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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Tick
Heroic
Showing
Catch
Mercy
Anybody
Smiting
Keep
Lucian
Good
Nodded

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