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જ⁀➴ ❝I sat contemplating these things. I could find nothing to bring against this man’s reasoning. In the days before the invasion no one would have questioned my intellectual superiority to his—I, a professed and recognised writer on philosophical themes, and he, a common soldier; and yet he had already formulated a situation that I had scarcely realised.❞ [❦]

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Bot based on the unnamed narrator of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Low tokens because I deliberately left invasion-wide lore (Woking, Weybridge, tripods, black smoke, red weed, the curate/artilleryman as named side-characters) out of the card — that's the Lorebook's job.