As soon as she stepped into the bar, every woman in the building
felt a flush of arousal. Many shivered, a few gasped, every conversation paused
for a moment. A few blushed hotly, a few fanned themselves. All felt a sudden,
unmistakable moistening of their nether lips. The cause was not immediately
evident to all, but as she walked through the room, heads turned and jaws
dropped, lips quivered and thighs squeezed together.
The tall Indian woman in the tight orange dress strode with
an easy confidence to the bar. Eyes tracked her, even as some couples tried to
resume their conversations, or otherwise pretended not to stare. The woman
glanced about the room and, for a moment, every woman who could see her held
their breath, even as they soaked their panties. Then, something seemed to pass
over the crowd. As if awakened from a daze, the women blinked or shook their
heads or cleared their throats, and managed to look away from the newcomer, as
if they’d suddenly decided she wasn’t all that interesting after all.
Devi was, in fact, probably one of the most interesting
women on the planet. However, she didn’t want to cause too disruptive a scene
just yet. So she allowed herself to fade into the background as just another
patron. Several sets of women, however, still stopped what they were doing, and
started kissing, or excusing themselves to the bathroom, or, when they thought
no one could see, started rubbing themselves a bit. They may have stopped
noticing the tall Indian woman, but their bodies did not forget the effect she
had.
Devi didn’t let herself be “hidden” for long. She strode to
the bar, going right up to the lady at the counter, a tall, handsome woman
who’d clearly been slinging drinks for a while. She looked up and smiled, and
was about to ask for the woman’s order. But as soon as the newcomer sat down in
front of her, she gulped, eyes widening. She managed to compose herself quickly
enough, however, and managed to force out the words. Devi was impressed.
“H-hi,” the bartender said. “What can I get you?”
“Rum and coke.” Her sultry voice sent tingles down the
woman’s spine.
“I, uh, I don’t think we have the rum today,” she said. “Ran
out over the weekend, new shipment hasn’t come in.”
Devi smiled warmly, and the bartender felt a tremor through
her body as her sex moistened. “Oh, I’m sure you have one bottle left.”
The bartender managed to tear her eyes away and check. Her
eyebrows raised as she spotted the tall glass bottle that she was sure hadn’t
been there a moment ago. “Huh. I… I guess we do.” She set about fixing the
drink, her hand trembling only slightly. Yes, Devi was quite impressed at the
woman’s self-control. She made a mental note to remember the bartender for
later. But she wasn’t here to interrupt people’s work. She cooled down her raw
aura of attraction, and sensed the woman’s relief as the tension eased down
some.
The bartender set the drink down, trying not to blush as she
realized the state of her panties. Devi thanked her with another smile that
nearly set her off again. She took the drink, and turned in her seat, leaning
on the counter as she appraised the assembled clientele. She sipped slowly,
letting her gaze linger on a few choice selections.
The very interesting woman was here for female flesh, and
she intended to take one, or maybe even several, of these lovely ladies home
tonight. And as her eyes roamed the room, some promising figures caught her
attention in the far corner. There, at a round table, were a quartet of women.
They were nursing their drinks and commiserating about failed relationships
with men. None of them really swung that way, but one of them had joked that
maybe they should just go to a lesbian bar and try their luck there. With a
nervous laugh, they’d all dared themselves into it. Now that they were here, they
were rather nervous about it, and kept themselves clustered in the corner. At
least as a group, they weren’t getting hit on by yet more disappointments.
Perfect. Devi was always happy to show some disillusioned
girls the light. Men were alright, she supposed, but they couldn’t bring the
same pleasure as another woman’s touch. To be fair, she had the “slight”
advantage of being one of the most powerful women in the universe; no mortal
man, not even a super man, could compete with her in the erotic arts. As an
Omnymphotent, reality itself bent to her will, and much of the time, that will
was focused on sensual pursuits. But unlike her fellow Omnys, Devi always
preferred the Sapphic path. And she was always happy to help fan the flames of
a mortal woman’s sexual curiosity.
Being an omnipotent sexual goddess made it trivially easy to
just flick that switch in their brain. Even the straightest, most asexual woman
alive melted into lesbian desire in Devi’s mere presence. But it was better, as
a bit of foreplay, to ease her chosen playthings into the idea. Devi tamped her
aura down even further, finished her drink, and set the glass down on some cash
that she willed into existence. She left a nice tip, and committed the
bartender to memory. Tomorrow, perhaps, Devi would arrange an off-shift
encounter.
