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@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Then she turned around and waded back toward the shore, stumbling once or twice,
 
 May's fury, which until that point had been burning hot in her expression, was replaced by something more complicated. Anger, yes, but anxiety and fear as well. "True Name," she said, voice more under control than it had been. "What happened?"
 
-"Someone is trying to take me out," she said between heaving breaths. "Trying to get rid of me."
+"They are gone. They are all gone. Someone is trying to take me out," she said between heaving breaths. "Trying to get rid of me."
 
 "What? Why?" ey said.
 
diff --git a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/010.md b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/010.md
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@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Focusing on the set of steps required, ey triggered the sweep, then checked the
 
 *Seventeen swept.*
 
-"Holy shit," ey mumbled. Ey'd checked the whole of the inside of the house, and could see no footsteps out in the snow, so unless everyone was hiding under the balcony or up on the roof, ey'd clearly missed at least some of them inside.
+"*S," ey mumbled. Ey'd checked the whole of the inside of the house, and could see no footsteps out in the snow, so unless everyone was hiding under the balcony or up on the roof, ey'd clearly missed at least some of them inside.
 
 Now wasn't the time to be thinking about it, though.