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Weekly Contest #86
The noise. The noise was too much. He was going to go insane—he couldn’t hear his own thoughts anymore, did he even HAVE any thoughts, or was every tiny whisper just a spider, or a bird flying by? I bless you with the ability to understand. To know what the creatures around you say. A blessing, yeah, right. A curse. A horrific, insanity-inducing curse that made him able to hear every animal around him, let him know what they were saying. And most of it was just noise. That bird was wondering if her eggs would hatch, that spider was worried...
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