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	Message: : UNSCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 2047 08.30.2337 : [Data Transfer from Clausana] : Host [39.59.19.21] : [Transfer Donner] : [Error Unknown] : [Transfer Donner] : [Error Unknown] : [Interior Error] : ***MESSAGE RECEIVED*** : The reindeer had been floating seven feet off the floor for 12 days. Her : hooves tingled, and her eyes burned with the flames of a dying fire. She : had last heard someone speak to her as the barn door slammed shut. She : didn't remember what the fat man in red had said. The words had bounced : off the walls of the barn and rang through the reindeer's ears. The : reindeer had been talking to herself for the last few minutes, something : about a partridge, but then her ears began to tingle just like her hooves. : She looked at her hooves, but the fire in her eyes made her blink. Tears : came, and when she opened her eyes again, her hooves had been melted into : horny pancakes that wafted in the ripples flowing over the fire in her : eyes. : "Damn barn," she heard someone say. "Last time I had a good : meal was three days ago. The food they feed you in here could kill an : elf." : Elves. She had remembered something about elves. But her ears began to ring : again and the voice speaking to her faded off into the background of her : mind. In its place, there was a new sound, the clopping of hooves : together. She blinked hard to made out her hooves again. They had : disappeared; her limbs connected at the shanks. : She thought back to the time she was pawing the tundra. She remembered the : sound of her hooves on the earth, a gentle scrapping. Scrapping away now : inside her ears, trying to tear down her thoughts. There had been a : reindeer with a red nose. Her antlers were like his now. The antlers of : someone who had tried too many times to leap into the sky. She had been : pulling a sled for everyone else in life, but never for herself. Two : turtle doves, like herself, had been put into prison, and she didn't know : why. : "Can't sleep in here, if the smell of this musty straw doesn't make you : sick, then the sound of the elves creeping inside the walls will keep you : up. You'll wake up from your dreams to their little giggling. Sometimes I : think that they are giggling at me..." The voice was coming from : inside the barn, but the reindeer couldn't see anyone. : The reindeer hadn't always been alone, she could vaguely recall from : somewhere inside her broken mind that there had been five golden rings, : seven swimming swans, a fat man. : She recalled a theory she had come up with after one Christmas haul. The : theory was simple. At some point in time, everyone was Santa. Whether or : not they ever felt jolly, they had all wanted milk and cookies. Chimneys. : Everyone hatred tiny chimneys. The reindeer had seen too many inadequate : chimneys. The fat man had laughed at shoddy roof-work, a laugh which now : echoed through her ears, rhythmically blocking out the other voice in the : barn. : The barn was usually a place where the reindeer and her friends would play, : but today, there was an edge. Maybe everyone had drunk too much eggnog, or : maybe there was too much smoke in the air from the toy factory. Reindeer : games had been extremely rough. The one with the red nose got tackled by : six pregnant geese. But today, even flying had an evil twist. The clouds : stormed ice and made fun of the sun. The reindeer had decided that it was : an evil day. When the fat man started to push her around, she exploded. : Hatred flowed from her eyes, her hooves began to tingle. All of her : coordination left her, and her antlers cracked, broken, and a bloody mess. : The fat man had been slow to notice the ensuing carnage, and he didn't : really care anyway. : The reindeer would have killed him if she could have. She would have torn out : the eyes of the fat man. She would have made him pay for his abuses. But : her hooves had begun to tingle. She couldn't feel her hooves and she had : begun to float off the ground. Everyone was Santa, but the reindeer : couldn't remember her reason for why that was so. She thought it was : something about hooves, the passion for justice. Her hooves and feet had : begun to tingle, and she was floating farther off the floor. She looked up : from her hooves, and she saw the doors of the barn, moving left and right, : opening wide and then closing shut. Every time that she thought she would : be safe, the hinges creaked, the opening closing, the doors swinging, : crashing. The result would be the same, she would never escape. The doors : would crush her, break her back. : She could feel the roughness of the straw under her hooves, for all the : motion of the barn door around her, her hooves had come to rest serenely : upon the barn floor. Her body tossed and flipped, pivoting about her : hooves under which she could feel the safe, coarse straw. The doors : crashed one final time, she landed upside down, her hooves thrown clear : from the straw covered bottom, the rush of the windmill filling her ears, : her nose, her mouth, the sound of crashing barn doors cascading down from : her feet to her head - penetrating her mind to tear down thoughts. Like : the straw nest she had built to withstand the cold, her thoughts came down : around her. : The reindeer had a good life, so much time, so much time. She had loved : hauling, flying, jingling. She had loved the tingle in her hooves, her : inability to kill the fat man. Once she had fallen off the hay loft, and : just for a moment, her hooves came to rest on the rung of the ladder. In : that instant, her body had frozen, floating over the barn floor, safe from : falling, but the moment didn't last. The barn crashed about her, her : hooves torn free from the straw covered bottom, her body flipping, : falling. : But now she levitated farther up, her hooves still tingling. She began to : float through the roof, she expected the instant of safety as her hooves : found footing, but that moment did not come, the shingles squeezed her : body. Her chest tingled. As she rose through the roof, her legs tingled. : The fire in her eyes had become a cold wind, she blinked away tears. She : tumbled through the roof, spinning and turning, she could see the fat man. : In his hand she saw a small elf. A pounding, the crashing barn doors in : her ears became rhythmical, hard. The fat man was beating the elf against : the floor. Pounding, pounding. Blood covered her hooves, the reindeer's : hooves tingled. She had broken them on the floor of the barn. Lord, : leaper, lady, dancer. The reindeer looked back into the barn. She saw : herself, piper, piping, drummer, drumming. She had killed the french hens. : The twelve days of Christmas lay dead under her bloody hooves. At last, : she stood on the throat of her tormentor. : She leapt into the clouds. : The clouds. : ***END MESSAGE*** : [Accept Next Message] : [Reply Unknown] : PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge
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