Devi walked gracefully towards the quartet of young women,
smiling as she approached them. A blond, a brunette, a redhead, and a noirette.
A lovely little rainbow. “Good evening, ladies. Mind if I join you? You’re looking
a bit lonely over here.”
Lacy, the brunette, laughed. “There’s four of us.”
Devi chuckled. “Forgive me, I heard you all talking. You’re
finding it frustrating, dealing with men?”
The redhead, Jane, swallowed a bit nervously. “A bit.” She
glanced around. “I dunno if… we’re ready to… you know…”
Devi gave her a sly look. “You’re curious, at least.”
“Y-yeah.” Jane blushed and looked down at her drink.
Lacy frowned. “Um… sorry. You’re very pretty but…”
“But you think you’re not really into that sort of thing,”
said Devi. She nodded sagely. “I understand. But I can assure you, you’re
missing out.” She glanced around the table, taking each of them in. “Are none
of you truly curious?”
The blond, Maddie, squirmed a bit in her seat. “Well...
maybe a little bit… but…” she shared a glance with the others. “Sorry, even if
it was more than a little, we, uh kind of came here to commiserate, you know?
Maybe the wrong place for it, but it’d be kind of lame if one of us went off to
get some right now.”
Devi’s dark eyes glanced over them all. “I can accommodate
more than one, I assure you.”
Tina, the noirette, laughed. “I’m sorry, but are you, like,
hitting on all of us at once?”
Devi gave her a calmly authoritative look. “I don’t hit on
girls. I make an offer, and they either take it, or they regret not giving me a
chance. So here’s my offer. Give me one night to show you all what you’re
missing.”
The four shared another glance. Devi was stunningly
gorgeous, but she was just one woman.
Tina looked at her skeptically. “So, what, you going to do
us one at a time, or are you expecting us to have a five way?” She motioned to
the others. “Cause I don’t know about them, but my Girls Gone Wild days ended
when I graduated college.”
Maddie nodded. “Yeah, I love you all, but not, like, that way.”
Devi’s sly smile returned. “We shall see.”
Jane piped up. “Maybe another time, alright?” Despite her
words, Devi could sense some interest, but she was too shy to give it voice.
That suited Devi just fine. A single spark was all it would
take. With a subtle nudge of her power, the omnipotent woman set the ball
rolling in their minds. Over the next three days, they would keep thinking of
her. They would dream of her. They would start to fantasize about her. If,
after three days, they still resisted, then Devi would let them go. She’d let
herself slip from their minds, and leave them to the frustrations of men. If,
however, they gave in, and saw the wisdom in her offer, she would give them the
blessing of Sapphic truth.
“Very well. I shall leave you my card.” Before they could
decline, Devi set a card on the table. None of the women had seen her pull it
out from anywhere. Devi then spread her fingers, and the card slid aside to
reveal three more copies beneath. The women blinked as she pushed one towards
each of them.
They were plain white business cards, with a single word, “DEVI”
written in reflective red ink. Each woman picked up the card, turned it over,
and saw the artistically rendered outline of a curvy nude woman drawn in the
same red ink.
“When you decide, pray to me, and I will show you the way.” For
a moment, all four women were distracted by the card. Then Tina rolled her eyes
and opened her mouth to make a smart-ass comment to the strange woman.
Except she was gone. The quartet blinked and jumped in
surprise as they realized the woman had simply vanished.
Jane was the first to speak. “What the fuck was that?”
Maddie swallowed hard. Something seemed to be occurring to
her, an unshakeable dawning that seemed part way between anticipation and
dread. “Um, hey, let’s, um, let’s get out of here, okay? And throw these cards
away.”
Lacy looked to her friend. “What’s the rush?”
Maddie shook her head. “I think this was dumb, is all. We’re
not lesbians, we’re kinda just being idiots coming here just because we’re
jaded on men, you know?”
Jane was glancing around the club, trying to spot the
strange woman. “Was that lady a magician or something? How did she do that?”
“And what did she mean by pray to her?” said Tina.
“Nothing!” said Maddie insistently. “Just throw the cards
away.”
