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Port of Souls: Part 2

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May 14, 2026
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Port of Souls: Part 2

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

“The promise was not this,” she said, “this room.
Our final place was to be a great cave,
One replete with wealth of ages, servants
In flocks, those of a magical nature,
The mythic hippogryph, the sand serpent,
He the snake who in lowest bottoms lives,
The bowels of …

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