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    The two people standing, with matching, twisted bone colored masks, in the shape of warthogs. Both masked men carried large axes, strapped to their backs.

    This was strange, even for Borderland.

    He watched silently as the pair moved around their campsite with a disquieting ease. They didn’t speak to each other. Instead, they were carefully examining the place. When one of them checked out the empty tents, a brief flash of anger flew through Chishiya; that was their home, their safe place. But he reined it in just as quickly. Anger would do neither of them good in this situation.

    With the fire still going, Chishiya knew that they assumed whoever lived there either was still there, or had left in a hurry.

    They sat around the fire, communicating somehow, without talking.

    Chishiya usually found the quietness of the warehouse as comforting, in many ways. But this quietness, it was eerie.

    They were waiting for the owners to come back.

    They were waiting for them.

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