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Deep Desert
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Transcript Excerpt From the Interrogation of a Kirab Fighter
I’m telling you, the worm got them all! I can’t rat on my mates, because they’re all gone. I can’t admit to murdering the rival gang, because it was the bloody worm!

Look… sometimes we have dealings in the deep desert. The coriolis storms, the bigger sandworms, it keeps prying eyes away. Satellites don’t even fly over that area! There’s prizes too, spice and shipwrecks and hidden labs, if you believe those rumors. We were there to gut a wreck.

Then, this other gang comes encroaching in. I don’t know who they were. I didn’t stop to make bloody introductions. There was a fight commencing! Then…

*several minutes of sobs and indecipherable sounds*

It got ‘em. All of them. Teeth. More teeth than stars. Ground opened up. A great circle. Swallowed the wreck and everyone but me. Got a good look. Straight down into it. Damn my eyes! Shouldn’t have looked. My mates tumbling down into hell. I…

What? Yeah I’m sure! The mouth was a ring! Why is that bloody important?! Who cares what—

*sounds of several sound blows followed by whimpers*


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