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He dropped me off in a big bowl filled with cold water.
He washed my feet with a weird, bubbly, and foamy water.
He put a weird slimy mix onto the wound before packaging it with cloth.

I giggled.
In the sea world,
we just use loose seaweed to patch wounds.

But the red of the blood continue to seep through.
Even if each step is painful,
The ember in my heart is a hot flame
That continues to burn.

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