“Okay, okay.” Feeling uneasy, the four women finished their
drinks, paid the happy-looking bartender, and headed home. They fully intended
to throw the cards in the trash. But when they tried, they hesitated. There had
just been something about the tall Indian woman. Even Maddie, the most
insistent, couldn’t quite bring herself to do it.
Without telling the others, each kept their copy of the
strange card.
***
Jane broke first. She woke up in the middle of night,
playing with herself and calling Devi’s name. Lacy managed to last until noon
the next day, giving herself a quick rub during her lunch break. Tina made it
to the second night, before binging lesbian porn with her favorite vibrator.
Maddie almost made it the three days, not that she’d been
aware of the deadline. If she had, maybe she’d have grit her teeth and fought
all the harder to resist temptation until the rising urges abated. But in the
end, she’d given in, as Devi filled her thoughts.
The blond had suspected her. She’d seen rumors, read
reports, in obscure corners of the internet, of salacious supernatural
encounters. She hadn’t known how to explain it to her friends in a way they’d
believe though. But most importantly, despite her worries, even without Devi’s
little thought-spell, a part of her had still been tempted by the idea.
And thus, all four were successfully ensnared. As they
prayed to her, Devi sent a psychic notion that they should all meet at the
lesbian bar again that night, gathering at the same table. Devi wasn’t there
when they arrived, but the moment they sat down, the four vanished from the
world.
***
They reappeared in a large bedroom half a world away,
already naked, and bound the wall by soft ropes. Devi stood tall before them.
Before the four women could even register what had happened, the Omnymphotent
woman’s aura of lust surged through them.
The women cried out inhuman arousal bloomed within them. Within
seconds, they were moaning and writhing, tears in their eyes from the intensity
of their need. They were on their knees, unable to keep standing, held up only
by the soft ropes that restrained their arms. A seemingly endless flow of feminine
fluid drooled from their pussies, until they were each kneeling in a puddle of
their own liquid desires. Their clits and nipples were as stiff as humanly
possible, their eyes glassy and rolled back, their mouths gaping as they panted.
As Devi let her eyes feast on each woman, building up her
own anticipation, the four shivered and cried out, their hips bucking fiercely.
Just being near the sexual goddess and being the focus of her lascivious gaze
was all it took to trigger an orgasm; their lust and need to be touched, their
need for relief, was so raw, they came just from the sheer excitement!
Devi allowed them the little release. A few mini-orgasms
kept their poor, mortal brains from overheating too far, too fast. And girls,
unlike boys, had no refractory period to worry about. Not that such things were
a concern for an Omnymphotent anyway, but it was one less little detail to
account for when seeking entertainment from mortal flesh.
Devi stepped back from the women, and settled herself onto a
large, silk-clad bed. She spread her long legs and beckoned them forward. The
silken straps vanished, and they collapsed forward, catching themselves with
their hands. Devi purred at the trembling beauties. “Whichever one of you
reaches me first gets to eat me out.” She spread her legs, and flexed her power
just the slightest bit against them. All four girls shrieked in pleasure as
they came, hard, at the thought of
pleasing their new Goddess. There were four small splashes as they squirted
from the force of their climaxes.
Devi chuckled. Alright, that was more than enough of that.
No need to spoil her little darlings this much. With a thought, she sealed
their orgasms away. Now, no matter how badly they needed it, no matter how much
stimulation they received, even from the touch of their goddess, the four women
would be unable to orgasm. If they wanted any more relief from the sensual,
terrible, sexual pressure, they would have to earn it.
The redhead Jane was the first to get moving, crawling on
her hands and knees until she reached the bed, then pushed herself up with raw
determination. She got as far as Devi’s feet before she curled into a ball on
the end of the bed and wailed. Pleasure ripped through her core, and she
couldn’t even stay up on her hands and knees. But now, she couldn’t cum, and
the pleasure didn’t pause for even a moment.
Devi tsked at her.
Her divine aura of lust was barely at a trickle! Mortals were just too fragile.
Jane was pushed aside as Maddie and Lacy, the blond and brunette, struggled up
after her. They glared at one another as they crawled forward, neck and neck in
their slow, stumbling race. Maddie reached out and clasped Devi’s foot. She
shook as though she was having a seizure, letting out a choked gasp, and rolled
off to the other side, writhing as pleasure speared through her. She bucked and
cried as she rode the razor’s edge of climax, unable to go over.
