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   I walked forward holding Lily's hand lightly. She smiled and looked down.
   "I just, I don't understand." She said, her smile dropping.
   "Understand what?" I asked looking her in the eyes.
   "Why, why us?" She said tearing up.
   "I don't know, but we'll get through this." Just as I said that, I saw the same decaying creature from before. Lily screeched and grabbed a knife from her back pocket and stabbed the creature. It groaned/screeched and shrunk to the ground. She exhaled loudly and kept walking.
"Nice one." I said high-fiving her. She smiled.
"Thanks." She replied. We kept walking until we came across a bright yellow light.
   "Do we go through?" Lily asked.
   "I think we should." I said. So we walked towards it, and went through.

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