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She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.

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Brandon Mull
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: November 8
Novelist
Writer
Utah
United States
Rewards
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Brave
Cave
Whose
Refused
Quiet
Caves
Strange
Rescue
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Heroic
Thinking
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Devoured
Slowly
Neil

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