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The bedsheets chilled their bodies with sweat-soak, rumpled beneath them. They lay side by side, David and Jonthan, and, behind their blindfolds, they traced the arc their drones made over earth. Lux levels rose in golden bars just outside their vision as the drones dipped through clouds cover and flew past domed cityscapes. Chicago glowed through a blanket of clouds. The drones swooped upward and dwarf galaxies turned from cosmic smudges into multihued ninja shurikens.
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