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Weekly Contest #74
Cynthia only had ten days to prevent something terrible. The owl had come to her in her sleep, waking her with its deep hooting that echoed through her open window. In her room, the moonlight shone through to reveal the silhouette of the raptor in the tree, and she laid there counting his cries. Ten total - that’s how she knew the number of days. But when it came time for the bird to reveal itself fully, to supply the final clues as to what terrible news it had brought to her, the owl instead flew away, easily escaping her view as she strugg...
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