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"He comes!"

"He will save us!"

"He will kill them all!"

"The Seer has spoken! He comes!"

"I might die…but my children will live! The time has come!"

A brief moment of silence followed the woman's words, and after that…all of those condemned to death nearby took up these chants, throwing them into the air with much more strength and vigor than that which had fuelled their desperate cries before.

They all echoed in Daneel's mind, but all of his attention was fixed on the lady who seemed to be almost withering in front of his eyes after speaking her message. It seemed like an illusion, at first, as he saw her skin age visibly in front of his eyes, then show the bones underneath while an hour of decay sprung up about her, turning her into an old woman in a second from the one in her prime that she had been until now. Her voice was even more hoarse, now, but she still used it to whisper one last thing.