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Feigned Hypnosis Reprisal

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Cheating death with a masquerade veneer, faking the failed attempt to hypnotize, the prisoner showed no pain as suture closed the deep knife wound bathed in crimson blood. His eyes were closed, ebony thoughts within, blackened to obscurity by his pain. But his revenge would rear up like a snake coiled up and seemingly aloof, hiding behind his opaque compliance and accord. The razor blade hidden beneath his tongue would soon be slashing searing and cutting deep within his enemy's foul, brown flesh.

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