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Nothing was clear to Susan until she saw the man with the long red hair and the straw hat which did not quite obscure his lamb-slaughterer’s eyes; the man with the cornshucks in his hands. He was the first, just a farmer... standing by himself not far from the place where Silk Ranch Road and the Great Road intersected, standing in the light of the rising moon.
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Oh man, I was not prepared for first person POV of someone about to be executed.