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ENCOUNTER #4PLAZA ECONTOROThe plaza outside the Cafe Kulfi is a piece of marsh most of the way to becoming a meadow, with a thick patch of oaks at the edge. More tube-fish, of an exotic high-pressure variety, grazed endlessly at the icy walls. Outside, the thunder receded and while the lightning played in the clouds, there was little sound but for the rain and the wind. What would they think if they knew who he was? Would they shrink back from the terror of the Lord God’s wrath? Or would a deed

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