[There's a silence, broken by a stirring of sounds, insects chirping, throaty whistles, rattles and hisses. The whispers amongst them are almost all at the same time, jumbling over each other.]

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[It breaks off suddenly, the cacophany settling into what sounds like something enormous swaying this way and that in a soupy mud.]

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