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 | | Raincloud, a pregnant priestess and diplomat from planet Bronze Sky, was expert in a form of martial arts dance that symbolized the difficulty of balancing human needs. |
 | | In Reyo, a dying city on the planet L'li, a malnourished orphan named 'jum looks up from the desperate shack in which she lives to see a bright star. |
 | | The residents of the planet L'li, for example, are dying from "creeping sickness," a plague caused by prions, microbial proteins that cause slow paralysis of the limbs and eventual death. |
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