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Chapter 26: Trophy
The slope had already made it clear about the situation, and that was that the situation belonged exclusively to him, which was the sort of territorial claim terrain makes when it knows it can’t be fought against. Proxy had, by now, stopped complaining about the slope as a matter of policy.
He had accepted it in the only way the slope seemed willing to acknowledge, which was by descending sideways. It felt less like a decision and more like inevitability when the roots he had been relying on as handholds withdrew their cooperation and the mud contributed its own interpretation of gravity.
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