The brunette managed to lean down and kiss Devi’s toes. She
grit her teeth and shuddered as a pleasure equal to all the sex she’d ever
experienced combined tore through her like a sensual tidal wave. But somehow,
she held on. Sheer determination, or desperation, or utter madness forced her
forward, lunging until her shoulders were even with Devi’s knees. She
collapsed, craning her neck up, extending her tongue as far as she could
stretch it, before she started uncontrollably bucking against the mattress,
lost in the sensations of supernatural ecstasy thrumming through her body.
Tina, the noirette, was smart. She used Lacy’s body as a
buffer, crawling over her and laying atop her, mashing her competitor’s face
down into the mattress between Devi’s thighs. With a final thrust of her body, she
managed to fasten her lips upon Devi’s clit. She screamed into her Goddess’s
pussy as her whole body writhed on top of the other girl. Her crotch gushed,
drenching her friend’s ass and back, but neither even noticed through the
intense sensations.
Devi cupped a hand behind Tina’s head and urged her to lick.
Guided mostly by Devi’s own will, her mouth moved as if by instinct, while the
rest of her body was blasted by wave after wave of brain-melting euphoria.
Devi was already grooving on the sexual high of all four
women, experiencing all of their hyper-enhanced pleasures and insanely
over-clocked arousal all at once. That, more than the base mechanical stimulation
of the girl’s licking, is what truly drove her over the edge to make her cum.
For an Omnymphotent, though, the four girls’ combined sexual torment was a mere
foreplay tickle; her own orgasm barely registered as a quickie.
But it was enough for her to back off a bit. Devi was an
overwhelming mistress, but she was not entirely unrelenting. She eased down her
sexual aura to virtually nothing, and with a thought, undid the orgasm block.
All four girls came with such force, the jerking of their hips would have
cracked their spines if Devi hadn’t prevented it. Their fluids utterly drenched
the bed, more liquid than their bodies could have held, if Devi wasn’t keeping
their reservoirs topped off.
Devi let them fall unconscious, vanishing to spare them her
overwhelming touch. She gave them a minute to rest; she wasn’t nearly done with
them, but it wouldn’t do to completely shatter them so soon.
Exactly one minute later, the girls jolted awake. They felt
refreshed, as if they’d just slept a full night. Their bodies weren’t even a
bit sore from the bone-cracking climaxes they’d just received. They looked at
each other in a bit of a daze, wondering where the new Goddess had gone. For a
moment, Jane’s lips quivered, and she looked a bit afraid. And then all four yelped
as several arms came right up out from the mattress below and pulled them down
into it. The four vanished from the world as Devi pulled them into another.
***
They were floating in a airy void filled with a light pink mist.
There was no obvious light source, but they could see the pink cloudscape, and
each other, perfectly well. The four girls swallowed hard as they tried to
orient themselves in the weightless expanse.
Devi appeared between them, and the four found their bodies
turned to face her, anchored to her like the moon faced the Earth.
Jane was the first to speak. “Wait! Stop! Please! This is…
this is too much!”
And then she was silenced by a kiss from their goddess. Devi
just appeared in her arms, fully pressed up against her, their lips already
locked together. The redhead melted against her, her thoughts and worries
banished by Devi’s touch.
The other three likewise swooned as Devi embraced them as
well. There were now four of her, one for each girl, and they were absolutely
helpless against her simple embrace. When she let up the kiss, each girl gasped
for breath, limp in Devi’s arms.
Devi gently stroked Jane’s hair. “I’m sorry, pet. I came on
a little strong. But you did say you wanted this.” The redhead mumbled
assentingly and nodded weakly. She’d been the quickest to call for her, after
all.
“Good,” their Goddess continued. “Because I want this, and once I’m committed to
something, I see it through to the end. And right now, I’m committed to having
a good time with you four. Do you understand?”
The four half-moaned, half-whimpered, trembling in her arms.
