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191 VIGILANTES (coercively serious) We will protect our values! We will protect our legumes’ modesty! We will protect the new government’s modesty! We will protect our new modesty! FOURTH WORLD TRAVELLER A fount of fear gushed from the batch of modest tailoring. The floor turned nasty. A pea struggled up and spat on the pile of clothes. Vigilantes (of the new government) were put out by this and beat it to pulp. VIGILANTES (dead serious) We will protect! We will protect! We will protect! FOURTH WORLD TRAVELLER After this, the lentil bean did not see any more. An old woman placed a pot of water on the fire, and cackled. The cackle hummed a little tune with dew forming on its tip. The legumes dragged themselves to the pot, eyes streaming with fear and grief and adamancy. Vigilantes (of the new government), with contortive brutishness and a final hyper-incantation, exited. The old woman remained silent. LEGUME GRAINS (submerged)

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