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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"When I woke up in my safe shelter, there was not even a scratch on me. The hunting knife that had been stuck in my abdomen now lay harmlessly beside me with my blood dried brown on its surface. I lifted the soiled and ragged night gown I had been dressed in for the past few months and explored my now healed skin. The only proof the stabbing ever occurred is the pink raised scar just above my belly button. I realizespan style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" all /spanmy wounds are healed. I'm free of pain for the first time since waking up in this life and I start to cry. I brace my hands on the wall of my cocoon and rest my forehead against the wall and chant 'thank you' whenever physically possible between my soft sobs. I use my whole being and will my gratitude to the greenery surrounding me in hopes of expressing the sheer magnitude of my thankfulness./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She was squatting in the attic of an abandoned warehouse just off the docks. Her perch would never have been accessible if it weren't for her abilities. She grew strong thick vines on the side of the building which created a sort of trellis she was then able to climb up into an opening in the ceiling where the roof had collapsed inward. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She also realized that technologically, this universe was slightly more advanced then her old one. Apple didn't exist but was replaced with a mega corporation called Stark Industries that used to specialize in weapons until a few years ago. She read some old magazine articles containing interview with the young stark CEO and found the guy to be amusing with his sarcasm./p
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