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…showed last 75 words of 642 total…to the waiting hands of still worse fiends. I felt my strength deserting me, yet my claws bound fast. My hatred rose higher, yet my power was gone. I twisted in pain, the bleeding sinews deep in my shoulder snapped, muscle and bone split, and broke off. I fled back to my cave, broken and bleeding, agonizing in my defeat. I crawled to the back of my cave, hoping to die with every ragged breath.