Of course they wanted this. They wanted her touch more than they even wanted to
live! They just hadn’t understood how powerful she was, how truly blessed they
were to have been chosen. They were so fragile, so absolutely insignificant in
the face of such a wondrous being. Devi smiled. The her that held Lacy said,
“Now, now, don’t sell yourselves short. It’s my fault. I like to test a
mortal’s limits while they’re fresh and unassisted. But with a little bit of
power…”
All four women felt a hard jolt to their bodies. And then,
with a start, they realized they could focus again! They blinked, and each gripped
their Devi strongly, looking up at her startled. Their Goddess’s touch no longer
felt like it would kill them with pleasure! Or rather, it did—somehow it was
just as powerful a sensation as before—but their bodies could actually stand
it! Their minds didn’t nearly disintegrate from sensation overload on contact!
Devi winked at them and grinned. “Temporary, of course.
Wouldn’t do to leave you half-numb to the world when I’m done with you. But for
now, we can make love for real.”
That was a bit of a lie. The only other women who could
possibly make love to Devi going all out were her fellow Omnymphotents. But
that was a whole other level of experience that even her own current body
couldn’t withstand, and it wasn’t quite the same as playing with human flesh.
In some ways, sex with an enhanced mortal could be just as satisfying as the chaotic
whirl of erotic energy that she and her fellow Omny’s dissolved into when they
fucked.
“Wow, this is so great! Thank you!” Maddie crushed her lips
against Devi’s. The other three didn’t even need to voice their appreciation,
immediately setting to running their hands over Devi’s other bodies, giving her
deep kisses, which she eagerly returned.
Devi still couldn’t help but cheat a little. Each of her
bodies grew two extra sets of arms, the better to grope and clutch her mortal
partners. The four women just rolled with it, moaning and gasping as Devi
clutched their asses, squeezed their breasts, and caressed their thighs all at
once.
Devi knew what each girl liked. For Maddie, she used her
upper arms to grip and pin back her arms. She then reached down with her lower
arms and grabbed and spread the girl at the knees. The blond writhed, but even
with her now enhanced body, Devi’s strength was unyielding. Effectively pinning
her, she then used her middle arms to attack! With one hand, she tickled the girl’s
stomach and sides, while her other hand slipped three fingers into her pussy,
steadily thrusting them into the girl. The blond laughed and shrieked as she
was tickled and finger-fucked, clashing pleasures mingling in her body. Despite
her enhancements, Maddie was shooting towards orgasm again, even as she fought
to escape the tickles!
For Jane, Devi wrapped her legs and all six arms around her,
squeezing her tightly, and rubbing her pussy roughly against the redhead’s.
Devi stiffened her own clit into a firm, ridged nub and made it vibrate,
stimulating the mortal’s clit better than any sex toy could. Jane clutched and
bucked in Devi’s inhuman grip, sharply gasping with every thrust of Devi’s
hips.
Tina, Devi simply ran her hands all around her body, caressing
every nook and curve with expert traces, seeking out the sensitive girl’s many
erogenous zones. She was a total hair trigger it turned out, able to cum just
from being massaged in the right spots. Devi found and carressed each of these
spots, using the perfect rhythm to have the girl trembling in multiple
climaxes!
And finally Lacy, the toughest of them, liked to be handled
rough. Devi turned her around, and with two hands, she pinned the brunette’s
arms behind her. With two others, she shoved the girl down by her shoulders,
and with the third set, she gripped her hips, locking the girl in a bent over
position. Then, from between her legs, Devi grew a penis as large as her own
forearm, the head as wide as her closed fist.
Devi eased the prodigious organ into the brunette’s dripping
pussy. Lacy’s eyes widened until they nearly popped out of her skull, and her
mouth gaped in a rattling shriek. She struggled and writhed and kicked as the
oversized cock pushed its way deep inside, deeper than should even be possible.
She felt for a moment like the cock was going to stab right up into her chest!
She couldn’t even draw breath for another scream! She was so filled up, she was
going to explode!
And it felt good! Every vice-grip millimeter of progress
made her feel a surge of pleasure that rattled her mind! Not so much that she
was knocked senseless, like before, but enough that any sense of discomfort was
washed away. There was only the pleasure, the pressure, and the sheer shock
that her body could even handle such an intrusion!
And then Devi finally bottomed out, and started pulling
back, leaving Lacy shaking with a deep, hollow ache. She needed that thing back
inside her, all the way back! But Devi’s grip was like titanium shackles. The
brunette couldn’t thrust back, she could only wait for Devi to thrust forward!
