we're in contact the whole time."

I nodded.

"Liza, remember,"

"Setting 56B, I know." I scanned the sand with the sonic, which sent the readings into Luna's scanner thing, and she would analyse and send the results to Thelma and the Doctor.

"That's weird," Luna muttered after a few moments.

"What's wrong?"

His voice was low, and was breaking up. "Doc, you're breaking up."

"The readings aren't clear," Luna muttered, "Like something's meddling with them."

"That can't be good," Jack pointed to the screen. "Liza, try again."

The Doctor said something, but it was very indistinct. "Doc, I can't hear you." The call suddenly got cut, and I frowned. "Looks like it's interfering with the phone connection as well."

I tried calling the Doctor again, but I was met with white noise. "What the hell?" I pulled the phone off my ear. "This isn't supposed to be happening."

I scanned the ground again, but the sonic conked out while I was doing so. "It affected the sonic?!"

"Nothing can affect the sonic!" Jack exclaimed. "Well, except for maybe wood and deadlock seals, but this is neither. Must be a hell of an interference."

I walked toward him and Luna, who was still trying to work the scanner. "Yeah, it must be. Whatever it is, it's not good."

She hit the scanner a couple of times, but it just turned off. She groaned in frustration. "Always when it's important!"

"I suggest we go back," Jack said, "We've already lost contact with the others, and there's nothing here that isn't affected by the interference."

I sighed. "As much as I hate to admit it, you're right."

We turned toward the buildings, ready to go back, when the sand rose again. "What the-"

Jack grabbed ahold of my arm and pulled me back. "It's turning into those things again!"

Well, turns out it did not turn into those things. However, after seeing what it turned into, I would've taken the sand monsters any day. The sand turned into a mini tornado which was blowing dust everywhere. I turned around, prepared to run in the other direction and go around it, when another tornado formed right in front of me.

"Bloody hell!" Luna screamed, dropping her scanner. The tornados started forming everywhere around us, and soon, we were surrounded. "What do we do now?!"

"I don't kn- Aah!" I screamed, grabbing onto whomever was nearest to me. The tornados had blocked my sight, so everything around me was just a silhouette at best. My foot sunk into the sand, like last time. However, this time, I was being dragged around in a spiral- the maelstrom had got us.

Everything then became a blur of screams, dust, pulling, and us holding onto each other. "We're gonna die!" Jack yelled.

"I really don't think so!" My voice became more and more high pitched as I was dragged deeper into the maelstrom. The sand from the tornados had gotten into my eyes, making me close them. Soon, I was waist deep into the sand. This was when the tornados started coming closer to us, until they were directly on top of us, burying us in the sand.

A/N: Wow, 5000 words- did not expect to do that. But I did, because 1) I wanted to finish this segment so that the next chapter can conveniently just be in the Doctor's POV, and 2) There was a word count I wanted to meet by the end of this chapter. Which brings me to my next announcement, which is that I've just hit 100K words on this fanfic (well, a bit more than that)!

Anyway, what do you guys think is happening rn? I know I forgot to post a chapter yesterday and I'm so sorry for that, but I'm hoping I don't forget again and keep posting steadily.

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