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Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Ends
Flesh
Light
Seek
Mean
Terrible
Things
Blood
Sleep
Fading
Means
Emerge
Night
Soft
Another
Hot

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