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Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.


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GUY SMITH The only rats are the ones she brings aboard to play with.
LAUREN MORGENS Have you called the alphas?"

"Yes."

"The rats, too?"

He bristled. "...
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