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"Although it was not yet very cold, they tried lighting watch-fires at night, but they soon gave that up. It seemed to bring hundreds of eyes all round them, though the creatures, whatever they were, were careful never to let their bodies show in the little flicker of the flames. Worse still it brought thousands of dark-grey and black moths, some nearly big as your hand, flapping and whirring round their ears. They could not stand that, nor the huge bats, black as top hats, either; so they gave up fires and sat at night and dozed in the enormous uncanny darkness."
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[ February 14, 2003: Message edited by: Hirilaelin ]