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Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
Author
Novelist
the United States of America
Dies
Colour
Leafs
Lasts
Skin
Leaf
Spikes
Last
Red
Meal
Assassin
Change
Leaves
Veins
Sheds
Men
Skins
Weed
Assassins
Otherwise
Shed
Pumps
Tree
Meals
Spreading
Full
Poison
Burst

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