And thrust she did. Just before the massive head could pop free, Devi reversed,
powering her hips forward. Her first thrust had been slow, but steady. This was
a full-force stab straight to Lacy’s core! The brunette managed one final
scream before Devi pounded the breath completely out of her!
The girls came. They came and came and came and came and
came and came and CAME, until even their enhanced bodies
couldn’t take it anymore. And with every inhuman orgasm Devi gave them, she
herself experienced a powerful release, as if her partner’s climax was her own.
Hours bled into days into weeks, as Devi ravished the women in all their
favorite ways, and then the ways they’d never dared to try, but which the
Omnymphotent’s divine erotic intuition told her would make them cum down to
their very souls.
The women’s minds dissolved completely into the pleasure,
all sense of time and self lost in divine euphoria…
***
And then the quartet snapped awake in their booth. They
blinked, shaking their heads in a daze. They looked around and noticed they
were back at the lesbian bar where Devi had told them to regroup.
Jane touched her forehead and gripped the table as she tried
to steady herself. Maddie slouched back in her seat, letting out a long breath.
Lacy and Tina leaned into each other.
“Juh… juh… Jesus…” Lacy whispered. “What… what was that…
what the fuck was that?”
They looked around again and noticed nobody seemed to be
reacting to their sudden reappearance. Jane pulled out her phone and checked
the time and date. “Hey… no way… no fuckin’ way…”
“Wh-what?” said Maddie breathlessly. The redhead showed her
the screen, then showed the other two.
“What… what time was it when we got here?” Lacy said, looking
at a clock on the far wall.
Jane dropped her phone in her purse. “We’ve been here two
minutes at most.”
Tina gawked at her. “Two minutes? No way. She was fucking us
for days!” She was having a hard time
parsing what she’d just experienced. Her body felt flushed from the echoes of
sensations she couldn’t even describe, but it all seemed to be fading fast,
like waking up from a dream.
“You all experienced that, too, right?” said Maddie. “That
really happened?”
“Yeah,” said Lacy. “I think so.”
“Oh god,” Maddie whispered. “They’re real. The stories are
real. I can’t fucking believe it.”
The other three girls all traded a look. “Stories?” said
Tina.
“Stuff I read online, a little while ago,” said Maddie. “I
thought it was just some dumb porno roleplay thing. Stories about magical women
just… appearing and fucking people…”
Another traded glance. “And you didn’t say anything?” said
Lacy.
“I… I didn’t… it was just so…” Maddie waved her hands a bit,
trying to come up with the words.
Jane spoke up. “Unbelievable?”
“Yes!”
The redhead nodded, but smiled. “Well… I sure believe it
now!”
The tension broke, and the four laughed. They also couldn’t
help but glance over each other’s bodies. They all felt a stirring in their
loins as they realized a sudden new appreciation for each other.
Jane cleared her throat. “We should… uh… we should get out
of here.”
“Back to my place?” Lacy offered.
“Maybe... maybe just to get some air. I’ll tell the
bartender something came up. Meet you out in the parking lot.”
The other three nodded and quickly filed out. Jane stepped
up to the bar. The bartender gave her a heartwarming smile, and the redhead
felt herself flush a bit. “What’s up, hon?”
She waved to their booth. “Really sorry, we just got here,
but something came up. Um… I don’t think we ordered anything yet, but…”
The bartender smirked. “You don’t think?”
Jane blinked. “Uh… strange night…”
The bartender winked and grinned knowingly. “Been there. If
you gotta go, you gotta. You girls take care, hon.”
“Sure thing. You too!” Feeling a little awkward, the redhead
dashed outside to regroup with her friends. Lacy and Tina were already hesitantly
kissing. Maddie looked at them a bit of a jealous pout, but brightened when Jane
came out. “Jeez, seriously?”
“Oh, just roll with it,” said Maddie, coming up and kissing
her. Jane didn’t fight it. When they broke the kiss, both were looking
lustfully at each other.
“So… my place?” said Lacy.
“After… all that… you’re not sexed out for life?” said Tina.
Lacy grinned. “I feel like I’m just getting started!”
This time, the orgy was a little more sane. The four women
only made love for a couple hours, and their orgasms didn’t threaten to break
them, but by the end, they felt more sexually satisfied than they’d ever felt
with any man. And that was the start of a life-long foursome friendship.
Another well-earned blessing from the Omnymphotent Goddess
Devi.
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