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The AFR raid the Antitois

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and, now, turning, heart loud in his head, can now see, in the carefully placed display mirrors’ angles, spikes of light off rotary metal rotating at a height about waist-level to a huge standing man w/ broom clutched to barrel chest, there are great quiet numbers of persons in wheelchairs moving in the room with him, in the shoproom, moving calmly into position behind waist-high glass counters full of wacky notions.

Context

Lucien Antitoi's last minutes: the AFR announce themselves as "spikes of light off rotary metal rotating" in the shop mirrors — the wheel, the assassins' own annulus, glimpsed in reflection before the violence.

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