Sasaru

The Sasaru claimed that desperation is the mother of improvisation ....

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But with my Sasaru master centuries gone, I applied my gifts according to my judgments, not his.

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Here was the penultimate view: Sasaru image-windows all around, three hundred sixty degrees of unimpeded magnificence.

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Then engineer-artists such as Almesh O'Rayn created weapons potent enough to fight back and Sasaru engineer-warriors, led by Queen Gloudin, who was reputedly almost as tough as a Givvern herself, went hunting.

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At the entrance, the mountaineer glared at the terrifying examples of Sasaru zoology I'd portrayed with Vist's guidance.

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And Doctor Weiss, my pallor is also a result of Sasaru limitations.

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While humans were still cowering in trees, the Sasaru were mastering recombinant spacetime.

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Today, Aetum forgive me, I wish the Sasaru had drowned in the ocean of time without leaving even a ripple.

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"It's a Sasaru art-form," I said quickly, placing my left arm casually across the entrance as if I needed something to lean on.

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I'm no Sasaru, but normally I could have snapped the cord around my wrist in seconds.

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